Topic: Illinois ladies facing bc

Mar 29, 2020 07:57AM IllinoisLady wrote:

I am thinking of all of you so much there in the Chicago area. I know you are having many more ( epicenter ) covid-19 cases there and these thoughts create a heavy heart. I am hoping and praying that everyone get through this with as little pain or loss as possible. Just know that you are in my heart and my daily cares about you. Sending love and hope for all of us and all the citizens of the world.

Mar 31, 2020 07:01AM IllinoisLady wrote:

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real living of life with the feeling of freedom and self-expression. Play is the business of childhood, and its continuation in later years is the prolongation of youth. -Walter Rauschenbusch

Apr 1, 2020 07:22AM IllinoisLady wrote:

However humble our circumstances or undramatic our talents, our true purpose has been revealed. We were meant to be this person at this time and place. Not only for ourselves, but for you and other people—we were meant to make this particular contribution to the world.And so we must do it well. Do it with faith and with patience, with all our strength and passion. And in so doing discover who we really are. - Marjorie Holmes

Apr 3, 2020 12:26PM - edited Apr 3, 2020 01:00PM by IllinoisLady

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,

committed people can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

Idealism detached from action is just a dream.

But idealism allied with pragmatism,

with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit,

is very exciting.

It's very real.

It's very strong.

- Bono

Individual commitment to a group effort -

that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

Apr 4, 2020 10:31PM - edited Apr 4, 2020 10:42PM by ChiSandy

Bob just came home (midnight)--suddenly his days are longer because of mask/gown/glove procedures. (He gets one N95 per hospital, and is expected to reuse it till it falls apart. He doesn't get a paper cap either). My heart sank when he told me he was at Little Company of Mary, where he saw 22 patients--15 of whom have COVID-19. He was not in the ICU, and he stayed 6' from their beds, but still...none of his colleagues (all a decade younger--he is 70, smokes 1/4-1/2 pack a day and drinks a lot at night) are going there. The rival cardiology group on the SW Side has forbidden its doctors to see any but strictly cardiology patients--and not at all at Little Company (where those two Evergreen Park Wal-Mart workers died). Advocate Christ now has two COVID-only floors. At least he gets an N95: the only masks the nurses get are the simple surgical ones.

Yet he won't spray his clothes down at the hospital, won't leave his coat in the car, and won't take his shoes off inside the door. He promises he will go upstairs to strip & shower. I'm now terrified to do laundry (I will now have to wear gloves)--we don't have a separate hamper or laundry basket. Do I order him to sleep in a separate room now? He likes the TV in our bedroom--but all my clothes are in there (and I have four times as much as he does). He also likes the den TV and is willing to sleep on the sofa there--but that's also where the closet is where we keep all our paper goods. His knees can't handle the climb up to & down from the attic bedroom & bath--and there's only an antenna TV in there. And where will he eat?

It's getting real. He has multiple risk factors, made worse by his refusing to retire, lest his staff & partner lose their insurance. There's a possibility I could lose him before our next anniversary in June. Do I insist that from now on he sleep at a hotel--knowing that if he gets symptoms I may never see him again?

You know, as a doctor's wife I long ago resigned myself to having my family take a back seat to his patients--and by his taking on more call from his colleagues, giving priority to them too. But it was only at the price of our emotional well being. Now he's putting his colleagues and staff ahead of OUR LIVES. He never signed on for this when he decided to go to medical school. No doctor in America (except epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists who go into Third World hot zones) does.

And now I could die sooner too. What's the point of having beaten cancer?

Apr 5, 2020 10:19PM ChiSandy wrote:

A little easier today, although Bob did see a patient go into sudden total heart block--he'd read about it but this is the first time he actually saw it. No more hospital rounds for the next two weeks, hallelujah.

Apr 6, 2020 08:51AM IllinoisLady wrote:

An extra for today because I think we need it:

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life and is prophetic of eternal good."

-- Petrarch

Apr 7, 2020 07:39AM IllinoisLady wrote:

Simply give others a bit of yourself: a thoughtful act, a helpful
idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense
of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out
of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put
it into the other person's mind and heart.

Charles H. Burr

Apr 9, 2020 06:39AM IllinoisLady wrote:

Each day is a time of great possibilities. Many experiences are before me that will inspire me on my upward path of growth and discovery. Knowing this, I greet each day with enthusiasm. An enthusiastic attitude is an energizing one. When I am enthusiastic, I tap into an inner wellspring of energy that promotes change in my body and in my life. The positive power that is generated by enthusiasm improves my circulation and helps restore health to my body. It stirs up joy within me and calls it forth into expression. Enthusiasm for life brings out the beauty that I was once unable to see. -unattributed

Apr 10, 2020 11:11PM zulo wrote:

what is afikomen

Apr 11, 2020 02:34PM Moderators wrote:

Hi zulo, and welcome to our Community. Afikoman is a half-piece of matzo which is broken in two during the early stages of the Passover Seder and set aside to be eaten as a dessert after the meal.

Tell us a bit about what brings you here.

Warmly,

The Mods

Apr 12, 2020 09:30PM ChiSandy wrote:

Hi, zulo! The afikomen is the middle piece of three "sheets" of matzo, broken in as many pieces as there are kids attending the Seder, wrapped in napkins and hidden by the head of the family for the kids to find after the meal--and redeem for money, candy or trinkets. (In modern times, nobody really wants to eat it as dessert, because we've been eating matzo throughout the meal). Bob quipped that we should have sprinkled the two pieces with catnip for the kitties to find, as they were our only Seder "guests" this year.

Apr 14, 2020 07:00AM IllinoisLady wrote:

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -Blaine Lee

Apr 16, 2020 07:22AM IllinoisLady wrote:

[The Native American] believes profoundly in silence—the sign of perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The people who preserve their selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence—not a leaf, as it were, astir on the tree; not a ripple upon the surface of the shining pool—theirs, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he or she will say:"They are self-control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity, and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character." -Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman)

Apr 18, 2020 07:13AM - edited Apr 18, 2020 07:14AM by IllinoisLady

When we are conscious of being part of a wider universe, we can begin to see that what we do matters. Every action we take has a consequence somewhere, whether good or bad. Everything that happens affects a part of the whole body of life. Having this knowledge of being part of something larger may motivate us to contribute to the greater good in whatever ways we can. -Sallirae Henderson