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Monday, May 28, 2012

Long hiatus

Been away for a while, I got very sick. Bronchitis, sinusitis, otitis, and finally, bilateral conjunctivitis to wrap it all up. I was a mess, seeing multiple doctors, taking time off from work and everything else, numerous antibiotics and prednisone. Not fun, felt so powerless. If anything, it strengthened my compassion for the sick, and made me take stock of the horror of my work treadmill. SO I stopped accepting new patients, cut my schedule down drastically. Took some time off.
I'm much better for it.
Thanks to my husband for giving me a butt kick and forcing me to stay still and to rest, being supportive all the way. We recently celebrated our 10th anniversary and went away somewhere quiet and beautiful.
It's Memorial Day. While I appreciate the day off and the "start of summer" moniker, I always think of the vets I treated, their stories, their humility and sense of humor, when I worked at various VA hospitals. They are true American heroes, I respect them with all of my heart.
It saddens me so much when I hear of deaths of our service men and women in the combat theaters around the world. What a giant waste. I don't need perpetual reminding of the waste of war. We need to use more diplomacy, and we need to leave the heathens to themselves more often than not. We give them money and weapons and then they turn it on us, 9/11. We're not going to "fix" Iraq/Afghanistan/Iran/Syria whatever...I am so tired of the constant warring. Just think for a minute of our people in their prime who have been destroyed by war.