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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.

Also please continue to share the book with your loved ones and with anyone who you think needs a little encouragement and inspiration. I cannot believe in just a few short weeks I will be 38 years old, OMG 😱 God is so good and life is such a blessing. Please remember no matter how hard things get, stay grateful and appreciative, even if all you can find to appreciate is the fact that you got air in your lungs, do it! Appreciate that, don’t wait for the blessing to come to than start appreciating your life, appreciate it now, right now, life is to short…

I’m not going to put their name for privacy reason but a few weeks ago someone made a very generous donation to THE-BOOK-OF-ROO. So I just want to say thank you, you know who you are and I just wanted to take a second to acknowledge you and also say, you don’t know how much of a blessing that donation was to the-book-of-roo. Everything I do cost money, writing my book GOLD THE LORD IS MY LIGHT cost money, creating this website cost money, filming the videos I film cost money, creating and recording my podcast cost money, e very thing is a cost and THE-BOOK-OF-ROO definitely does not make a big enough profit to pay for all these things, most things come out of my personal pocket, so when people do make donations to the-book-of-roo it truly does help. I do not earn any money, nor do I get any income from doing any of this, but it does cost a lot to keep this all going and the few donations that do come in, definitely makes a difference, your generosity keeps this going, so to you all, thank you, please keep joining my paid membership on Patreon and please keep supporting everything we do here, and if you cannot afford to support us financially, that’s fine, please don’t feel bad, but just because you can’t support us financially doesn’t mean you can’t do things to support in your own way. If you can’t join Patreon paid membership, than join the free one, or share this page with a friend,

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

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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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I ALMOST DIED OF COVID 19!

December 8, 2023

Psalm 119:30

I HAVE CHOSEN THE WAY OF FAITHFULNESS; I HAVE SET MY HEART ON YOUR LAWS.

VLOG I FILMED EXPLAINING VERY BRIEFLY HOW I BATTLED COVID19

Hi all, it has been one heck of a month, it’s all a blur to be honest. I give a pretty in-depth explanation in this video but let’s break it down even further.

In the beginning of November I developed God awful stomach pains, the worst stomach pains I ever had in my life. The pains were getting worse and worse so I finally broke down and went to the EMERGENCY ROOM. It took them not even forty minutes to realize the pains I was feeling were kidney stones! I know when everything went down everyone kept warning me that it could be my appendix and I appreciated those warnings, you all were so sweet, but we knew it wasn’t that because I do not have an appendix lol. My appendix was taken out years ago. So because we knew that, we also were able to pin point pretty quickly that it was kidney stones. So ok great kidney stones, not the best news but not the worst. I took the news like a big girl and got myself connected with a urologist and at the time we decided to try to treat it with meds and once the holidays were over we’d go in and remove the one for sure because the one is pretty large and so they know that’s going to take a miracle to break up the way we need it to and also do it within a timely manner because the longer I sit with this thing the way it is the bigger chance I have of infection and sepsis and once sepsis starts you are on the clock, you literally have minutes to get it under control or you could die.

At the time I made a deal with urologist to just let me get through the holiday than they can do what they have to. At the the time they agreed that was a reasonable request and so they agreed and we’re giving me my time.

Than all hell broke loose lol. First they screwed up my pain meds when I was admitted and so I wasn’t even getting 50% of what I should have gotten, what I usually get. So because I wasn’t getting the correct painkillers I was spiraling out of control and going through severe withdrawals. Once they got that under control I realized my eyes were burning and swollen and I just did not feel like myself and I stated several times. You guys I think I caught Covid 19, everyone kept telling me I was letting my imagination get the best of me and that I was fine and if anything I was just having a allergic reaction to the kidney stone Medications. I never really bought into that theory but I figured they are the doctors so they know best. The reason I was so adamant in saying I had Covid is because a family member had just gotten over it and they had all the symptoms I was describing. Now I was no where near this family member but I still felt that what I had was the same, but I had no way of proving it so I just kept letting nature take its course.

Finally the weekend after thanksgiving the crap hit the fan sort of speak and I was drowning. .I woke up at around 2AM on, I think it was Tuesday and I told my mom, we have to get to the ER I am dying! It hit me so fast though that at first she didn’t even know what to think, but she knew something was up so she took me in and immediately they saw I had a pretty high fever and I had so much fluid building up inside my body that I was literally drowning!

The hard part though was proving why I was drowning because my Covid test came out negative at first. My mom is actually the one who saved my life. For 2 days we kept begging them to re-test me because we knew Covid was the only logical explanation for what was happening to me. I was so swollen I could not open my eyes and my arms were so puffy I could not bend them. Thankfully my mom ended up being my saving grace because even though they wouldn’t re-test me they would test her lol and immediately when she got tested she was positive!

Once we knew she was positive we than took those results back to my doctors and told them re-test me now!and sure enough when they re-tested me I was indeed positive and so we than got me back on antibiotics and I am on them to this point. I finally finished the IV version Monday and they transitioned me over to pill form and I will be on pill form till almost the 1st of January! Which sucks lol. One thing I hate is how antibiotics make you feel but I can’t complain because it could have been much worse.

Ok so where does this lead me? I honestly don’t have that full answer yet, I do think I am going to be left scarred for awhile. I may not ever get the normal I had, this just might be my new ā€œnormalā€ but right now I’m not sure. Right now I’m just enjoying the fact that I am alive and not looking into the future to much.

What about the kidney stones? What about them? Lol again I honestly don’t know, one thing I know is my body cannot physically handle surgery right now, I am very clear on that so for now I’m just taking baby steps and Praying God protects the kidneys / stones. What could I use from you all? Prayer! Please pray the Lord

continues giving me strength because I need it lol. I am exhausted, this took everything out of not only me but also my mom, and I am heartbroken that she couldn’t even rest and recover from COVID like a normal person because she was to busy keeping me alive. Your amazing mom. I will never forget what you went through this week nor will I forget what another family member did for me.

One thing I can say still holds true and that is that you learn who you can count on during moments like this and I can honestly say there’s only one person I truly knew had my back besides my mom so to them, thank you and I love you šŸ˜˜šŸ’‹

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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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