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

"I WANT TO DANCE!" Dear Friends, I pray all of you are well, rested, healthy, and happy and feel loved! Me, I have been riding, terrified, on the rollercoaster of "Life"! My health hasn’t been as well as I would like it to be. The poor air quality (much of this awful air quality is as a result of the fires burning in Canada), high humidity, the heat, and high pollen counts + my allergies have caused it even more difficult to breathe. My friends, it’s natural and automatic to breathe. When you are struggling to breathe on a continuous basis, it’s beyond frightening. Many people, even people I love, and am acquainted with, and many, many other people have similar struggles with their abilities (or lack of abilities) to breathe. My friends, I am with you and I empathize with you. I do understand, totally. Several other health issues have been surfacing in me. I am struggling with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, SOB, Congestive Heart Failure, Venous Insuf...

  Today is Monday. I have been in the Emergency Department at Mass General Hospital all weekend. I finally was admitted into a hospital bed on a medical floor sometime today. Though a lot could have gone wrong, and some things still didn’t go so well, in this endless plight to get adequate and proper healthcare for my own medical needs and wellness. The hospital staff, on the most part, are outstanding! Coming into the hospital because I couldn’t breathe could be due to many factors. The air quality has been poor, a lot worsening because of those fires in Canada. The hot, the humidity, the high pollen counts as well as my low capacity lung functioning and other respiratory as well as several other serious illnesses has made me neither a happy camper nor a happy patient. Since I arrived on a hospital bed on a medical floor, a lot is looking up. I am still in the midst of fighting the breathing problems and all of the other medical issues that brought me to the hospital...

Dear Friends, I pray all of you are well, rested, healthy, and happy and feel loved! Me, I have been riding, terrified, on the rollercoaster of Life! My health hasn’t been as well as I would like it to be. The poor air quality (much of this awful air quality is as a result of the fires burning in Canada), high humidity, the heat, and high pollen counts + my allergies have caused it even more difficult to breathe. My friends, it’s natural and automatic to breathe. When you are struggling to breathe on a continuous basis, it’s beyond frightening. Many people, even people I love, and am acquainted with, and many, many other people have similar struggles with their abilities (or lack of abilities) to breathe. My friends, I am with you and I empathize with you. I do understand, totally. Several other health issues have been surfacing in me. I am struggling with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Asthma, SOB, Congestive Heart Failure, Venous Insufficiency, Igg, a paralyzed diaphragm in m...

  TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL I was at home, sick with troublesome and worrisome symptoms, symptoms which accelerated with time and were progressively worsening. I was gasping for breath frequently. I would be wiped out doing simple tasks that just a month ago, I did with little effort. Movement and mobility became difficult and required a significantly increased amount of effort and stamina. I tired easily and I needed to rest often. I rested many times throughout the day. I slept for hours after a visit with a friend, after eating a meal in our building’s dining room with my friends and after attempting to accomplish simple tasks. I was also totally exhausted after participating in any activity. All of the things I enjoyed, especially being with my friends, became less frequent because it took so much out of me. It reached the point where even talking, which I have always had a zest for, was my worst enemy, where I was getting increasingly out of breath short...

To my loving family and my dear friends, I am still an inpatient at the hospital I go to for my medical care. I want to thank every one of you for your prayers, kind words, your love and your concern. All of you had sent a light into the midst of being so sick in the hospital. I feel and I know that God has not only been with me in my struggles, my God sees me. I only wish my assigned doctor would honestly talk with me, preferably with visual prompts that I would comprehend better than using words that are confusing, unsettling and weird. I, being a computer geek, follow the only recourse that’s available to me. I go onto my own My Chart account and I read all of my doctor’s, nurses’ and everyone that’s connected with me in this hospital admission, well, I read all of their notes. Then there is this magic tool called “Google” where I research all of the problems that I am said to be plagued with and go on from there. This would not be the optimal way of knowing my own medical condition...