"Rhia,
congratulations on this special compilation of your poetry. I write
poetry as well & know your work has rendered me 'to do something' for
self-publishing as well. My story is a bit different but has to do with
pain as well. Your brushstroke of words
are appealing, raw, and true. You will be reaching many who need the
encouragement to feel, keep moving forward, and to enjoy life as fully
as possible. You are gifted & I will pray for your success with this
project. You are already successful as a poet. Not everyone can be a
poet & so much of what we write is for our own journey and
healing--it's a deep, deep place to go. I'm glad you are sharing &
I'm really praying for God to give me the GO and the HOW to get my
poetry out there as well. God bless you..."
The
beautiful and thought provocative words above come from a dear lady on a
group that I belong to on FB. I was so touched by her sincere and heart
felt post about my poetry and my 1st book, that I cried tears of joy
when I read this last night. I had to share her words with all of you
also. This is what my writing is truly about. If I have reached out and
"painted" a brush stroke of encouragement to one person, then I feel my
"job" in life is complete. I shall leave her name off for now, but I
will ask if I can put her name in. She is also a writer and poet. I
would love for her to share with me, if she would like some of her work.
:)
Rhia
"Through my heart's work of writing, I share with you my complex journey a top the mountain, sliding down, crawling up, & living through the realms of Autoimmune Arthritic Illnesses. Taming "The Wolf" Thru each Day... One Step at a Time … Together We Are Learning to Survive. Please follow along, to New Beginnings - looking Thru the Window Pane of Pain in life where we shall find our journey leading us to - New Perspectives
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
This Makes me totally Ashamed to be from my Own Home State!
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Texans-petition-to-secede-from-U-S-4035480.php
Honestly, I am SO ASHAMED of my OWN STATE! I HATE SAYING I AM FROM HEAR!!! And then we find out the Idiot of a Governor we have (thank goodness not PRESIDENT) is responsible for spreading this rumor!!! Here is THE TRUTH! Of course I cannot
Honestly, I am SO ASHAMED of my OWN STATE! I HATE SAYING I AM FROM HEAR!!! And then we find out the Idiot of a Governor we have (thank goodness not PRESIDENT) is responsible for spreading this rumor!!! Here is THE TRUTH! Of course I cannot
fathom
Texans would even think about signing this.... give up our Federal
Benefits, Social Security, Medicare, help with all kinds of
infrastructure, health care for the disabled and elderly, help with our
schools, colleges, can you imagine a state on its own trying to "police"
itself and pay for everything???? this is total insanity!!!! I am s
freaking appauled I could just spit!!! Like I said this just is the kind
of mess that causes me to feel totally ashamed of my accent, and my
heritage in this state. What happened to PRIDE!!!! What happened to
being the "United States?" I feel we can blame that idiot in Austin, and
the GOP for this one...
Believe me I definitely have lots more to say on this one... but I want to get the initial post up and try to save "face" for those of us, that do NOT agree with this madness!!!
Friday, November 9, 2012
Keeping you "up to date" on Ramblings of A Seasoned Soul
First of all, here is a "shorter link in amazon.com to get to my Author page and book, both Kindle and the book versions.
https://www.amazon.com/author/rhiasteele
Secondly, I want to give a huge Thanks out there to all that continue to send praises about my poetry, my very 1st published book, and just how proud they are of me. Even several of my doctors, and others around in our community that know already have given me congrats! cards etc. I am so filled with positive emotions to have people take the time to tell me how they feel! I am still busy trying to get it into our newspaper. We have not had time this week. After doctors visits 3 days in a row, along with everything else, I am hoping to get more done over the next few days and I am really thinking about getting another group of poetry together and go ahead with a 2nd book soon. I am working on writing my 1st "book, book", as I call it. I have several titles in my head, but I am not sure yet, thus I just say "THE BOOK" LOL!!! Again, I am so appreciative of all the wonderful things all are saying... Hugs Rhia
https://www.amazon.com/author/rhiasteele
Secondly, I want to give a huge Thanks out there to all that continue to send praises about my poetry, my very 1st published book, and just how proud they are of me. Even several of my doctors, and others around in our community that know already have given me congrats! cards etc. I am so filled with positive emotions to have people take the time to tell me how they feel! I am still busy trying to get it into our newspaper. We have not had time this week. After doctors visits 3 days in a row, along with everything else, I am hoping to get more done over the next few days and I am really thinking about getting another group of poetry together and go ahead with a 2nd book soon. I am working on writing my 1st "book, book", as I call it. I have several titles in my head, but I am not sure yet, thus I just say "THE BOOK" LOL!!! Again, I am so appreciative of all the wonderful things all are saying... Hugs Rhia
Thursday, November 8, 2012
When Your "Gut" Tells you something is wrong, listen!
I just have to tell you very early this morning (my dog actually woke me up, so I just stayed up) . I had a visit to my Rheumy yesterday. I was telling him the entire ordeal about the double vision, and about the "specialist" that I went to, and he had this strange look on his face. Comes to find out, Jim and I were very "hit the nail on the head right" about that entire thing!!! My Rheumy was VERY FAMILIAR with this other doc. He had seen patients before that went to him and they had gotten caught into the same web if crap I did! First, the "HIGH" number of the "blood test" ran that this eye specialist did, was THE WRONG TEST! I had thought so. It tests more about inflammation and what it has to do with the HEART, not the temporal artery! 2nd of all this HIGH was NOT that far from NORMAL! He told me ay number of things could have caused that small of a shift in the inflammatory part, of which I HAVE, Lupus, RA etc. Then the BIOPSY was a total waste of TIME, MONEY and should not have been done unless other things indicated it really needed to be done. It was an invasive procedure, that is safe, BUT it can have its complications like anything else, like paralysis on that side of the face if they cut a nerve! One more thing, usually "eye specialists" do NOT treat Temporal Arteritis! It is an autoimmune disease that Rheumatologists usually treat!!! That other idiot should have sent me to my Rheumy with it. He said it is one of the most wrong diagnosed things, because many doctors often do not do the correct test and do not understand the numbers "that are off" enough to indicate this AI illness. We were both just about ready to fall out of our chairs when he told us all of this. Here we were basically saying the exact thing, I even hesitated twice and cancelled the biopsy, because I felt it was not needed from what all I had read. But this guy has you by the "ba-0s!) he is telling you that you could go blind, etc and making it sound like if you do not go through with the biopsy something bad will happen, and so forth, pressuring you to say you will have it done!!!! And here the guy is with a waiting room FULL OF PATIENTS, many I bet are not needing to be there, or may not be getting the proper treatment and so forth! Any doc that says he "sees" a 100 patients in a DAY something is off! I am starting back on the Humira and stopping the Orencia. He told me often people with chronic pain go through this issue. I had gotten some relief from the Humira, but the daily pain in general makes it harder for us to feel whether a new medication is really helping or not. We may think it is not, and then discover if you switch to something else, the first one WAS making a difference more than the 2nd one. Which is probably what happened in my case. I just thought the Humira was not helping as much as it really was until I tried a different biologic. Now I can tell it was helping me much more than I thought. Now that is not counting the ridiculous unprofessional situation I went through in the OR as I was just waking up from the anesthetic!!!! As we thought, that was over the top, and should not have happened whatsoever. I just felt like I as going through de ja' vue when I heard my Rheumy talking about all of this. We both looked and him and said thank you for verifying that we were not crazy, and all of our instincts and information we went through was correct! I never did really get the correct testing not diagnosis because all that was done was probably wrong. So, if we are well educated, and not stupid people, and it happened to us, can you imagine how much he makes off of those that do not go and research their own medical stuff? Or check out whether what a doctor is telling you sounds reasonable or ridiculous? IF your first "gut" instinct says something is OFF, than some is really more than likely, off.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Ready to end this Election Season...
I am sure I am not the only one sick and tired of the way we have
been inundated with enough election media and information to last us at
least another 4 years! It seems when we feel it cannot get any worse as
far as media and some of the worst "lies" that ever comes from
politicians mouths, the next election brings even more. This whole
ordeal with "big corporations" being allowed to "foot the bill" on their
favored candidate is a bunch of "Malarky" as VP Biden put it. What ever
happened to the people having the say as to whom runs our nation???
Well, when a choice few with the big bucks can have more pull than the
everyday people who are the ones that keep this nation running, then
this world has turned upside down and inside out! I am so hoping, (and I
know it ion the bottom of the totem pole list of things to do) that
their is an overhaul of just how the election process is ran by the time
another 4 years rolls around. We need some people in a group that are
totally non-partisan, to get some road rules of the game set up where
everyone is on an even playing field money wise, and this wanting an
"id" to vote business, as well as lots of other issues that get swept
under the rug after the election is over type thing. You can also
probably ask 100 people on the streets about the "electoral vote" stuff,
and none of them could tell you exactly how that is ran and what
happens, and why it is supposed to work, as far as the election of our
President goes. I think it is a totally antiquated system, that for the
most part not one person in the everyday world really gets. Plus, I also
do not think it is fair for one party to be able to cough up millions
of dollars more for ads that should not even be on television, much less
to have more pull just because of "monetary" means. OF course we all
know the "GOP" loves the fact that the are the rich old cronies, that do
have each others backs (even though they also stab each other in
them)... and it just leaves an even keel when it comes to people and our
voting rights. NOT ONE DIME OF MONEY should be able to influence an
election. It should be totally decided by the people, and give them an
open without cost (FREE ID'S if you need one to vote), plus if things
like this electronic voting is causing longer lines where the elderly,
as well as others that are ill and so forth, the exact same level
ground to place their vote, and that their vote counts the same as the
person next door. To me, this electoral vote thing is an old and
outdated way of allowing the GOP to have their fingers in the cookie jar
as they usually do. They have done it since the beginning of time, and
it is going to be that way forever unless we stand up and say we have
had enough!!! I am also puzzled beyond belief that women would ever
stand up and be counted in for Romney. He is a "womanizer" from way
back. He would hurt his own Grand Mother if he thought he would benefit
from it. He could car less about women's rights, from birth control to
rape, and all of the things we, as women are entitled to. He could care
less about Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, helping the elderly, or
anyone that is in a "minority" situation. That man is for MONEY, GREED
and Power!!! (and I am still writing on my "Greed" Post)... As I see it,
I vote for who I feel can DO THE JOB as best as possible. I don't care
if they are GOP, Democratic, or the neighbor down the street. As long as
they can get our country out of debt, our people back to work, get
Medicare and Social Security solvent, get us out of the war zones, help
get more money in medical research and development, and truly handle
what is important to the middle class, the working people... his
"political race" does not matter to me. It is how he conducts his
business when it comes to going about helping to put our business back
in order.
I am sure I am stepping on some toes, but this is my feelings, and I am not going to dismiss yours at all. i just wanted to tell it from my point of view. I am ready for 4 MORE YEARS TO ALLOW PRESIDENT OBAMA, to straighten out more of the stuff in this nation that was screwed up YEARS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT!!!! As of late I have gotten to the point I feel the media has gotten so greedy also, they tend to stand more on the lines of "not really telling it all like it is". If they can manipulate a story or sensationalize it, then they get the attention, thus more money. I half way do not trust much of what I read or hear from our news media these days. It is just a matter of many of the "big wigs", have well forgotten us everyday folks, that want a home, a job, a car, to be able to take care of us and our families, and not be lied to, taken advantage of, neglected or have the life we work so hard for taken away by those who like reeking havoc around the globe. So, with the elections over tomorrow, my hope is that our President will be able to once again concentrate on what is truly important, jobs, housing, gas prices, food prices, education, our infrastructure, new and alternative energy sources, much more research for so many health problems, help for the elderly, disabled and less fortunate, getting our troops home, keeping our nation safe, keeping open lines across the globe and allies that are true to their word and want to help to make things safer and more peaceful. As we close the process tomorrow may we find a new direction, a new light, and a sense of some kind of peace, looking for a new dawn, and moving..... FORWARD!!!!!
I am sure I am stepping on some toes, but this is my feelings, and I am not going to dismiss yours at all. i just wanted to tell it from my point of view. I am ready for 4 MORE YEARS TO ALLOW PRESIDENT OBAMA, to straighten out more of the stuff in this nation that was screwed up YEARS BEFORE HE BECAME PRESIDENT!!!! As of late I have gotten to the point I feel the media has gotten so greedy also, they tend to stand more on the lines of "not really telling it all like it is". If they can manipulate a story or sensationalize it, then they get the attention, thus more money. I half way do not trust much of what I read or hear from our news media these days. It is just a matter of many of the "big wigs", have well forgotten us everyday folks, that want a home, a job, a car, to be able to take care of us and our families, and not be lied to, taken advantage of, neglected or have the life we work so hard for taken away by those who like reeking havoc around the globe. So, with the elections over tomorrow, my hope is that our President will be able to once again concentrate on what is truly important, jobs, housing, gas prices, food prices, education, our infrastructure, new and alternative energy sources, much more research for so many health problems, help for the elderly, disabled and less fortunate, getting our troops home, keeping our nation safe, keeping open lines across the globe and allies that are true to their word and want to help to make things safer and more peaceful. As we close the process tomorrow may we find a new direction, a new light, and a sense of some kind of peace, looking for a new dawn, and moving..... FORWARD!!!!!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
In the Wake of A Monster Storm - More signs of the times...
It so so difficult to even think about the unfathomable amount of loss over the East Coast. As the stories continued to unfold, the loss of life, homes, everything for so many people, cities, entire towns, and our economic situation, we try to find reasons for why this has to happen. I know it has to be a question that runs through all of those in the wake of this "massive monster storm", as to why our country endures such a loss that is too big for words. Yesterday, as I went to run some errands, I happened to have to run to get my dogs some medication. There is a woman there I know, and she was in the process of getting the channel on the TV there to watch what was happening as far as the storm. We got to talking, and her comment was "She felt this was a "sign" of the times", which I feel the same in many ways about. These types of "Monster Storms", along with all types of unthinkable natural disasters are so difficult to view any other way. Then you take all of the other issues through out our nation and our entire world. From those who run through streets of entire towns killing innocent people, to those who march against all of us as terrorists to harm not only the USA but so many other countries around the globe. When you see a young person who is ready to strap a massive amount of material that will blow up or put it in a vehicle and know they will take their own lives "in the name of whatever" to hurt, maim, and do untold harm all around, those people are another sign of the times. We have untold amounts of people without jobs. Our water, our ground, our oceans, our air.... our food, everything we "intake" into our bodies is basically full of one type of contamination or another, whether it be "hormones" to make them grow quicker, or antibiotics, or preservatives, all of it in one way or the other must harm humans. We see massive forests disappearing, while more and more concrete takes over. Our air is so polluted, we see more children, and record numbers of adults that never had asthma now developing breathing and lung issues because our air is so full of contaminants. Our economic situation has not been this bad since the "Great Depression" and in my opinion it is "worse" in many ways that the depression of the 30's. We have so much GREED, corruption, negligence, and other types of those who choose to be more for themselves, than to help their fellow neighbor, that jobs for the "everyday" people are gone, We have "technologically" damaged our selves out of jobs. We have changed "main street" America into huge amount of businesses that offer more "title loans", pawn shops", "cash loans, gold buying places" rather than shoe stores and clothing shops. It is SAD when I drive through my small home town, and it seems every month yet another "Payday" loan, "title" loan, or pawn shop opens up, in what used to be places we bought items from local shop owners. I can count more than 10 to 12 of these types of businesses, and more coming in by the numbers. It almost makes me sick to see them. Thus, I feel the same as what she and I talked about, it is truly, a sign of what is coming very soon. We are headed for the end of times. We are headed for utter destruction; those that do not have their "business" in order(and I mean their "heart" and "soul" right with their Higher Power") should be truly thinking about that business, because in my heart, I feel ready. I added as I left from talking to her as she said what I felt.. we have taken "Higher Power" (I won't say God" since I feel everyone thinks of that entity in different ways), out of everything... out of our homes, schools (kids cannot even say a devotional as we did in my elementary school), and yes businesses and yes our government! I realize the separation of "church" and "state" BUT that does NOT mean to IGNORE WHO is the very essence of all people. Let's face it, we were a much better place, when we had our priorities straight in lives... putting the most important things first, saying grace, attending church, giving our children a solid foundation of morality to stand on... and I say morality, because that means how to treat others, how to run their lives right, without harm to others... teaching them RIGHT FROM WRONG, and parents these days just DON"T for the most part, look around... at all of the things that are just "wrong". yesterday, we went out to eat to celebrate my "1st book" being published...there were only a handful of people in this local buffet, and 3 of the women there honestly were so obese, to the point of not just obesity, but it was "morose" to even watch them fill plate after plate! with more food.... and GLUTTONY is the only word for it... these women did NOT have medical issues, or other things that were beyond their control making them that huge... they were all relatively young, well below the age of 40, some probably in their late 20's. IT was to the point of being "repulsive" to think about eating, when we saw them continue to walk by with full sized plates, one after the other FULL and overflowing with food. I don't mean to be offensive at all. I am NOT talking about those who have weight issues that truly cannot help it. Those with medical issues, and other reasons that they are overweight have nothing to do with what we saw yesterday evening. Even I worry about my own weight due to the medication of Prednisone I take. It is a small dose, but it is daily, and it can cause weight issues if I don't keep a daily watch on my diet and exercise. But, these types of issues, look around at our young people, they I would say 60 percent of them overweight or obese in our society now days. These are just a few things that all point to there is a short time left here. I am NO PROPHET!! I don't "foresee" the future and I am not some fanatic... I am merely giving out what I see, hear, and feel in my own heart and mind.... things are out of control and we should stand back and really survey our lives, and decide what truly is important today, tomorrow, and the days we have left...none of us know that day, that moment... but for us that believe we do know it is all unfolding...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The Amazon.com LInk To Ramblings of a Seasoned Soul "Brush Strokes of Life In Words"
Here is the OFFICIAL AMAZON.COM link to my New Book! I am so totally thrilled!!!
http://www.amazon.com/Ramblings-Seasoned-Soul-Strokes-Volume/dp/1461061946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351633040&sr=8-1&keywords=Ramblings+of+a+seasoned
It is also listed below in the post from yesterday, but I wanted to make sure it was visible.... Hope all is well with you and yours across the country.... My heart and prayers go out to all on the Eastern Sea Board.... I have had you on my mind since 3:30 am.... Rhia
http://www.amazon.com/Ramblings-Seasoned-Soul-Strokes-Volume/dp/1461061946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351633040&sr=8-1&keywords=Ramblings+of+a+seasoned
It is also listed below in the post from yesterday, but I wanted to make sure it was visible.... Hope all is well with you and yours across the country.... My heart and prayers go out to all on the Eastern Sea Board.... I have had you on my mind since 3:30 am.... Rhia
Monday, October 29, 2012
Ramblings of a Seasoned Soul "Brush Strokes of Life in Words"
Ramblings of A Seasoned Soul
Brush Strokes of Life through Words
https://www.createspace.com/3587328?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026&fb_action_ids=4425618113428&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
It is Done!!! Finally after so many years, way more than 30, I have published my very first book! I pray there will be several more to follow! For most of my life, I have written, poetry, journal writing, just writing. I write for all kinds of reasons, through pain, happiness, sadness, strife, chronic illness, love, laughter, and life above all!!! I promised myself that before I take that one last breath, I would get a book published! TODAY October 29th, 2012, is another one of those monumental days of life that make you feel you are standing a top your own mountain and not one soul could ever make you roll down again! But, those rolls down are what gave me all of the words to make this book and the ones to follow reality.
I am excited to share these poems with my family, friends, and all of those that have been an inspiration along the way. My favorite song lyrics (one of many) has always been "when they carve my stone, all they need to write on it, is once lived a girl who got all she ever wanted, tell me something... who could ask for more.... to be living in a moment... you would die for... alas this is one of those shining moments... a day in my own life that is one of infamy! My hopes are that in reading these works of life, love, pain, and all that go into the spaces in between, you are moved to climb to your own mountain top... and stay there, with the sun shining upon your face. To all that continue to inspire me.... I am honored.....
Rhiannon
HERE!!! is the OFFICIAL Amazon.com link to my new book!
Ramblings of a Seasoned Soul - Amazon.com Link
Brush Strokes of Life through Words
https://www.createspace.com/3587328?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026&fb_action_ids=4425618113428&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
It is Done!!! Finally after so many years, way more than 30, I have published my very first book! I pray there will be several more to follow! For most of my life, I have written, poetry, journal writing, just writing. I write for all kinds of reasons, through pain, happiness, sadness, strife, chronic illness, love, laughter, and life above all!!! I promised myself that before I take that one last breath, I would get a book published! TODAY October 29th, 2012, is another one of those monumental days of life that make you feel you are standing a top your own mountain and not one soul could ever make you roll down again! But, those rolls down are what gave me all of the words to make this book and the ones to follow reality.
I am excited to share these poems with my family, friends, and all of those that have been an inspiration along the way. My favorite song lyrics (one of many) has always been "when they carve my stone, all they need to write on it, is once lived a girl who got all she ever wanted, tell me something... who could ask for more.... to be living in a moment... you would die for... alas this is one of those shining moments... a day in my own life that is one of infamy! My hopes are that in reading these works of life, love, pain, and all that go into the spaces in between, you are moved to climb to your own mountain top... and stay there, with the sun shining upon your face. To all that continue to inspire me.... I am honored.....
Rhiannon
HERE!!! is the OFFICIAL Amazon.com link to my new book!
Ramblings of a Seasoned Soul - Amazon.com Link
For All in Harm's Way of this Massive Storm of Destruction Please Heed the Warnings... our prayers are with you...
As I scurry to read about this massive possibly deadly and most
certainly destructive storm, I like so many thousands and thousands
across the nation and world are thinking and praying for all in harm's
way. It is so difficult to fathom Mother Nature can decide to throw such
a massive natural disaster our way and within moments, take live and
turn it upside down. But, it can certainly do that within the blink of
an eye. speaking of the "eye" gosh, in looking at the size of this
monster, just the cloud cover alone tells you the drama that is about to
unfold over the entire Eastern Coast Line.... When it is going to
possibly effect the Great Lake's around Chicago, with a storm surge, as I
believe I read, the just slowly begins to allow me to understand the
horrid amount of damage to possible life, and then to thin of how many
lives will be effected in one way or the other by this storm as it comes
through on its very slow path. From dumping more than a foot of snow in
the mountains of Virginia, to flooding possibly the New York and New
Jersey subways, to storm surges that could wipe out entire towns, it
tells us we ARE NOT IN CONTROL!!! The only control we have is to make a
"smart" choice early enough, and get the heck out of the way of this
monstrous and massive Lady Storm... Honestly she is NO LADY but more
like a "BIATCH!"... hella, helluva, or however you want to put if, it is
one hell-a-cious disaster in the making. I realize just the thought of
losing everything... your mementos, your memories, your home, and
possibly everything you have acquired in your entire life is a night
mare... and it must be hell having to leave so much behind, BUt saving
your family and your life is so much more important. SO, PLEASE if they
are telling you to get the heck out of this storms way, and evacuate...
please heed those warnings and get to where you are safe... your life is
so much more important, and memories can remain in your heart, items
and things can be replaced... and you can put that back together... even
though it is extremely difficult.... I know due to living in "tornado
alley" there have been times I was not sure I would have a home or not
over the years when the huge Cat 5 and even the smaller tornado's roll
in you wonder what will be left within moments after ward... and often
it is nothing... but all that are in the path of destruction I hope do
truly get to safety.... remember all of you are in our thoughts and
prayers over the coming days... and realize even when it passes it can
be far from over due to whatever Sandy decides to dump in your area...
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Medical REAL LIFE horror in the OR! Totally UNWARRANTED!
this is the largest mess I am seen in our medical society and just
continues to get worse by the moment! It is a testament to just how
fouled up we are with our medical situation in this nation. My questions
is HOW can VIALS of a medication that goes through many hands, from the
compounding pharmacy, to the hospitals pharmacy, to the nurses who pick
it up, to those who handle the vial in the OR, to even the main OR
nurse and the DOCTOR!!!!, and you mean to tell me NOT ONE person saw
"CRAP" floating around in a CLEAR VIAL of medication???? How can that
be??? So many people handle a vial of medication for injection like
that, thus missing some greenish black or white filament like stuff
floating in fluid that is supposed to be either clear or even if a
little cloudy when shaken etc... SOME ONE should have SEEN IT????? We
have TOO MANY PATIENTS, and doctors that SEE too may patients, they do
too many procedures daily, and that is why these kinds of mistakes are
not caught somewhere in the chain. BEFORE doctors had to FIGHT TO KEEP
ENOUGH MONEY TO HAVE A PRACTICE, any and all of the staff that saw those
"vial" of contaminated medication would have been very aware that
something was very wrong. Now, doctors barely even know who someone is
in their office and probably less in the OR!!! They have a chart, a
nurse to make sure they have the right person and other staff like the
anesthesiologist to keep the patients straight, and doctors do even
surgeries like "herding" cattle through a shoot for slaughter! It is one
after the other... half the time, they don't even "close". Some
assistant does the final suturing, stapling, gluing or however the final
incision is closed. Believe me, I can tell the difference after surgery
of the doctors that KNOW THEIR PATIENTS and they do the surgery from
opening to closing every step. I witnessed this idiot that did my biopsy
on my temporal artery the other day practically running out of OR,
stripping off that gown to hurry for a new one, and I heard them say
yes, the next one is ready basically! Now you tell me how the hell we
don't have even more medical mistakes from bad medications
(contaminated), to wrong medicines given, to wrong surgeries performed
(and their are more than we really know), to nurses who do NOT follow
doctors orders(and I have experienced MANY of them), to any and every
other type of "so-called accident" there could be in the realms of
medical care at any facility!!! These types of issues have gotten to be
so "mundane" compared to all of our other mess in the world that the
news medical "don't feel this kind of stuff is NEWS WORTHY ENOUGH to
even talk about anymore. This is the very reasons our entire system
needs to be changed. this business about doctors overworked with too
many patients, and too many not needed procedures, scans, X-rays, blood
tests, expense invasive things done, and the list goes on, and all due
to the name of the game..MONEY, AND GREED!!!! I was speaking of my book
just below, here is the subject of an entire book for me!!!! I have been
through enough surgeries, tests, procedures, doctors, and seen mistakes
in my own life as far as medical mistakes to FILL A BOOK! One in
particular was so bad it ALMOST COST ME MY LIFE! And I am NOT JOKING
about that one. IT alone could be a book. So, this is very near and dear
to my heart. Our system is BROKEN, it is filled with doctors who have
to do enough "procedures" "tests", surgeries and what have you to be
able to keep a business open! I just kind of "lost" my own
Rheumatologist who had his own PERSONA PRACTICE open for over 7 YEARS!!!
But, due to the ever climbing prices of the business he had to CLOSE IT
AND GO TO TEACHING, RESEARCHING, and then SOME PRACTICING, BUT ONLY
PART-TIME NOW!! And he was the BEST Rheumatologist in the DFW area, in
fact I venture to say in TEXAS! He knew his patients, he was never late,
he ALWAYS LISTENED, HE never over scheduled, when you needed prior
authorization on medications, he DID IT RIGHT THERE IMMEDIATELY HIMSELF
IN THE ROOM, I mean the man knows his stuff. I could not fathom him
unable to meet his obligations, but it is due to the horrible mess with
insurance companies, Medicare, and the entire screwed up ball of crap
our medical situation is in!!! Good doctors cannot survive!!!!! I have
been watching this since it first unfolded as I said above since my
issues of 2010 honestly almost killed me. It was supposed to be a
"routine" gallbladder removal. I can tell you it was anything but
"routine" and it went so far beyond a gallbladder removal, that when in
the end was more than likely NOT NEEDED! It just goes to show, sometimes
"things are not what they seem", doctors should TAKE MORE TIME TO SEE
THE EVIDENCE, rather than waiting for a million tests, get down to the
brass tacks of what is really going on. I realize my circumstances were
very emergent, and symptoms revealed things that appeared to be gall
bladder related. But, the surgeon that done the procedure either fouled
up, and never admitted it OR something went very wrong in the hours
following that surgery. What made it worse, is because it HAPPENED to
be "WEEKEND" so rather than try to nail down the problems or transfer
me, they waited.... AND ALMOST WAITED TOO LONG!! By the time I was
finally transferred to another hospital, it was almost too late! Even
then my life was very touch and go for days. They had called my family
in to be "together" more than once during several of the operations I
endured over the coming days. I believe I was more in the operating room
than out, them trying to first even establish what the real problem
was, then what to do to fix it. Still honestly till this day, even
reading the records, I don't think they knew what the issues really
were, other than I was extremely and critically ill. I lost over a week
or more of "time" where I had no clue what happened. My husband has
tried to fill in the blanks, because I was so severely ill, and had so
much medication in me, that I don't remember many of the surgeries that
went on. There was an entire week, that I thought that my husband never
even came to the hospital yet he had been there every day, sometimes he
drove two times daily all the way from Ennis to see me. It was a living
hell for him and my family... and for me! I, at the time was so ill, I
did not realize just how badly things were. But, each time I see
something like this, especially when it involves a situation that SOME
ONE COULD HAVE CAUGHT THIS!!! , PLUS IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED! I
watched the news and saw last night, A COUPLE BOTH HAD INJECTIONS. The
wife passed away, and now the HUSBAND is ill with meningitis!!! So that
family may lose BOTH PARENTS to this absolutely stupid certainly KNOWN
error. It proves once again GREED RULES! Due to being cheap, to make a
few bucks rather than sterile and clean to save peoples lives they went
for the cheap, contaminated, filthy route! Can you imagine being
injected directly into your SPINAL FLUID THAT SURROUNDS YOUR BRAIN WITH
MOLD AND CONTAMINATED MEDICATIONS?????? It just makes me ill to even
think about it!!!!!
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