This is a dedication or suggestion to those supporting loved ones who have had a traumatic event in their lives and are staying in the hospital or have stayed there. It might shed some light on their behaviour and help you understand why they have made some of their decisions about visitors or about why…
Author: katievil
A Dedication to My Husband
This is a dedication to my husband Sidney. He is the love of my life and my rock. I am not sure how I would be able to get through each day without you. When this first happened to me you stood by my side and never left. You urged me to seek treatment, even…
An Adventurer of the Healthcare System
You never stop being a patient even after being discharged from the hospital. There are post-op appointments, specialists to see, and therapy sessions. Patient by Websters dictionary is defined as: ‘A person under medical or surgical treatment; – correlative to physician or nurse. Like a physician, . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever….
Who Hasn’t Seen Me Naked By Now
Since I had been admitted into the hospital I had needed assistance putting on my clothes and most of all taking a shower. After a few days, I could even smell me. You know it’s bad when you start to miss the distinct hospital smell. The first time that Ruth, my nurse in the stroke…
Why I love Technology
Technology. I am a huge fan. It is because of this that our world goes round, with a few other things thrown in there too mind you. It is also because of this that the doctors found out that I didn’t have a stroke. They were able to narrow down my diagnosis using technology to…
It’s Important To Be Positive (Or Is It?)
When I was in high school I had a teacher tell me that I would never make it in college or university. She was an English teacher. I ended up switching out of her class because I didn’t find her inspiring and also I wouldn’t have been able to get a grade that would…
Perplexed
After being in the hospital for a few days, my condition had continued to worsen. Not by a lot, but by enough that I needed to be looked at by another specialist, a Neurologist, Dr. Paul Cooper in London. I had previously seen him years before for my migraines as he specializes in migraines. The…
Finding Answers
When you are someone that is always in complete control of the situation it is hard to let go of that control and allow the uncertainty of the situation take over. The uncertain elements that were slowly coming together to create a diagnosis, the uncertainty of how my life was going to change and what…
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
Beauty means different things to different people. I never thought I was a vain person by any means, however, I was someone who wore makeup, maintained highlights in my hair and tried to keep up with the latest fashions (if my budget allowed). So I guess you could say I was a little vain. I…
Let’s Start From the Very Beginning…
There are 60 seconds in a minute. 60 minutes in an hour and 1440 minutes in one day. That’s 10080 minutes in one week. I always wished for more minutes in the day and more hours in the week to finish work to get ahead on business. That all stops when something happens to your…
A Broken Brain Story 