Category: health

  • Free, Live, Peace

  • Help Me!

    (Acknowledging the end of Mental Health Awareness Month) What’s wrong with me tonight?I’m lying here in my bed, trying to sleep,And a deep feeling of hopelessnessIs trying to surround me. What is it?The parasites-I can sense them swarming inslow movements through my being!They are attempting to attack me, my space,And my intellect.What is it?Lord, I…

  • Ask for Help!

  • 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!

  • 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…