| A True Story | | | | side of the room, a man, thirty years older than my |
| This is a story about my mother. It illustrates how your | | | | brother, a foot taller, with almost no hair, teeth, or |
| mind can affect your health. My brother was in the | | | | beard, occupied the bed most visible. My brother has a |
| hospital with a respiratory infection, in a small | | | | lot of black hair, black beard, and teeth. My brother |
| community hospital. One night the hospital was short | | | | was on the other side of the room from the elderly |
| nurses, so they moved patients that were farthest | | | | gentleman. I was stunned; to think she could believe this |
| from the nurse's station (my brother) to rooms | | | | man was my brother that she had seen just the day |
| normally used for seriously ill patients, to save the | | | | before yesterday. I felt bad that she was so upset, |
| nurses steps. | | | | and I was laughing at the same time. |
| My mother, who is seventy-nine and a little hard of | | | | Even after I took her into the room where she could |
| hearing called the hospital the next morning and wasn't | | | | see him for herself, she was still upset. We laughed |
| able to reach her son in his room. Calling the nurses | | | | about it after she recovered but she spent the next |
| station she asked why and was told he had been | | | | two days, not sleeping well, tired, and nervous. She is a |
| moved to the ICU room. I'm sure the nurse explained | | | | worrier, and thinks the worse in any situation. |
| why he was moved, but all Mother heard was | | | | What can you do? |
| intensive care unit. | | | | Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity |
| Calling me to take her we rushed to the hospital. I could | | | | there is - next to hate, which is deeply self-destructive. |
| tell on the way there that she was becoming unstrung. | | | | Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy; it also |
| When we reached my brothers floor Mother ran to | | | | created bio-chemical reaction, which harm the body |
| the room number the nurse had given her. Stopping in | | | | producing everything from indigestion to coronary |
| the doorway Mom threw her arms into the air and | | | | arrest, and a multitude of things in between. Excerpts |
| shouted, "Oh my god! He looks TERRIBLE!!" The | | | | taken from" Conversations with God" by Donald Neal |
| turning away from the door she stood slumped against | | | | Walsh His book also suggests that all illness first begins |
| the corridor wall. | | | | in our mind, and science confirms the fact that ones |
| I stepped into the doorway to have a look. On one | | | | mental attitude has a profound effect on our health. |