by admin | Apr 10, 2015 | Depressed, Hope, Life, Love, Macmillan Nurse, Suicide
Why did ten young people wake up one morning and convene at a Central London Hospital to take part in a suicide pact? What possessed them to do this? What possessed them to drink a concoction of stolen hospital drugs mixed with chemicals, the mixture so strong that it dissolved their innards in minutes? They died in so much pain – their dead faces were literally gargoyle in agony as blood oozed out of their orifices. From back blurb of U Murder U (Suicide). 14 year old Aisha Patel was one of the young people at the hospital that morning – this is her story. Aisha Patel had a dream – she wanted to study medicine. She was fourteen years old and knew exactly where she wanted to study medicine and what she wanted to specialise in when she finished her basic training. Her paternal grandmother had died of breast cancer last year and Aisha had spent a lot of time with her grandmother before her demise and had seen firsthand how great the Macmillan nurses had been with her grandmother and how the doctors at the hospital had taken good care of her. She told her grandmother of her dream and her grandmother had given Aisha her blessing and told Aisha that she could be whatever she dreamed. When her grandmother had died Aisha felt like a part of her had also died because her parents and three brothers never seemed to have time for her. Being the third child it was easy to get lost and be invisible. In her family boys were valuable and girls were...
by admin | Jan 12, 2015 | blog, Hope, Life, Suicide
Hi Readers, I am currently in Orlando and although the weather has been mostly nice and warm we have had some cold and rainy days. Today however is warm and as I sit on the balcony of my third floor condo and look out onto the miniature crazy golf course below and the lake beyond that, I am thankful for my life, liberty and love. I went to a wedding on Saturday at the Gaylord Palms and I tell you, it was beautiful, just like in the movies. The couple looked so in love and the elegant ceremony was a reflection of this love. The groom wore military whites and his groomsmen were all dressed the same and held swords for the couple to walk under after the ceremony. The whole thing brought tears to my eyes and sent a river of gratitude to God that I was here to celebrate with the couple Anthonia and Marlow, and their families. I went to Uni with Anthonia’s mother and as we sat and reminisced about the old days it hit me, who would have thought back then that we would be here now, in this beautiful setting celebrating the love of these two beautiful people. Yesterday, I went to see the Oprah Winfrey movie, SELMA in the cinema with my daughter Stephanie and again I was moved to tears. The movie showed a side of Martin Luther King Jr (excellently acted by David Oyelowo) that I never knew about and a strength in his wife Coretta Scott King which I found commendable. It showed the fight and struggle that Black...
