Welcome Our New Contributors

Two things have changed today.  The first, I changed the blog name (rather subtly) to “Insights – Journal Of Life“.  This small change is made as I welcome three new contributors (item number two).  Not only will you continue to have my stories, testimonies and such to read…but you’ll soon …

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How I Got Here

It occurred to me when one of my cousins recently reconnected with me.  Many of my friends (and even family members) don’t know how I got where I am.  I am speaking of both medical, physical, and spiritual.  Therefore, I am going to try and post an article (or series of articles) …

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Blood Donation Time Approaches

No, I am not talking about the Red Cross variety…however I always encourage anyone and everyone who can donate blood to do so. What I am talking about is my upcoming appointment at my Doc’s office. It happens to be one of those, “ask and ye shall receive” type situations. …

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Dried Up Bones

Some of my friends know that I have been dealing with “body-wide pain” over the last couple months. The medications that I have been prescribed are not what I need. Believe it or not, they are too powerful and of the wrong class/type. There will be future posts on this …

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Only By The Grace Of God (…fourteen years)

Fourteen years ago…sometime around 4:00pm…March 20, 2003…I entered one of Vanderbilt University Hospital’s operating rooms to receive two lungs generously donated by a grieving family. Sometime between nine and twelve hours later (March 21, 2003)…I would be breathing through lungs I wasn’t born with but graciously received from that family’s …

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