As some of you know, my nephew was in a car wreck a few weeks ago. He was travelling back home from dropping a co-worker off at Ingles on Merrimon Ave. Michael, my nephew, has been through the ringer since this, and I wanted to talk a bit about what has happened and is happening. I will also share somethings that has been bothering me. I have also setup a GoFundMe fundraiser for Michael’s expenses currently and after his discharge. You will see it attached to every page of mine at the bottom.
Sep 18, 2022
The past few weeks has been a roller coaster of triumphs and tragedies. Right now, I’m more focused on the tragedies than the triumphs, but I want to take a few minutes to talk about everything good that has come out of the past.
Sep 4, 2022
I have been struggling with a conflict with my eldest brother for more than a year now. Chris, my eldest brother, stopped any form of communication with me when I had to walk away from a conversation with his husband.
Jul 31, 2022
There have been times where we all need the medical system for help. If you have been through the medical system, it’s great for a lot of things. This brings me to a few things that I have been thinking about writing about, but this last go in the hospital system tipped the brain to want to talk about it.
Jul 3, 2022
Over the last few months I have been in and out of the hospital a lot. So, I’m going to be explaining why I wanted to talk about this… Ambulances Each hospitalization starts with a trip to the ER via ambulance. Why an ambulance? Well, by the time I admit I need help, I’m not able to drive myself. It’s usually because of the amount of pain I’m in. While sometimes the ambulance ride ends up a positive experience (the best you can have in that situation)… Sometimes has been lackluster, at best. Seems like the care factor has been on a steady decline since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Most of the times, I have been delivered to the waiting room instead of actually being cared for. During the ride, they refuse to give any assistance, and the reason I have gotten is that they don’t want to make it worse. I usually ask for pain medication and/or something for the nausea. While I understand the pain medication can make a intestinal blockage worse, and I would completely understand if that’s what I have been experiencing. With the # of times I have been through this, I’m pretty sure I know what to do/expect. Trust would go along way with the patients and the paramedics.
May 28, 2022
It’s ben a while since I have put a post up, and I would like to talk about the things that have been on my mind. Health position: I select this topic first cause I have been going through more health challenges. In short, my gastro intestinal track doesn’t agree with me a lot of the times. I have concluded that I’m not able to figure out what is causing the issues, and I have been seeing several GI offices in the past years. This has been happening for the part 16+ years, and over the years, I have had almost every test executed on me during that time. There was one of the doctors that said I have had more than a million dollars worth of testing on me. Anyways, I have come to have less and less confidence in the health care system. I know they are doing their best, and I’m sure that my case isn’t the run of the mill type of case. I am going to be going under the procedure again this weekend, and my family has super hopeful that the outcome will at least shed more light on the problem.
Apr 10, 2022
3 Month Check in So, it’s been 3 months since I started working, roughly. I started back part time on July 4th (what are the odds), and I went to full time 3 weeks after that. Since then… it’s been pretty good getting back into the grove… Then comes the learning curve that has been set upon me. With the amount of time I was gone, just about every aspect of the job has changed. Then put on top of that, having a new position and new scope, yea, it’s been a lot of learning.
Oct 24, 2021