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"Please God, not on April Fools Day"...... Apr 5, 2008 1:36 pm
Mood: happy, 796 Views
Being involved with human doctors and nurses has been very trying these past few days.

It seemed my well meaning doctor would call just as I was going to sleep. He told me I had a blood infection and it was making my white blood cells go up to a leathal point.

He begged me to go to the hosital. After being recently released from the other hospital which was a house of horrors to me, I said NO.

For he was demanding that I go, my son said Mom you've got to make the choice. I thought about who God is in this situation. I realized that the Holy Spirit lives within me. No mtter what the doctors may know, God has all the information. But for a brief moment in the physical sense, I had to look at my own mortality. I felt pressured on all sides, but I stuck to God's wisdom and power in the situation. I made my choice.

For a couple of days my doctor had me come in for a number of blood tests. The frustration was, I had an infection and they could not define it's source.

Friday I had to once again go for lab work. I remembered that I had not asked God and my angels to help me. In my mind they are constatnly there, but I forget I have to ask for the help.

Friday morning I asked God and my angels to clearly reveal the source of the infection. I knew without a doubt that they would not fail me.

I had the tests and waited for a call from my doctor. He was very excited. He told me I had NO infection at all and my white blood count was on it's way down.

Before all this transpired, as I was laying in bed I asked God not to let me pass on April Fools Day, because it would just be too humiliating. When I woke up April 2nd I sighed a sigh of relief.

Just remember this, Medical science has come a long way for which we can be grateful. But they're far from all the knowledge they still need. God is the great physician. He has the ultimate answers and will rule in the situation if we let Him. Love, Pollyanna
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My life feels like a squirrel cage...... Apr 3, 2008 12:03 pm
Mood: good, 1000 Views
There just aren't enough words to put it into a simple blog. It's like I'm on a roller coaster that's spinning upside down and backward in solid darkness. But I thank God for each new day. I love you all. Love, Pollyanna
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KATZ!!! Mar 30, 2008 12:26 pm
Mood: annoyed, 751 Views
The second day of my hospital stay I was placed in a room with a woman who was hard of hearing, wouldn't wear her hearing aid and had to have to TV turned up very loud.

She was really a fine woman. Had lots of friends drop in, family that showed up every night and a fairly interesting life story at 85 years old.

Everything went fine until the time I go to sleep. Normally I don't have the TV running 24/7. So I laid there and tried to think of all the reasons it was okay for her to have the TV screaming at both of us.

My heart understood, but my ego had it's limits.

When you're in the hospital to get well, all you don't need is that extra stress.

I made it through the first night. By the second night I called the nurse and told her to het me out of the room NOW !!!

I was put in a room by myself. The TV was off and I was grateful.

Later in the night they wheeled in this 92 year old woman who had to be a lovely lady.

They put a diaper on her. Then when the lights were out she started asking for my help to do this and do that. She thought she'd lost her purse. So she was ranting and crying over that.

She kept trying to talk to me. In my insane frame of mind I told her I didn't want to talk. "wha'd ya say?", I repeated, I don't want to talk. "Wha'd ya say?" Finally I did a very un- pollyanna thing. I took a deep breath and shouted "Gawddammit I don't want to talk, I don't want to help you and I want you to leave me alone!"

Staff started to come into the room wondering what the ruckus was about. I told them I was there because I was sick. I was not one of the paid staff and I wanted her to leave me alone.

It seemed she had gotten the message. Next thing I know she's standing at the end of my bed asking me to help her. I couldn't believe it. She too was hard of hearing. I told her no. She said you mean you want help me? I just couldn't believe the whole thing.

I pushed the nurse call button and when the nurse came I told her the woman needed to go to the bathroom very badly. The nurse said, she had a diaper on, and has just forgotten.

That was fine, but it went on half the night. AGAIN I am so glad to be home. Love, Pollyanna
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A star in the making....... Mar 29, 2008 10:45 am
Mood: cheerful, 566 Views
Hi!!! I've written encouragements and welcome back messages, but what a "charge" receiving them is. Thank you soooo much.

Well, little by little I'm getting my sanity back. Apparently I had a bladder infection with none of the symptoms. No burning or pain at all. What an experience it was.

My first night at the hospital, I was led to a bed on the 6th floor. It was a different kind of room. The walls between my room and the staff area were glass. There was a little curtain to pull across the "wall" to give me some privacy.

I was put in this single room with a bed out in the middle of the room and a "kermode" next to the bed.

As tired as I was I asked what the purpose of it all was. There were two male RNs and one female LVN. I was told that my purpose was to eat and drink and then use the kermode. I was told there were cameras in the room so they would know at any given time what I was doing. The first night wasn't so bad with the female nurse.

I woke up about 3 a.m. and tried to assess exactly what was happening. When I realized that 2 male nurses would be watching me via TV monitors, I began to feel just frankly naked. I felt totally embarassed. It had a humiliation about it that can hardly be described. Especially the use of the kermode part.

I hardly knew what to do while under the scruitiny of the cameras. Should I smile? Wave "howdy do", what? But all that seemed silly. Yet being on the kermode and on camera was a little silly too. Anyway, sharing what happened is a kind of therapy for me. Thank you for putting up with it, smiles.

I'm sure glad to be home. Love, Pollyanna
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Good morning everybody...... Mar 28, 2008 10:03 am
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As you may know I was in the hospital. I was released to come come yesterday.

I'm extremely fatigued.

This past week in the hospital was one of the worst experiences I've ever had,. It was like being in house of horrors. If going to the hospital does anything, it thouroughly gives you a strong motivation to do whtever you can do to stay out of there.

I was there a whole week. You couldn't take showers, had the barest minimum access to clean your hands, especially after the potty thing. But not being able to sudds up all over and wash my hair and just feel really clean was the worst of being there.

Also they managed to put me in with women who couldn't hear, but wanted to talk. They wanted the TV on way past when I normally go to sleep.

Then the beds!!! Iyiyiyi! Pillows like bags of sand.

Tubes attached just long enogh to let you get all tangled up.

It was a nightmare. I don't ever want to go back again, that's for sure. Love Pollyanna
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I am in mourning....... Mar 11, 2008 5:49 pm
Mood: sad, 1028 Views
Marshall passed on 3/17/05, but it was a Thursday then.

I didn't know how this week would go.

As I was crying, I got a quick vision. I'm no longer leaving him behind, rather, I am now on my way to him. Love, Pollyanna
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"Listen to the birdies sing, listen to the birdies sing"..... Mar 10, 2008 3:21 pm
Mood: amused, 600 Views
Today promised to be a very beautiful one. We needed to run some errands and we put the top down on the little car.

It becomes a total toy with the top down. The breeze blowing through our hair and the warm sunshine with perfectly blue skies.

I went along for the ride actually. It is supposed to get to 83 degrees today. Toward the end of our trip, I commented that I would appreciate a place where I wouldn't have to face the sun.

Quickly he pulled up under a tree that had long spindly branches with clumps of leaves at the end of each one.

After he jumped out of the car I began hearing these happy little birdling sounds. I looked up and most of the tree was holding a flock of blackbirds with yellow eyes. They had obviously stopped there for a little rest and refreshment.

As I surveyed their proximity to my car, I looked up at their happy little behinds and my son had taken the keys. I began to pray.....my little car was a perfect bullseye for the most competitive ones.

Oh well, I didn't get bombed, and the car will need a little TLC. But it is a glorious day anyway. Smiles, Pollyanna
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The Celtic Woman Mar 9, 2008 9:45 am
Mood: beautiful, 630 Views
I am of Scotch/Irish decent. I am also German.

For most of my life I have grown up hearing abut how hateful the "White" people are. It has become a regular drum beat that somehow white people are the cause of much poverty and shame among those other than white.

We dare not have a "White Pride" day must less a month.

I have heard that the Caucasian people are becoming a minority in the world and also here in the US.

As a white woman I personally have spent my life treating people with respect and people of other races have been best friends.

The white woman helped to blaze the trail across this country to pave the way for what we all share today.

White women broke the old concept that women belonged in the home. They got their chance in WWII, when work needed to be done and the men were off fighting the war.

White women paved the way to equal rights and the right to vote. We have raised our children and taken on the husbandly role of supporting a household on our own.

Because of white women in this country, I was allowed to work at a job that has provided a retirement benefit to really live on. My husband was not able to leave anything for me.

Lastly, there are no really "white" people, it's a concept. There are no "black" people. I have never seen a person who is really black.

There are good people and bad people. There are people who are hard working and have goals. Then there are those who live a "woe's me" kind of life.

I am proud to be a white woman in the United States of America. Love, Pollyanna
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Things just don't seem right..... Mar 8, 2008 10:20 am
Mood: contemplative, 635 Views
This morning I got my usual coffee and went into the living room to watch the morning news.

But this morning I asked myself if I really wanted to start the day with all that trauma and doom. The TV stayed off.

I'm finding that as the techical improvements are occuring to TV viewing, the material provided for our entertainment is just depressing trash. There are more murder centered programs than anything else. I for one am sick of it. I don't care for sports, I wish I did but I don't.

The politics related to the candidates running for president are boring. I feel that John McCain is already in place to take the helm of the presidency. The only problem I see with that, is it will be the same-o same-o.

People are working far too hard today, and getting far too little for their efforts. Everyone needs to have a "job" even retired folks. It keeps our hands busy and our minds occupied. But there isn't enough private time to enjoy the family and enjoy our country.

Schools have made it law for students to attend school. But anyone with half an eye can see it's not about the students, it's about the money that goes to the school district and funnels down through people teaching etc. Some schools do not have sufficient tools for the children and now shootings are taking place on campuses.

I believe that children should be able to take their classes on a TV station designed for their individual grades.

I believe that gang members should be viewed as terrorists and treated as such.

Gang members need to be placed in a military training program and sent to where our best are giving up their eyes, their limbs, and their mental health. If these gang members really want to kill, let them kill where killing is mandatory.

Our prisons are bulging at their sides with criminals who's expertise could be used. So they join the gang of the Marines, Army, or the navy. Let them kill but direct it in a positive (?) way.

Guess I'm way out there today.....Love, Pollyanna
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