A JOYFUL NOISE

During these past few months, I struggle a lot and ask why. Yet I'm also learning to trust in God and remember all the good He has done in my life/ I don't remember all the names of the physicians that has taken care of me for 31 years at UVA, but I do remember my 2 awesome attending physicians who has taken care of me (one has retired and one is still taken care of me). I remember the true concern and help they wanted to give me. And of course, my ONE TRUE PHYSICIAN! I don't remember all the cards, gifts, etc and what they were or what they said but the sincerity behind it, I will always remember. (Dad had brought down a bag of stuffed animals from the attic for me to go through to give away. Though I have forgotten who gave me what I refused to let him give them away because I told my folks...someone cared enough to give me this as a child, I want to keep it.) I don't remember how many times Warren and Erma gave up their day to spend a day with me at the hospi...

Most of you know the struggles I have been facing over the past 8 months. It seems as if I face one physical ailment after another and honestly, I'm worn out. My energy level has never really gotten to where it once was and my weight still fluctuates as well as how I feel after eating....so on an so forth. I've been through countless testing and aside from the diagnosis of gastroperesis, the doctors aren't sure what's going on with my body; it's a puzzle for all of us. Last week I was struggling with a lot of stomach and back pain and running a fever that my primary care doctor order a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvis. She had also put me on a different antibiotic for the kidney infection i was diagnosed with a week earlier in the UVA ER. Because my symptoms was getting worse and not better, my doctor decided that a CT scan would be the best approach to figure out if there is anything else going on. While my abdomen CT scan looked normal, my p...