As Life Goes Ever On

As I sit and write this evening, my heart is with our niece.  She awakens tomorrow to the battle of her life; a 6 to 16 hour surgery to try to remove as much of the cancer from her body as possible.  The best news so far:  the chemotherapy was effective at reducing and slowing the cancer.  My significant other sees little use for prayer and does not believe in its power or efficacy.  I mentioned the comfort it gave to those of his family who knew he had chosen to pray with our niece when the news first broke about her having cancer and he did not quite sneer at me, but that's ok, he still chose to pray rather than not when she needed him to do so.  I also tried to mention how much prayer helps me also.  Not quite as negative a response.  I think he knows I was praying for him the entire time he was so ill when he was in liver failure and after his transplant.  A lot of love is expressed through prayer and a lot of strength gained by those doing the praying.  Peace can also be found there when it is no where else.  That seems like a lot of power to me right there and that is just the very basic stuff, the really spiritual, "knock your socks off" stuff, only adds to what we all have access to 24/7 - God's ear, His heart, His mind, His Love.

Justice For Justina!

Wow!  It doesn't seem like an entire year (almost) since I last logged in and sounded off but, here it is and here I am...late, but still some how on time in my own little space-time continuum.

It did, however, take the news of what that poor young girl, Justina, and her family have been going through to get me back here.  The state of Massachusetts, the DCS, Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard University have all joined together to commit an atrocity so disgusting and heinous in its execution I sincerely hope enough people WAKE THE HELL UP and scream their heads off in order to put a permanent stop to such things ever taking place again ever!  How Boston Children's Hospital can justify defending their "experts" who obviously were, and are, NOT expert enough to know what they were doing to the point of severely compromising the health and well being of Justina to the point of endangering her life; torturing her family FOR NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON, and literally, trying to play god (and failing miserably),I just do not know.

My great grandparents graduated from Harvard Medical School and Radcliffe.  My great grandfather died in 1932 as the result of lung damage sustained when he ran into a burning house to save a crippled child who could not make it out on her own.  I will always feel proud of my great grandfather for having done that but I doubt I will ever look so favorably upon the school he chose to attend ever again.  I also believe he would be shocked and ashamed at what Harvard has become:  a bunch of blinged out hogs wallowing in their own muck, fondling themselves and thinking, "My, aren't we something special?"

My only hope and prayer this evening is that Justina get the immediate medical attention she needs for what sounds like a severe case of sepsis at her port site, that she be returned to her family's loving arms with all due haste and that the course of treatment proven effective be once again implemented in order to, hopefully, restore her to full heath.

Any hopes I have for the dismissal of doctors claiming expertise so sadly not in evidence and severely overdue reparations due to Justina and her family will have to wait for another day, another tirade.

God bless,
Izzlebug