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Edit’s story

Edit’s story When learning in medical school, I had my second year’s summer internship/practice at maternity ward. Since I am the oldest out of 4 children in my family, nursing and raising the little ones became quite a routine in my childhood so didn’t often feel myself a child. I guess this is why I have developed my perfectionist side, my caring side and my mind-set up all over the place side. I didn’t like to put up with any other kids around me, my 3 siblings were more than enough. The other children surely felt that because they had never come to me to play. So by default I was not child friendly and like this had to go to the maternity ward for summer practice surrounded by the many of crying little „frogs”. When I was there fourth time, I went into a room where at least 10 of the approximately 18-22 newborn babies were cying. I cannot tell how I exactly felt but I had to go in, as if I had been pulled in there.   There was no nurse in the room, just
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Tamas' story

Tamas' story I got sick sometime in my early 20’s. I got sick with a disease that hadn’t have a cure, a medicine at the time. It wasn’t life-threatening in the short run but there was a chance if having it for decades. It caused a minor shock at first, which is understandable since nobody wants to be sick, especially not with a disease that doesn’t have a cure for. At the beginning I had a lot of thoughts crossing my mind, from the most negative to the most positive, from denial to acceptance. I didn’t want to believe to start my life like this and my constant thought was: this cannot happen to me. This phase took some time but luckily God didn’t let go of my hand and let me meet the best doctors and nurses. During the overdue medical check-up the doctor opened a door, which was showing me a hopeful oppportunity. He talked to me about an experimental drug that might be worth trying and asked whether I wanted to give it a try. My answer was: sure, no question, of c
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Lynn's story

Lynn’s story Many people say they have no regrets in their lives. I have one which still haunts me and fills me with painful sorrow. Many years ago when I was young I drove overland from the UK to NZ with my husband.  We were approaching some border crossing - I dont recall where, but we were in a rocky desert. There was a puppy all alone, miles from anywhere, without water or food. We stopped and brought it into the van -- I gave it some food. And then we argued. My husband said we cannot take it across the border. I wanted to smuggle the pup across. To my everlasting shame I gave into pressure and put the puppy back into the desert. This act has had two major effects on my life. Firstly I NEVER give in to pressure when I know it would be wrong. Secondly: I spend much of my time and money helping rescue dogs around the world. While there can never be forgiveness for what I did, I can try to ease the suffering of other dogs. I just hope there really
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SUN

I believe we all are connected on some level and I know that life is a neverending learning process, even though it would be nice to skip some lessons but as Albert Camus says „there is no sun without shadow and it is essential to know the night’. It is essential because we learn and grow through pain, as this quote says: „sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain, because most of life’s greatest lessons are learned through pain” As I said earlier it would have been easier to avoid some pain or sadness but without those experiences I wouldn’t be the person I am today so I thank all those who were the shadow in my life, teaching some very important lesson and helping me to become stronger. But more importantly I am grateful for those who brought the sun into my life and I cannot thank them enough. They brought sunshine in different ways but every way is special and greatly appreciated so this blog is for you. THANK YOU for be
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Jeremy for President

Jeremy for President Yesterday I talked to to my best friend, who works in healthcare. We all know that they are under enormous pressure these days and to be honest I am wondering how they can keep their sanity. They always have been heroes in my eyes but these days more than ever. It is not enough that she is working very hard in the hospital but she is also a mother (and a great one) of a wonderful daughter, now being at home all day. By the time she wanted to explain her daughter this whole situation, why she cannot go to kindergarden and meet her friends, why they cannot meet grandma and grandpa, why she cannot go and play on the playground, she already had known everythig, thanks to youtube. Children are amazing, they are so adaptive, understanding and cooperative that we should learn from them. In many respects she is very lucky, having this smart and lovely daughter and although sometimes a bit challenging but great husband Jeremy, who is btw an
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Happy stories

Happy stories  For many of us what is happening in the world right now is still beyond our depth, we all are in a situation we never thought or feared of (at least I never thought and feared of something like this can happen) We might have seen something similar in the cinema but that time we thought ok, the filmmaker had been either weird or way too imaginative but when leaving the cinema we could happily acknowledge that everything was fine.  This time we cannot switch off the movie, it is happening and happening very fast and uncontrollable. The news are sometimes confusing and contradictory but one thing is for sure social distancing can save many lives and we have to do it for our own and each other’s sake. In my opinion it is really good to be on our own, with our thoughts if this is our own choice but if someone would like to talk and share thoughts or just to have some relaxing moments, which in these tough days can be really relieving and encouraging bu
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Human kindness is still here

Human kindness is still here I think everyone, who has ever thought about the direction, in which the world has been going would agree that it was too fast, too materialistic and in many cases too selfish and/or superficial. I believe this situation shows that it is a no-go and teaches us better and nicer approach to ourselves and towards each other. I myself noticed selfishness, negligence and m y own experience that some people mistake kindness for weakness (I am telling you from here that you’re wrong) but some kindness and helpfulness, I’ve experienced in recent days just touched my heart. Big time. The present situation has already brought a great deal of human kindess, I could list several just from here, my country but I believe the message to everyone who lost faith is that human kindness is still here, even if it is many times thrown into the shade in this fast paced world. There are still, who think only of themselves and don’t care for others but
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