Doreen's Health And Wellness Journey and Other Things

Category: health

  • Be Safe and Not Sorry

    I woke early, around four Friday morning, with right-side chest pains. I got up, took 3 Tylenol, put a pain patch on, and took my Prednisone and Symbicort inhaler. I was 75% sure I wasn’t having a heart attack, because the Pain was on the right side, but I am no doctor. I didn’t begin…

  • Needles!

    As a child, I wasn’t too fond of getting needles; I remember cringing and pulling back as the doctors gave me my annual vaccines. So as an adult, when I had to inject myself with Enbrel, I wouldn’t say I liked it, and I was not too fond of the methotrexate needles either. I hated…

  • Putting things off…….

    Two thousand and twentySeveral days after I had a talk with myself about my relationship with my father, my sister called to say that our dad was in the hospital. He was having some heart issues. Thank God he had one of those medical alert bracelets because that is what he used to call for…

  • Hoping together!

  • Do you know the triggers?

  • To Take Or Not To Take

    I had a wonderfully calm birthday on the 23rd. At first, I wondered if it would be quiet because the kids were planning something. However, I canceled the gathering when I started feeling ill. I went out for breakfast in the morning, and later that afternoon, I had some long-awaited vegan food. The restaurant didn’t…

  • The Question

    Yes, I know we are All born to die. I genuinely do know this, With all that I have lost. And this very fact is The reason that I wish I had no children, No sisters, No brothers, No nieces, No nephews, No friends, No one to grieve for, No one to suffer for me.…

  • Confused and Frustrated!

    It has been a couple of weeks since I had my Colonoscopy, and I am glad things are okay. The intense pain I felt afterward is what bothered me most about my procedure. I’m no doctor, but I believe my sciatic nerve was aggravated during the procedure. I am not complaining; just stating the probability…

  • Getting Tested: Glaucoma

  • Noways Tired

    I was listening to James Cleveland (Gospel Singer) sing, a favorite of mine. ” I don’t feel noways tired, I come too far from where I started from. Nobody told me the road would be easy, but I don’t believe he brought me this far to leave me”. Amen!