ME-as I go through this zany, marvelous, difficult experience called: "LIFE"!

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow  Good Morning Family & Friends!  Did you ever have one of those days? Yesterday seemed like a bad day for me and for many of us.  It was also a completely crazy day!  Nothing, "nothing" went right! Absolutely nothing turned out the way it should have! People were on edge. Tempers were short. Misinformation was communicated to people who had little choice but to "go with it!"  People said words to other people that they should have never said. People hurt people! Words became Weapons! My dear friends, yesterday was the past! Today is a brand new day, a day of new opportunities. Today is a day to forgive, a day to give graciously accept apologies. Today is day to make things right again! It's time to let go of that heavy baggage which has been weighing us down for so, very long! Time to "Let It Go!" Today I am going meet others with my finest smiles! Laughter will freely spring out of me.0 My words will be sweet and...

  My name is Evelyn This is my Story! This is my Truth! I had the grave misfortune of needing emergency care and eventually being hospitalized for a life-threatening bacterial infection! I also had Sepsis! This bacterial infection had been relentlessly and viciously attacking my body. Upon arriving to the Emergency Room, I was placed onto a gurney with high fevers of 103 and rising still and extremely high blood pressure with a high and rapid heart rate. Before the Emergency Room, while still at home, my blood pressure and heart rate were dangerously high and alarming. On a hot and humid summer day, I was freezing! Despite multiple layers of shirts, sweaters, pants and jackets with a huge pile of blankets covering me, I was still freezing cold and with a strange inability to get and feel warm. Knowing my body well + reliving previous experiences of sicknesses and pneumonias, I realized that time was was of the essence and that I needed to get to the hospital immediately! The ambula...

Dear Friends, Family and Church Family, I pray all of you are well, safe, healthy, happy and loved!  Me, I have been experiencing brutal breathing episodes, especially these past few weeks.  Breathing is automatic! When a person experience difficulties breathing, it's life threatening and scary! With breathing being automatic to most humans, when I, or anyone who endures episodes when I, or them are struggling to breathe, it's life threatening and beyond frightening! During the early hours of this morning (Tuesday- Wednesday), I awoke not being able to breathe or catch my breath. I struggled trying to breathe in what seemed like days. I know it was not days but, minutes, long, long moments, much longer than I, or anyone could have realized. I remember as I feebly was attempting to call 911, the night staff entered my apt.  This knowledgeable, kind person gave me the medications I needed while doing what he could to¹ place me at ease and calmer. The breathing (or lack of ...

Helping People, Helping Me I understand Healthcare is in a fragile state of indefinite now.  I do comprehend the stress healthcare professionals can be experiencing.  Understand this: I live with chronic illnesses (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, Pulmonary Hypertension, Congestive Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Chronic Debilitating Pain) and more.  When I come for help it's because I do need help . As a person I need what you already have which is to treat me which means to: Dignity  Respect  Honesty Integrity I am a person first! I do need help "Yes"! I do not need nor do I want my credibility to be continually at question! I do not want healthcare professionals or anyone else to rob me of my independence! I want to do all I am capable of doing! I want to decide for myself my needs, my treatments, my care and my medications and decide, along with my doctor(s), the manner I which my medications and treatments to be taken! Do not rob me of deciding...

Dear Fr iends & Family,  Ohhhh, I have been feeling so sick for so, so,very long, over 2 weeks to be exact!  What began as a stomach bug over 2 weeks ago has worsened into something worse and I don't know, much less understand what this illness has emerged into! Even a short run on antibiotics did little to help me. This infection, virus (or whatever it is) has affected my respiratory system, my lungs functions and the as made most of my many other bodily functions! I am in severe pain everywhere, all over my body.  I am nauseous, and I still cannot tolerate most foods!  I have been eating a bland diet, if I eat at all.  I am forcing fluids, when I can.  I cannot identify what exactly is going on in me but, I do know that this is not my idea of fun. This illness that has shaken, twisted and has kidnapped my body has left me in a state which little similarity to my normal self!  I realize countless others are sick with the flu, COVID, a respira...

Today I going to have surgery.  My dear friends, I ask for your prayers on this Tuesday as I travel to the hospital to have this needed surgery.  I find that many human beings, children and many adults and both young and older, find themselves in the midst of these challenging and troubling health battles. I, and countless others, live lives in the indefinite and with endless courage we fight every moment to survive! We battle every moment despite the unending pain, the sacrifices, the sleepless nights, the loneliness and so much more! We, as people take hold of the meaning of courage, resilience and pain! We show the world what strength and bravery really is! It is 9:26 am and I am sitting in my recliner, in my apt and find my just wondering... I look out my window as I allow my mind to wander. My troubled, overloaded brain aches! I pray! As I pray, my mind wanders into the Heavens... I walk on and I reach the Sanctuary of the Most High. My mind continues on it's Heavenly P...