Bill Phillip's | Transformation

Back to the hospital...

Last Night my Dad was admitted to the hospital for the 8th time this year related to heart problems (CHF, HT, & Atrial Fibrilation). Bummer.  He was eating ok for awhile when we are around, and then he simply stops and reverts.  I think he has a lack of consicousness for what they are asking him to do (control calories and salt intake).  I think hes going through total system shut down.  His fear to do anything for fe...

When those you care most about give up...

Ive come to the conclusion my Dad just doesnt care about his health.  Today is his 60th birthday.  The doctors have told him specifically that if he does not change the way he eats, drastically cutting back on his salt intake (no more than 2000mg/day, which is plenty really!) that he will die.  He has congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes and emphysema.  He is ONLY 60.   It saddens me and yea pisses me off...

Where I came from Part 2....

So there was that pretty bad asthma attack...I was 19, just going into my sophomore year of school.  My "first love" was dissolving.  Did I mention she had an inhaler in her room upstairs that she was too tired to get!  I do wish her the best, but if that is any indication of her caring for me as a person, Im glad that it ended when it did!...Next two years of my life were filled with uncertainty in school but I had a bla...

Where I came from...

I am so fortunate to be given the life that I have been given...My parents had and continue to have their struggles, but all in all they did the best for my sister and I that they did.  My dad was born into a poor immigrant Italian and Polish family.  My Mother was not much higher up on the economic scale.  My father lived under a quick hand and swift belt.  Some today might want to say he was abused.  He however dealt wi...