She’s a bundle of enthusiasm, in her late 20’s. And she enjoys life, I mean really enjoys life. Why is that important? Because she has been deaf since birth. At six weeks she was wearing hearing aids. Or should I say her mom was trying to make her wear hearing aids. She was more inclined to take them out and chew on them. Not once did she heed the hearing aid battery manufacturer’s warning that...
I have gotten three calls over the last week that went to message. On the last message I finally learned that it was Dr. Casey’s office calling. I called Dr. Casey’s office to tell them I was not a patient of Dr. Casey, never had been, and didn’t think I would be. They couldn’t find my name in their computer system to delete it from the automatic call. They said if I received any more calls, to...
Update 5/28/17 AM in her Own Words I am going to preface this with a note that this story isn’t a continuation of the last. This one is one that has been on my mind for the past 1.5 months. I grew up in a community that was fortunate to never be in need of really anything. I was always fed and had clean clothes. I was never forced to go to school unless my mom could tell I was blatantly...
I remember it well. 1946, 1947, and maybe 1948. Depending on what kind of workday my dad had had, we would dash off to Ponce DeLeon Park, the home of the Atlanta Crackers Double A team in the Southern League. A week night game. Sometimes we’d go out on a Sunday afternoon for a doubleheader, that was two games for the price of one. When the Birmingham Barons were in town, that made it even better...
The phone rang. Normally I check the phone ID, but something said answer the phone. I did. A choir started singing Happy Birthday to me. Holy cow it’s the Heavenly Choir singing Happy Birthday to me. Wait. You know what that means? It’s time for me to go. Now I realize I’ve been fighting these cancers for 20 years, but this is a most inopportune time for me to depart this earth. There are...
Update 2/8/17 What’s God Got To Do With It? “Everything – this job would weigh anyone down without an abiding faith that God’s plan will come to pass.” That is Dr. Joelle Hamilton’s response to the title. I’ve met some doctors who thought they were God. Not Dr. Joelle. She knows a doctor is not God. A doctor cannot perform miracles. She accepts that. That does not mean she cannot...