Butterfly Walk is Sunday

Look at my web site angela@lupusadvocacy.org for further information on the walk or go to http://www.amsterlupus.org/. It all, 100%, goes to lupus research at The University of Michigan lupus research clinic. Make a donation of $3.00 or $3,000 or walk or wheel for $15.00 includes a breakfast. See you there outside of Detroit.

Αληθεια-Truth: Greek Word Study- "patience" μακροθυμια (pronounced ...
The verb form is makrothumeo “to be patient” and the adverb is makrothumon “patiently” and makros “long, distant” (Robinson 85). Greek words that are ...

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A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician ...

I can not help but believe that there is a connection to these two words because one must bare an amazing amount of patience to be a patient. The long waits in Dr.'s offices, waiting for tests results, diseases which take months and even years to diagnose, long days feeling tired and sick, endless sleepless nights, going from one medication or treatment to another finding the perfect one, careers and lives on hold, families challenged and the list continues. One must hold tight to waiting and the eternal limbo with a long-term illness. When people speed pass me on the road or act inpatient in the grocery line I wonder if they understand how flipping hard it is for me to just stand there? I want to ask them why they can not simply wait, perhaps strike up a conversation? Then I want to say : "Hey man I am on chemo, had three hips replaced, standing on thin and dying bones and fatigued as hell due to a life threatening illness so chill out and be glad you are not in Iraq getting the crap blown out of you. So There".

I walk through the halls of the hospital with waiting rooms filled with sad eyes and worried looks of loved ones, people asleep on benches, Dr.'s running from room to room trying to stick to the schedule of fifteen minutes per person so insurance companies and the head chiefs are happy. That is patience.

I think we grow a country of fast food inpatient people who can not even stay off the phone for five minutes while driving to look around, pay attention, smell the roses and live in the moment. It is an amazing moment if you are breathing, fed, loved and loving. I am blessed to have learned this and it made me a better person.

So now as I wait for more tests and more positive chemo results I still heal, go to PT three times a week, Yoga once a week, garden and carry on with a minimal existence that is simple and worth waiting for. And my husband comes home tomorrow after two weeks in Asheville so I am a Happy girl !!!! Now he is worth waiting for !!!!!