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Gods grace through my hospital nightmare šŸ™

January 16, 2025

PROVERBS 14:29

A PATIENT PERSON SHOWS GREAT UNDERSTANDING, BUT A QUICK-TEMPERED ONE PROMOTES FOOLISHNESS.

Hi everyone. I know, I am back so soon with another article, shocking right? 😱LOL. The truth is it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise because if you watched the vlog that went with my last article then you would have heard me say; I was coming back with a part 2, so here I am, I kept my word, here is part 2 of last months (last years) vlog.

It was important for me to record a part 2 because I wanted to share my experience of the roller coaster ride of trials I went through when I was in the hospital back in October.

I said this in the actual video but I’ll say it again, I am not making this vlog/blog to complain, I am making it strictly for educational purposes!

I actually love the hospital I go to and I have tremendous respect for the people who work there, but there were many trials I did go through this past admission and I can’t ignore them. I have to speak up about it, so that’s the reason for this vlog/blog. Again though, I will say: all of this is not to complain, but to educate!

I am assuming if you are reading this, you already watched the vlog (video), so I am not going to say everything again. I am just going to say, if you haven’t watched the video, click on it at the top of this page because if you don’t watch it, then you won’t understand what I am saying in this article.

Back in October the Lord once again taught me so many things but the number one thing he taught me was patience and empathy, empathy was a big one that I think the Lord has been teaching me.

When you are disabled and going through a trial like I was in October, it can get difficult for many reasons. It’s easy to think that life revolves around our needs and feelings. If you’re not careful, you might get trapped in that mindset, thinking nothing else matters but your feelings.” You start to think that nothing else matters but your pain and your hurt and your needs, and it’s a very slippery Slope.

For example, when it came to my situation, it wasn’t just about me, I wasn’t going through it alone. I wasn’t the only one affected, I wasn’t the only one who was drained or frustrated, my mom was going through it all too.

That’s why I was even so thankful when my one friend who sent me breakfast one morning didn’t just send me breakfast but he remembered my mom and sent her it too. He realized and remembered that it wasn’t just about me, and I wasn’t the only one going through this but she was going through it too.

Before I go any further I just wanted to make something clear. Yes both my parents went through this with me, but my mom was the affected one because she was the one staying up with me for days at a time, she was the one sitting in hospital rooms with me, she was the one changing me and doing all the caretaker things. My dad is one hundred percent there, but he has a job and in the winter time he is working all hours of the day and night. Plus he now has major medical complications himself, so my mom does most of the heavy lifting now, but I just wanted to make clear before I went any further that yes my dad’s one hundred percent involved so don’t take this article out of context. Ok back to what I was originally saying LOL.

I think it’s very easy for us as the ā€œsickā€ one, to forget the people who are in our lives who are basically just innocent bystanders. They feel the impact and the weight of the trials, like what I went through in October, just as much as the ā€œsickā€ person does.

Which is what brings me to my point, when you are in the hospital and you have these minor but yet annoying little incidents that happen over and over again. Like what happened to me during my last admission. You start to feel like the hospital staff for the most part act like they don’t care, and act like it’s not a big deal, and do nothing to take responsibility for their wrong doings. Most of these ā€œincidentsā€ can be avoided if people just took their jobs more seriously.

These tiny ā€œincidentsā€ didn’t just affect me, they affected my mom too, because once she realized how incompetent this staff was. She had to watch their every move and be, pretty much my body guard just like she had to do when I was a little kid and at a hospital I been going to for almost 38 years, that just should not be happening.

The staff that knows me and my case is amazing with me. But the problem is, this hospital has changed a lot of their staff and got rid of a lot of the good employees and they brought in all these young adults who you can tell do not care for their patients or their job, and it is really sad to see the direction that this hospitals going in.

To the Doctors or regular staff who take care of me, if you ever read this, please know I am not talking about any of you, I am referring to the new people and the new systems they have in place that is just a mess and not working, from their scheduling department to the radiology department and everything in between.

My point to talking about all this isn’t to complain, it’s to say that all these added on trials and stressful situations do not help. People like me who practically live in the hospital and who are dealing with so much already, they do not need your added on stress and honestly your rudeness.

If you are a person who is going to work in a hospital and especially a pediatric hospital, because pediatrics is a whole another level of care, so if you are going to decide to work in that kind of atmosphere then you better learn patience and compassion and learn to have empathy for your patients. Even if you think your job is not important and you’re doing something as simple as transporting patients. Learn to do it without acting like, excuse my language but, like a jerk!

You may not think your job is important, but it is. Anyone working with sick people, no matter the title or the complexity of care you give, if you are hands-on with the patient, then your job and your attitude is important, so start acting like you care and if you don’t care, then it’s time to get a new job!

We, as the patient and family of patient, were going through pure Hell during those moments and we most definitely feel the impact. Even if it’s someone like myself and my family, who are used to these trials and who are always laughing and smiling and being polite, we still are stressed and we still feel the weight of it all, we just opt to take the route of kindness and joy and we choose to not let the weight of our trials affect how we treat other people. Because we know all to well what it feels like to be someone’s mental and emotional punching bag, and we never want to be that back at others.

Instead we choose compassion, kindness and love and more importantly we choose to shine the light of Christ. Please don’t get me wrong though, just because I have a smile on my face and am respectful to you, it doesn’t mean I don’t feel the weight of your rudeness or even awkwardness.

So Jackie what is your point? My point is simple, have compassion and empathy for those around you, because I think in society today we are loosing that more and more and we are becoming a generation of me mentality people. It’s not always about me, myself, and I. It’s about everyone, so get beyond your feelings and your little world and start thinking about those around you.

1 Peter 4:10: As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

I am blessed to be at an age where I know how to handle situations like what I went through in October, but the average child and the average parent who are new to this world. They are not prepared and are not strong enough to understand it.

At a hospital like the one I go to. It is so close to the inner city and close to a lot of low income areas and lots of areas with high crime rate, and so hospitals like this see a lot of troubled kids. The pain in some of these kids eyes is heart breaking to see. Kids like this do not need the people caring for them to be rude and heartless.

They need kindness, patience and understanding, so if you work in a hospital with patients like this and you do not have those skills, then get out now! If you cannot learn to have those skills than that is not the job for you!

Use your gifts for good, love on those who need loved on, because trust me, those who are hurting need it and especially if you work in a pediatric hospital, those kids are longing for that.

Well all this article is much longer than I anticipated it to be so I am going to end it here. Have a very blessed beginning of the new year, I pray this year you find wherever Gods guiding you to go. Thank you so much for all your support, and I love you all and more importantly Jesus loves youšŸ™

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BACK IN THE ER! (EMERGENCY ROOM)

July 24, 2024

JOSHUA 1.9

HAVE I NOT COMMANDED YOU? BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS. DO NOT BE AFRAID; DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL BE WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.ā€

Hi all I am back! So if you read the subject line than you already know what most of this article is going to be about🤪 I was in the ER again! Thankfully I was not admitted though, thank you JesusšŸ™.on Monday, July 8th, I woke up totally fine, I was hanging out with my mom and nurse (I have a home health care nurse that comes to my house two times a week) and while I was sitting there with them (mom and nurse) I instantly felt sick, sick is an understatement…

I got extremely nauseous and started going to the bathroom like crazy and immediately had extreme stomach pain, and when I felt the stomach pain I said to my Mom; Mom I think I have Kidney stones again! This pain just reminds me to much of when I had kidney stones.

To anyone who just started following my page, last year I struggled with kidney stones, so I knew what kidney Stones felt like and I knew what I was feeling, felt very similar. The thing that was making me doubt this theory is the fact that I was having Diarrhea (sorry for the TMI) , but when I struggled with kidney stones last year I didn’t have the bathroom issue, so the whole diarrhea thing was tripping me up, plus the pain felt much worse this time around, so that was confusing me too because I knew the kidney stones couldn’t be any bigger than they were last year, so in my mind I kept thinking, well if it is kidney stones and they are smaller, than why does it hurt so bad? Because I kept thinking if it was smaller than it would hurt less, but this didn’t hurt less, it hurt more! And the reason I was so sure they were not bigger than the last time around is because I just had a CT and a bunch of other scans and they were small on all those scans so I knew even if they grew, it was to short of time frame for them to have grown that much, so I decided since I didn’t know for sure that it was kidney stones this time and also because I had no clue the placement of them, than I better go to ER and get checked out.

I wanted to go ER for three reasons, number one, I wanted to make sure it was actually kidney stones and not something else, number two I wanted to make sure if it was kidney stones that they were not stuck, because last year when I had them, I started to develop a blockage because of where they were and at that time they were making everything very inflamed and my Doctors were worried if I didn’t get the stones under control soon, an infection would start, so I wanted to make sure that wasn’t happening again, because when that happens it can get very serious, honestly some people, especially people in conditions like mine, can die from that, so that’s why I wanted to go to ER, I just felt I’d rather be safe than sorry, and go and see what we’re dealing with.

I first waited a few hours to see if the pain would ease up. Everything started about 10ish so once it got to around 12-12:30 and I saw that it was a consistent throbbing pain, on a scale of 0-10, it was a consultant 9 in a half, so once I saw the pain was not improving and I was still šŸ’© like crazy, I said ok let’s go to ER.

I get to ER and immediately they run not only a CT scan but also an ultrasound and on the scans they immediately saw not just one kidney stone but two! And on top of that they also saw that my one kidney had a cyst on it too!

So right now I got 1 kidney stone on the right and one on the left, the one on the right is the bigger one and I think the right kidney is the kidney that has the cyst too.

The good news is neither stone is crazy big so because of that there’s no blockage and there isn’t as much inflammation as there was last time, so as of last week they were pretty confident I’d be able to pass these guys on my own. If I could pass last years stone which was close to a 7cm stone, the thing was so big it was causing everything to get blocked and causing major inflammation, so if I could pass that one with all those issues, than this one should be a walk in the park….

So yeah right now I’m just laying here feeling like I’m about to give birth to a baby, except I’m not, my baby is a giant ugly, evil kidney stone!

I forgot to mention when the Doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with me, they did ask me if I was sexually active and also proceeded to than not believe me when I told them I wasn’t sexually active and so they than snuck behind my back and ran a pregnancy test, ran it without my consent, which I didn’t even think was legal to do but oh well.

I get Doctors have to ask everyone who is an adult about sex, but come on, use your brain! I am 25 inches tall and have a bone disease, do you really think I’m sneaking around with men to have sex, I mean really! Use some common sense once in awhile šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø

I love the hospital I go to and I’m very blessed to have such great health care, I know, I know I’m one of the privileged to have such great health care, I know there are people who don’t have anything so don’t think I’m not grateful because I am, and honestly I have never, ever complained about that hospital or about healthcare in general because yes even though I know we have a lot of work to do, I still know I’m one of the lucky ones to have what I have, even though what I have at times is a mess, it’s still a blessing and so I never want to sound ungrateful, but at the same time I had to at least share that story, because it was insane and also so inappropriate in my opinion.

Other than the kidney stones not much new to report medically, I still have lots of tummy issues but other than that I’m not doing too bad health wise, and I haven’t actually been admitted into a hospital since December of 2023 (I think) so thank you JesusšŸ™

Book is going well but if you all could please remember to write in reviews on Amazon that helps almost just as much as buying the book. Because the more positive reviews I get, the higher my amazon rating goes, and the higher my rating goes the more Amazon does to promote it and also the more my publisher does, so please put in reviews, I’m begging you.

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That’s it for today, thanks so much for all the support., God bless

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Hey all don’t forget about my Patreon Campaign. A Patreon Campaign is basically a partnership. There’s different dollar amounts you can commit to giving. There’s one as low as $5.00 and what I like about this program is, it is not just about giving, it’s about giving and receiving. To all those who commit to giving. There are different prizes/gifts you all get in return for giving. For example: Anyone who commits to donating $50 a Month. I will send you a THE-BOOK-OF-ROO magnet, a OI CAN DO ALL THINGS wristband and a THE-BOOK-OF-ROO Tote bag and maybe some jewelry or something. That’s just the $50 level reward but there’s some other great rewards on the site too plus anyone who joins no matter how much they commit to giving. They will automatically be among the first to receive my book. So check it out.  Patreon Page Click here

THE-BOOK-OF-ROO has options now! If you all are looking for a way to reach me on a more personal level, or maybe want to send a cash donation you can do that now. Please send any cards/Letters/Gifts to this PO Box. PO BOX: THE-BOOK-OF-ROO

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I THINK THATS IT FOR TODAY. THANKS FOR READING AND SUPPORTING ME AND THE-BOOK-OF-ROO. GOD BLESS AND PLEASE REMEMBER KEEP SHINING FOR CHRIST. BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY LOVES YOU, BUT ADORES YOU. ALSO PLEASE REMEMBER IF YOU NEED PRAYER I AND THE-BOOK-OF-ROO READERS ARE HERE TO PRAY. JUST STOP BY OUR PRAYER PAGE AND POST YOUR PRAYER REQUEST AND I PROMISE WE WILL PRAY šŸ˜‡ ALSO PLEASE REMEMBER AS I SAID EARLIER, RUNNING THIS WEBSITE AND WRITING/PUBLISHING A BOOK DOES ALL COST MONEY. SO IF YOU’RE FEELING LED PLEASE DONATE TO MY SITE. ITS VERY EASY TO DO. WE HAVE MANY OPTIONS NOW BUT THE EASIEST OPTION IS JUST TO CLICK THE ā€œDONATEā€ BUTTON AND FILL OUT THE FORM. PLEASE KNOW I AM GRATEFUL FOR EACH AND EVERY DONATION THAT COMES IN NO MATTER IF ITS THROUGH THE PATREON PAGE, PO BOX OR PAYPAL. GOD BLESS, I LOVE YOU ALL AND MORE IMPORTANTLY JESUS LOVES YOU. KEEP ON SHINING FOR CHRIST ā¤ļø

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