Rounding the Corner…

COVID-19 is a very strange disease.  We are learning more about it and in doing so, understanding how better to treat it.  I was recipient of the lessons past experiences had taught medical providers, and study of the COVID-19 virus taught them the dos and don’ts of treatment from which I benefited.  One of the

Faith…

Fides quaerens intellectum…”faith seeking understanding.” St. Augustine I retired as a minister in the United Methodist Church after twenty-three years of service.  Admittedly, this was a mixed bag.  I had been the pastor-in-charge for several churches, and when pastoring in Missouri, was the pastor of a 2-point charge.  Every other week I would lead the

The ER…

When my wife saw that my oxygen saturation was 84, she was quite alarmed.  She didn’t say much at the time, but unbeknownst to me, she consulted our PCP and friend, Dr. Elias Hernandez, and her daughter, an ER nurse who works in a COVID unit.  Both said the same thing…get him to the ER. 

Post-Truth COVID-19 “Facts”

While researching a different topic, I began to think a great deal about truth, especially the phenomenon known as “post-truth.”  Minted as the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, post-truth denotes an environment where people judge the facts based upon how the facts measure up to their ideological point of view, a point of