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

MEDICINE: "An Educated Guess". The more specialized the doctor is, the more educated the guess is! The patient is in trouble when the doctor is under the delusion that he knows everything about the problem(s) causing the patient’s illness. The patient enters disaster mode when the doctor is convinced that he knows more about the patient, than the patient does about himself or herself!.. Don't Walk - "Run" away from a doctor who knows "everything"! That's a dangerous person who thinks he/she is God! This person has to be immediately reminded that the position of God has already been filled! This doctor is delusional, narcissistic or dwells in a weird psychosis. In other words, he has problems! Coming into medicine with medical issues, we certainly do not need the doctor's problems. Oh we, patients when dealing with many doctors, we need more than medicine, we need “prayers”! This is especially true when at the mercy ...

Last night, January 23, 2019, I, with a small group from Maplewood Baptist Church, traveled to Cracker Barrel Restaurant in Tewksbury Mass. for a night of dinner and fellowship. The food was appealing, delightful and delicious! My steak was mouthwatering and grilled in exactly the manner I asked for and desired. We all enjoyed our meals that were cooked to order. The prices of our meal orders were reasonable and these meals were also cooked with care and love. We talked, we ate and we enjoyed our pleasingly and delightfully cooked meal by the chefs of Cracker barrel Restaurant. Our server, Mary, worked without stopping wearing a lovely smile and dressed in a pleasing manner. Mary was attentive to every need of myself and everyone in our church group. We enjoyed great food, good conversation in a comfortable and cozy environment of Cracker Barrel Restaurant last night. I, and my friends of our small group from Maplewood Baptist Church, would be privileged, pleas...

Dear Friends, As I gaze out the window of the building I live in, I give thanks to God! Though it is snowy, icy and bitter cold, outside, I’m safe inside a warm home, where I have enough to eat and drink. Though the weather outside is treacherous, unsafe and risky, I drink my coffee with the loving assurance that God has taken care of my needs and of me. It’s 4:35 am and as I ready for the day that God has blessed me with, I surrender this day with my problems, my hopes, my dreams and myself to God! I know with utmost certainty and faith that God has carried me this far. God will continue to be my Strength, my Guide and my Savior today and all the days of my life! So, on thus freezing cold day, as I gaze outside, my eyes become fixated into the heavens. As I park on my over-pillowed couch and cozy comfortable in my warm and safe apartment, I again give thanks to He, who not only created all of creation but, still has the time to bless me today. Thank you, Go...

I am going to be discharged today! I’m going home! The doctors, nurses, Hospital Chaplains, respiratory therapists, primary care assistants, social workers, case managers and everyone involved in my medical care have been nothing short of superb! The hospital staff have showed me compassion, love and gentleness as they presented the treatments and care I received with excellence and distinction! Even in the best of conditions, being sick is not fun. It kind of craps, really craps! I choose to continue my recovery at home. Home: where my friends are, where my stuff is, close to my family and my church and where my heart is, safely tucked away and awaiting my return. I will miss my nurses and everyone but, I will not miss being as sick as I was! Homeward bound, I am! I will close this chapter of my journey and eagerly and enthusiastically open the next chapter of my life! As I now bow in prayer, I thank God for carrying me this far, through a time of sickn...

It’s not an illegal immigrant issue. It’s not a liberal issue. It’s not a conservative issue. It’s not a government issue. It’s not even a wall issue. It’s a people issue! People cannot communicate anymore. People, who are our public servants,   and I emphasize “public servants” are gambling our lives and the lives of others for their own benefit These government servants are not speaking for the benefit of all their constituents and are definitely not capable of compromising! People, like the President, the Senate and Congress get the best health coverage, paid vacations and live an extravagant lifestyle In other words, the “public servants” are living far better than most Americans! And my friends, we are paying for this extravagant lifestyle! The rich in this country own 95% of the wealth of this country. As it is said: “It’s not that the poor cannot be fed, it’s that the rich cannot be satisfied”. It’s similar, if not the same, as an addi...

I have been in the hospital for 4 days. Problems are beginning to be resolved. Symptoms, the symptoms that brought me to the doors of the hospital, are not! I am sleeping most of the time. I am also getting medicine to help my cough, medicine to manage my other symptoms and breathing treatments. The hospital staff have been wonderful! Me, I am not the easiest to deal with when I am sick. You see, when I, like most people when they are sick, my emotions are all over the place. I get annoyed at doctors, especially when all of the doctors ask the same questions, over and over again I’m desperately trying to understand doctors and the mysterious aura about them! I am also taking steps to understand myself! I am determined to get better, with all of the no energy I have! I am giving the doctors and nurses needed information, including my symptoms and medical history to help in making a diagnosis and then, maybe, a cure! For me, there are more questions tha...

I am an inpatient in the hospital where I go for my medical care. I have not been feeling well for some time. Last Friday night, a roller coaster of sickness launched. This roller coaster of symptoms carried me to my doctor’s office, then off to the Emergency Room and subsequently into the hospital. I have been wheezing, coughing, somewhat vomiting, diarrhea + my red blood cell dropped significantly. I have anemia, which is something new. The doctors are going to do more tests hoping to get answers of why my red blood cells count dropped so much and explanations for all the weirdness going on in my body. Needless to say, I have not been feeling well! Love, a sick but hopeful,              Evelyn (Pinto)             December 27, 2018