Inconvenient Truth!

Last evening I watched the Inconvienient Truth
Wow what an eye opener.
Global warming is a scary thing.
What a shame we have here in our great nation.
Money is more important than our furture for our offspring.
Bottom dollar is all that big business is caring about.
Thee world is changing and life as we know it is changing all the world is trying to change but Our government is only worried about the economy??
Wake up they are worried about their own pockets.
Not yours, not mine.
They are not worried about our children or grandchildren.
With the decisions they are making they are not even worried about their own children and grand children.
Their will be nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
We live in a disposable world.
It is broke throw it out.
We can just forget a new planet when we destroy this one.
NASA is not the answer!
War is not the answer.
To be responsible and take of each other.
For me it is a no brainier.
We all have to be more responsible and conserve our resources.
We have to change the way we think and try to educate others.
If others can not afford to do this we must help them.
We have got to stand up to big business and make them accountable for their actions.
We have to make our politicians hear us!
The world depends on it.
Global warming is no joke every other country is taking action.
Why are we at the bottom of the list in being responsible and changing.
The bottom line needs to be change for our future .
If you haven't seen it you should
The Inconvenient Truth!

Things have changed in Nursing Care

This morning before I was going to sleep I called a friend.

She is my sister in Christ Ginny.

She told me that her sister Marilyn

my other sister in Christ

was admitted to the Kennedy Hospital with pneumonia.

So I went straight to the hospital to see her and pray with her.

Marilyn is always busy doing for everyone and puts herself last.

Marilyn has looked bad before but I have never seen her so under the weather.

She need a a paper pad under her we use to call them chux.

They do not have them at Kennedy Hospital.

I was very surprised.

The nursing care she was receiving was very good.

Nurses flowing in and out tending to her every need.

They were very attentive to her comfort.

I went to the Underwood Hospital tonight to see Bob,

they put in a feeding tube and he was starting to run a fever.

I question the timing of this placment of the feeding tube.

They plan to move him to Lourdes Hospital in two days.

He had the IV in place.

They could have done the feeding tube there .

He had a cold before he had a stroke.

I would have been more concerned about his cough that isn't productive.

The risk to this patient contracting of pneumonia.

Than seemingly putting him at more risk to infection.

As yet no one has shaved him, he looked exhausted.

Nursing care at Underwood has taken a bigger dive than ever.

Routine things in nursing are not so routine now.

Back in the day, you would not have to ask anyone to shave you if you couldn't do it yourself.

It would be automatic to have a glycerin swab at your bedside for mouth care.

I actually had to hunt some down for him and they gave me a sponge on a stick.

Health care is so expensive and you do not get the hygienic care

or supplies that seem normal in nursing care.

Bob is coughing deep and no presentation of mucus.

I told his wife to ask more questions tomorrow when the doctor comes.

Is the cough due to saliva or is there congestion in his lungs?

If it is in his lung why is he not getting aspirated.

From a outsider's eyes science has taken a leap forward and

nursing care has slipped a couple steps.

This is not a slam on the nurses or nuring staff.

I realize they have to follow procedures.

They can only use what they have.

Bob's nurses were also attentive as Marilyn's were.

I tend to wonder is this the hospital cutting back to save a buck.

Is this Insurance's big hand in reaching in and giving less?

Reflections

I found this on the internet.

Our life should be like this !

Hail Hail Lion of Juda.

Sing to the Lord a new song

Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them. Let the desert and its towns raise their voices; Let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; Let them shout from the mountaintop. Isaiah 42:10-11

Today is a new day

I sometimes feel with a new day we should

sing a new song of praise to the Lord.

We should reflect on what we have

instead

of what we have not.

I know that I have been doing

a lot of reflecting.

I have been trying to act like

everyday could be my last.

If today was my last I really messed up again!

I slept most of it away and really didn't reach out.

If I left this earth what would Jesus say?

I slept my last days away?

So I pray Tonight I sleep so

Tomorrow I can be among the people

and make a difference in at least one life.

Len and I went to see Bob today.

God has already started healing him.

He was moving both legs.

His face was not drooping.

He still can not move his right arm

without assisting it with the left arm.

He still can not speak.

He was alert and realized what we were talking about.

He did communicated with facial expressions.

Len told him we would be back tomorrow.

I told him he has many people praying for his recovery.

When we were leaving there were tears in both his eyes.

Katie said that he was crying, that was something new.

Praise God for all he is doing!

For Len to go to the hospital and commit to going back

is a miracle enough.

But for the healing taking place is awesome.

Chicken pox have arrived at the white house

Well thank God for the modern medicine!

Two of the three grandchildren have chicken pox.

They all have had the vaccine.

They have what seems to be a mild case.

Minor discomfort thanks to Benadryl and Caladryl.

They all are in good Spirits a week off from school.

Some one on one time with mom.

Far cry from years ago and the itchy agony

along with miserable kids.

Thank God for modern medicine!

Bittersweet

Life has been full of bittersweet times,
today was no exception.
My friend Katie called to tell me,
her husband Bob had a stroke yesterday evening.

Katie and Bob introduced me and Lennie
thirty two years ago on a blind date.
They were sailors on the USS Farragut.
We were introduced a week before
Bob and Katie were married.
Love at first sight.
The minute I saw Len I knew and he the same.
We were married one month later.

Katie and Bob had two daughters and our families
have been close through out the years.

We haven't seen much of each other in the recent years.
We all tend to be so wrapped up in our own lives
but we always were a phone call away.

Bob and Katie never had the luxury of getting a home
of their own and have been in the same
apartment complex for over 25 years.
I swore if we ever got to win the lottery, or hit it big financially
I would surely make sure Kate got the home of her dreams.

Today I called two of our friends to tell them of Katie's
Bob having a stroke.

I asked both of them that maybe we could pull together to help
so Katie wouldn't worry about the rent for a month or two.

One friend that has great medical problem
with her daughter since birth,
her husband recently loss ed his job .
She said certainly she would try,
but it can't be much.

The other said she would make a dinner for her,
and would talk to her husband but
he may be losing his job in the near future.

I was a little broken hearted that in times like these
we are all still going through it.
I told my husband for my birthday
just help Katie out as much as we can.

Things come and go we can't take the stuff with us.
The thing I want I will never get.
I want an addition, a room for everyone
to have a space of their own.

We have our health, family what more could I want.

I just want my friend not to have to worry at this time.

Talking to Katie tonight after she came home from the hospital,
I had a smile back on.
Her oldest Melissa said that if the parents needed her
she would move in with Mike and the baby.
They would take care of them financially if they needed them to.

I have seen Katie do without to give for her children.
It was very heartwarming to see that come back full circle.

As for Bob, I am praying that his recovery is a speedy one.

For me this is a bittersweet moment in time.

Keeping my eyes on the Lord my first Love.

There was a time not to far in the distant past I made this statement
"How can people get so far from God when they know Him!"

At that time I was in prayer and his word constantly.
I was seeing God perform miracles around me.
With just the birth of each of my grand children,
My daughters sugar shot up and was hypertensive with all three pregnancies.

Satan tried to take each of them out at birth.

I laid hands on them before they were being born and dedicated them.

They all looked like Sumo wrestlers when born.

When Isaac was born the cord was wrapped around his neck and he was blue.
there was no fear only warfare!

Bella, they broke her collar bone and no one mentioned it at the time.

Nick had an enlarged heart with a hole in it and his lungs weren't functioning properly.
He was med-evacuated out to the Jefferson then to the DuPont's Children's Hospital.
After what seemed like forever, before he came home.
The Cardiologist was amazed when his heart closed up and went back to a normal size.

For if God was with them who could be against them.
My focus was totally on Him, My Jesus.

I saw Isaac as a toddler get a fever that made him delirious on minute,
His other mom-mom leave to go to the kitchen and come right back up,
ask what happened?
His fever had broken that fast and he was happily playing on the bed.
I laid hand on him and prayed to Jesus to heal him.
My daughter was still on the way from the drugstore with the Motrin.

I have seen the Lord work!

I have seen him do miracles not only in my family.

My husband came home and asked me to pray for his friends family.
Both children had come down with an infection that quickly put them in the hospital.
The son soon needed a liver transplant.
The next day he had his liver along with another child in the hospital.
Within a week he was up and about.
That to me was a triple miracle!


I have seen God through my writing and my paintings.

I have seen God in everything.

Yet I have fallen far away.

I now can relate to the the book The CALL by Rick Joyner.
Those Christians with all the tools but have those demons on their back torturing them.

I have gone through the death of a very close friend.

Yes I laid hands on her but she had the ultimate healing.

In the end she did accept Jesus.

Many have been touched by her.
I will miss her for a very long time.

Day by day I am regaining lost ground in my walk with the Lord.

I wish I could be more like my daughters.
They are very strong women.
I am who I am I will try to walk the path God leads me.
I have always been strong willed, yes and rebellious.

Until my last breathe I will try harder to do His will.
Now I know how people can get so far away and have known Him!

I have never stopped loving Him.
He has never stopped loving me.

It just a matter of putting things in the right perspective.
Keeping my eyes on the Lord my first Love.

I must stop the Hasty Conclusions!

I was watching a commercial:

A woman was eating a doughnut

while holding a leash out the window
of her car walking her dog.

Lazy?

That was the comment.

I can relate to this woman, there are things that you have to do

and have no energy.

You have to get certain things done but how.

The way I see the commercial the woman is tired, stressed and / or depressed.

She eats the doughnut to get an energy that is short term,

only adding to the problems.

Driving down the street with the leash out of the car window

to do something that has to be done.

To just walk would be the logical answer to regain energy and self esteem.

I know this is not the intent of this commercial.

Things are not always what they seem.

To the average viewer they would claim laziness.

To a person who seems to have chronic fatigue.

Survival may be the cause.

As a society we always jump to conclusions.

The interpretation may be way off base.

We come to conclusions on our life experiences.

When I was in Psychology class years ago,

we watched a movie Reflection in a Golden Eye.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred in it.

Everyone saw an event but every ones interpretation was different.

The thing is let us not be hasty to judge people

in the harsh light.

We have all had this quick to judge attitude.

More often than not I tend to jump to the wrong conclusions

based on my personal experience's.

Judge not lest you be judged.

I must always try to give the benefit of doubt.

Really less drama that way!

Lazy? Maybe not!