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1st Amendment ~ Please note that this is a personal journalist effort by a heart transplant patient. Any reference to volunteering, other patients, medical practioners, family members, physical places or locations will be based on composites of of real and fictional people and may be antedotal in nature.
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Tag Archives: Blessed
Blessed Is He
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.” ~ William Arthur Ward
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Admire, Blessed, Envy, Flatter, Follow, Imitate, Lead, Manipulate, Praise
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Trouble ……… That NEVER Happened
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” ~ Mark Twain This past week has been filled with stress/anxiety. In the end, it was wasted energy. I had been scheduled … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Anxiety, Blessed, Catheterization, Donor, Fear, God, Gratitude, Heart Cath, Heart Transplant, Life, PTSD
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Say Nothing
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.” ~ George Eliot
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Bing, Blessed, Google, Keep Quiet, Nothing To Say, Say Nothing, Yahoo
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Blessed Thanksgiving
I have been blessed And I feel like I’ve found my way I thank God for all I’ve been given At the end of every day I have been blessed With so much more than I deserve To be here … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Blessed, Donor, Grateful, Grateful Heart, Thankful, Thanksgiving
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Annual Medical Tests
“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” ~ Hippocrates In total, I made three trips to my transplant center this week. The first was for testing, the second was to volunteer and get … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Blessed, Echo, EKG, God, Gratitude, Heart Transplant, Labs, Medical tests
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Do The Math
“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” ~ Eric Hoffer
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Arithmetic, Blessed, blessings, Math
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Today, Touch Someone’s Life
“Today I woke up ….. could have been dead …. but God blessed me with another day to touch someone’s life in a positive manner.” ~ DAP
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Blessed, God, Positivity, Today, Touch
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Broken Heart, Hospitals and TEN Years
“If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.” (Note – This post will be a rambling bunch of thoughts) For the past few weeks I’ve had … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Blessed, Broken Heart, Grateful, Heart Transplant, Thankful
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A Good Life
“A good life is when you smile a lot, dream big and realize just how blessed you are!”
Posted in Daily Insight, General, Heart Transplant
Tagged Blessed, Dream, Good Life, Life
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Blessed Life
“The word “lucky” is an understatement. I think the word “BLESSED” best describes my life.”