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

Today, a welcome surprise came to my door. Monica had called me today. Monica and her children, Lucia, Joseph, Theresa, Miriam and Grace surprised me, waiting outside my building for me to come outside and spend time with them. I taught all of these children in Religious Education of the Catholic Church for several  years. Lucia was 3 years old and Joseph was just a baby when I began teaching these eager and curious young children. I knew the 4 younger children since they were babies. Lucia, as I previously said, was 3 years old! The children are: Lucia, Joseph, Theresa, Miriam and Grace! I taught all of these children, I spent time with all of them and I especially, loved them! My dear friends and family, I still do love these wonderful, amazing and loving young people and I always, always will! The same goes for my caring, concerned and loving friend, Monica and her husband, Carlo, the mother and father of these remarkable children. Love and with sincerity, gratitude and prayer...

Dear Friends and Family, I pray all of you are well, healthy, rested and loved. My dear friends, I’m home! I was discharged on Thursday afternoon and returned home later that day. I had decided that I could not fight the diseases in my body and also fight for proper healthcare at the same time. I told my attending physician I wanted to go home. This doctor honored this request and sent me home! I’ve been a patient at Mount Auburn Hospital for approximately 14 years. There have been doctors at Mount Auburn Hospital who have saved my life, have made my medical conditions better, have caused the betterment of my life and have placed me on “The Path to Wellness”. There have been people, and there are still people I know at Mount Auburn Hospital, who have made my life better, turned a negative experience of being in the hospital into something a bit more positive, have gone beyond what their job calls for to help me and have shown concern, love and devotion in a place that, many times, are ...

  Dear Friends and Family, I pray all of you are well, safe, healthy and rested. Me, I am stable for the moment. Yesterday was a “Close To A Hospitalization Day”. I have been weak, very fatigued, suffering with breathing problems, chills, headaches, body aches, deep and severe congestion, etc.… I did test negative for Covid 19 yesterday. Basically, I have been feeling poorly, plagued with these worrisome symptoms. Yesterday, I had an emergency virtual appointment with my Primary Care Physician. My doctor had known this sickness that had been plaguing me for some time. This illness had been getting progressively worse as time rolled on. At this point, knowing how sick I had been in the past and knowing how sick I was at this point, she exercised the appropriate measures. Yesterday, my primary care physician prescribed the appropriate medications and treatments that would help me. And it was yesterday, I began an antibiotic, Prednisone, a new inhaler to enhanc...

  Good Morning, my Friends!                                                  I pray that this Wednesday finds you well, healthy, rested and safe. My friends, I want to thank all of you for reaching out to me and displaying your concern for me and, also, for your many prayers. Thank you to those who offered their friendship, genuine friendship, your love and to those who offered to visit me, bring meals, care packages (I love care packages) and do everything you all do that have so wonderfully helped me. I am so utterly touched. Reading all of your comments, prayers and words of love and support has meant the world to me, touching me deep into my heart and soul. From the depths of my heart + with my sincerity and love, “Thank you!” M...

  I don’t remember feeling so alone, sad, sick and depressed. I am sensing how I’m placed on this Earth to just go through my life, feeling that I can’t depend on most people, especially the ones that could and should be there for me when I really need them. I also feel that with many, love goes only so far. People can love you as long as they have time to love you and/or they don’t have to go out of their way. Yes, at this time in my life I have experiences many losses, people I thought I could not live without, ever. My mother, the most wonderful woman, full of love and spunk, passed away at the end of October. I am still grieving her loss, and the emptiness that was once love, my mother’s love, which had grown and nourished through the years, is now gone and to put it simply, no more. I telephoned my mother at least once a day. I still find myself dialing her number, realizing minutes later, she’s not there. I visited my mother whenever I could. Many times I brough...

  Dear Family and Friends, With sadness in my heart and grief filling my soul, I tell you now of the passing away of my precious sister, Roberta Marquis. My sister, Roberta, passed away on Friday night, April 1, 2022 with our family at her bedside, at the hospital. The reality and finality of this tragic and personal event hasn’t fully hit me yet. I was with my sister, Roberta, at her bedside, in the hospital. I held my sister’s hand tightly from the time I arrived at the hospital until she drew her last breath, and after. My family was there as well. My sisters, my brother, her children and other family were faithfully at Roberta’s bedside. Some of us stayed until the end and well after. My sister, Roberta, was a woman of strength, courage and faith. Roberta believed in the promises of God and with love and joy in her heart, accepted Jesus as her Savior, Roberta loved her husband, Doug, and was devastated when he died just a few weeks ago. My sister loved her f...

  Dear Friends, Thank you for all your prayers, for my sister, my family and for me! I’m grateful to all of you for your concern, your prayers and your love! Please my friends, I would like to ask if you can pray for me again. In addition to my chronic symptoms, I have been sick for 3-4 months with pain, weakness, extreme fatigue, low energy and difficulty with mobility. These symptoms have increased significantly, week by week, day by day. The extreme fatigue is, now, out of control. I sleep through the night and sleep most of the day as well. Anybody that knows me knows me as an energetic woman, who never stops and barely sleeps through the night, and rarely did I sleep during the day. This is a drastic change in me, a change consistent with different illnesses. Much of my blood work, done at the hospital that I go for my medical care and treatment, has come back to be abnormal. My primary care physician and my other doctors are working diligently to find a ...