Hurricane Katrina Starts the Odyssey

Hurricane Katrina Starts the Odyssey
Fate Perpetuates It

26 June 2010

Grandest Pleasure

Wow! It is with grandest pleasure that I can share this amazon link with you of "Misadventures of a New Orleans Girl," my new book. (ISBN 1451591314)
... literary / creative nonfiction ... BIG smiles.)))

Here is the news release: www.MisadventuresofaNewOrleansGirl.com

Tell your worst enemies - and bests.

Recommended summer reading!

22 June 2010

Clairvoyant Psyche

Strength


Did you hear about the man who cut off his left arm after it got stuck in his water heater? 

He says he discovered strength that he didn't know he had. 

Imagine being in that predicament! Alone. Trapped. Dying. Your dog upstairs without water...

He had cut his arm nerves. Do you have an idea of intense pain?! Above the pain, the man was thinking straight.

I've been using my sense of humor to help me cope with 90% loss of my left arm. No, it isn't amputated; it's there. It just can't be used for much. 

Broken is better than gone. 

When do you accept something and give up trying? When is hope lost?

I don't give up easily; but, you can't mend a shattered lightbulb. That's like trying to glue together individual grains of sand. 

Doc describes my humerus as a "nonunion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humerus

Only path is bone graft - another surgery. Nerve damage tops risks. Saddened, not angry about the nonunion, my hope has gone to hospital without me. 

Thinking again of that man who saved his life by sawing off his arm, survival won out. Human psyche is powerful and clairvoyant. His told him he could have a one-arm future or no future. 'No way out' made him think, then act.

Can you see how this relates to BP oil victims? They are losing their lives.

Will their hope be smothered to death? Is that hope already murdered?

Post traumatic stress 'disorder' ought to be renamed 'attack.' 

"Misadventures of a New Orleans Girl" demonstrates positive coping skills, during and after traumas. (Excitement: Final book proof this week. Then on amazon.com before New Orleans book release festivities, this autumn.)  

What tests your hope?