Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Category: Compassionate Medical Care

  • Take a Breath

    Take a Breath

    I’m trying very hard to do something that I never learned to do as a child and that is to control my emotions. There are a few programs in schools these days teaching kids how to modulate their emotions. If they feel angry or sad or frustrated they are taught how to take a breath…

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  • Death

    Death A magician is called to the bedside. He opens his coat, its lining revealed shiny like a young minnow. Snaps it around the waiting soul, then unfurls it up to the sky. The murmuration happens. A round of applause crackles as you lift into the light. There are black and fragile wings, no bodies,…

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  • Scoliosis and Stenosis: a journey

    Three weeks ago I had a seven hour surgery on my spine. Initially, it was supposed to be 3 to 4 hours. As the surgery began, it was clearer to my doctor that it was more complicated and would take a longer time. The long and the short of it are that I am very…

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  • My Mother gets Religeon or…

    My Mother gets Religeon or...

    When my mother was dying she began to wonder about religion. My Mom had a great way of putting things. Once, when we went to Walmart for picture hangers, she told me I was too competent and that was why there was no man in my life. I found this hysterical but also probably accurate.…

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  • Colonoscopy Time

    I am writing because I wanted to express my concern about the medical centers across the country that perform common procedures like colonoscopies on a daily basis. While I understand that Covid has changed a lot about how one interacts with patients, I was very disappointed to be treated in the way I was prior…

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