Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: medication

  • Beautiful Eyes – Take 2

    Sacred Stories

    Yet another medication for her husband….

    The nurse practitioner answered her inquiry by saying, “After all he has gone through, it would be a huge mistake for him to not take this.”

    Almost mid-sentence, the nurse practitioner paused and gave her a compliment, “You have the most beautiful eyes.”

    The cashier who had prayed “May all your news today be good news” had used those exact words. That was the day they discovered her husband would be having open-heart surgery. (Previous post: See Cashier)

    She had been resistant to giving him this particular medication for months…. and she had not been giving it to her husband since he had been discharged from the hospital.

    The next morning the message was clear: All good news!

    That nurse practitioner had (albeit quite out of character) used those exact words as an invitation to come back into into trust.

  • Let’s Change Your Medication

    Sacred Stories

    He was navigating a medical condition with as much grace as possible when one more sleepless night due to pain motivated him to determine, “I am going to tell the doctor that we need to do something else.”

    The following morning the doctor called him, saying, “Let’s change your medication.”

    That was such a confirmation!

    Dean Ornish, M.D. was quoted as having said, “There is no “I” in wellness.”

    It is so important (especially during difficult conditions) to realize we are ever-connected.

  • Amitiza

    Her mother-in-law was on a long-list of medications. After having been in and out of the hospital, and going home on oxygen, supervision of the medications became necessary.

    Pages and pages of information, additions and deletions, notes and question marks—it was overwhelming trying to keep everything straight! Something needed to be done.

    She took the dozen-or-so sheets of paper with the medications listed on them to her home, and she was intent on creating an organized Word file listing each medication clearly. She looked up the generic and the brand name, and she carefully recorded the prescribed dosage along with specific instructions (such as whether it was to be taken with food or on an empty stomach).

    It was an arduous task as she had to look up each drug to know what it was prescribed for. HGTV was playing in the background. Just as she started to look up Amitiza, an ad for that very medication came on.

    She recognized the affirmation of her gift of loving support! Nothing we do lovingly is missed….
    amitiza