Tag Archive | illness
Love in cold blood
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
A healing embrace The gift of a loving soul Wears many faces A burden borne for others Lightening the heart of both * What I had observed in my fish tank with my little dying fish, I was privileged to see again in my son’s pond. His…
A life on the scales
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
My son has a sick fish in his pond over which we are both worrying. The trouble with pond fish is that they have many places to hide if they are unwell, and you only usually see them from above, so unless there is an obvious and…
Laryngitis and a Polygamous Relationship with an Aldi Raspberry Sorbet
Originally posted on Suzie Speaks:
Last weekend I felt really rough. I put it down to being hungover after going out with my friend to celebrate her birthday on Saturday night – my failing voice and sore throat was initially thought to have been caused by singing a bit too enthusiastically as I was dancing…
Making A Sound
Originally posted on patrick o'scheen:
In the proverbial forest, I fell without much of a noise. The subtle rustling of leaves, the scant passing of a single bird…no one was there except me. I’d like to think that someone has noticed my absence, my tumble, but in the face of so many posts by…
Strangers Help Fulfill Terminally Ill 5-Year-Old’s Bucket List
Originally posted on Project Light to Life:
Today I came across an article in People that I want to share. Five-year-old Liam Myrick has undergone 14 rounds of chemo, nine major surgeries, and two bone marrow transplants, but he is working hard to cross items off his bucket list. A three-time cancer survivor who heard…
Robin Williams Fulfilled Terminal Cancer Patient’s Bucket List Item
Originally posted on Project Light to Life:
Just before I was about to meet a friend in New York City, who works for ABC News, she texted me saying that Robin Williams had just died. Like nearly everyone I know, I was so sad to hear this news. Not only was Williams a great actor,…
Book review: ‘Everybody’s Got Something’ by Robin Roberts
Originally posted on write meg!:
Television newscaster Robin Roberts has had her share of struggles. Treated for breast cancer in 2007, the “Good Morning America” co-anchor expected to make a full recovery and put her fight behind her . . . until five years later, when she learned she would need a life-saving bone marrow…
Ebola Outbreak
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Ebola Outbreak i heard another person in my village died today, we didn’t dare touch the body, his organs has bled out there are no white people here white as ghosts, they are going home my friends in America tell me we are not on the news, only Jewish people…
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