by Jamie Holloway | Aug 10, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I am home. I am happy to be home. Melissa one of the wonderful nurses at the hospital told me she didn’t want me to leave, but I did want to leave. I missed my bed, my space, my people, not that the people at the hospital weren’t wonderful. I had some amazing nurses,...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 8, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I am writing this blog post hooked up to many different machines in order to be healthy. I have the humidifier hooked to my throat, I have to IV’s one in each arm and I have the oxygenator hooked up. Different noises, different reasons for each device to be hooked up...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 7, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Have you ever received messages that just make you think? I have, messages for me can be in the lyrics to a song, a line in a movie, a quote, a book I am reading, something a person is saying to me, or even a thought that pops into my head. Tonight, while sitting in...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 5, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Happy Sunday! If you suspect that I am still in the hospital, you would be correct. I am still here. One of the student doctors came in and she told me that I will be going home for sure tomorrow. I had to make a couple of phone calls, one of course to Myron, my...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 4, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I woke up this morning expecting to be heading home to Vancouver, but once again my plains were derailed by someone else. I have to stay two more days in the hospital simply because Dr. Hillel wants me to be absolutely sure that I can take care of my t-stent tube. I...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 4, 2012 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
This is my last night in the hospital. I am up in the middle of the night because I had to suction my t-tent and also take some pains meds. My throat is sore. I feel as though I swallowed a porcupine whole. Vickie is asleep on a cot next to me. I doubt she is getting...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 3, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Greetings from the University Of Washington Medical center here in Seattle Washington. Happy to say that I made it through my surgery and I now have my T-stent in and I feel like a million bucks. I can breathe fully. I can smell. When Dr. Hillel and his team went in...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 1, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
\\ Photography by Myron Freiburger I am all packed for my hospital stay which starts today. Kris, my fabulous sister in law and I will be leaving Vancouver at 7 in the morning to reach our destination in Seattle which computes to a three hour trip. The doctor said I...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 18, 2012 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
Prompted by a blog post by Jeff Goin’s in promotion for his new book that will be coming out. It made me think. How has my life been wrecked and turned out good? Three years ago I woke with no ability to breathe properly and severe joint pain. I sounded like a...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 15, 2012 | Auto-immune, Exhilarating People, The Magnificent Journey
The last couple of days have been a roller coaster ride of emotions that stem from being rejected. I wrote about having to go to the University Of Seattle in order to visit my ENT to see what the next steps will be concerning my Subglottic Stenosis. I believed that I...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 6, 2012 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
The Power Of Self-Healing Dr. Fabrizio Mancini In February, my care provider saw Dr. Phil’s TV talk show and this author was on hocking his book. I purchase the book after Myron suggested that I might be interested in reading it. I have always been interested in...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 30, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I do not normally write about my fears and such on my blog because it gets boring reading about someone who only talks and whines about their illness. I do it once in a while when I need to truly get it off my chest. This is one of those times. The last two weeks I...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 25, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I woke up this morning in a blissful mood. I spent my weekend in contemplative thought, because in my spirit I felt restless and unsure about where my life is going. I made some choices that I will be implementing soon. The reason for my restlessness is due to the...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 23, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I am looking forward to August 4th, my friend Debra Lawson-Bean has graciously accepted and registered me to go to day conference at OHSU. This conference is for individuals and their care providers who suffer from an auto-immune disease. Vasculitis will be one of the...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 14, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I wrote in my story that I am awaiting my appointment on July 10th, 2012 at the University of Washington for a consultation appointment with Dr. Hillel (an ENT) and Dr. Gardner (my Rhematoligist) to see about what can be done about my throat issues. I just could not...
by Jamie Holloway | Jun 14, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I was asked my Jim Bornac and Chelsey Lawrence to participate in writing about patients living with Vasculitis. I did. Check out Chelsey’s blog Hope to read about her story. You can find Jim Bornac sharing articles and all types of information on his Face book....
by Jamie Holloway | May 26, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Being sick with a trach is a challenge. Since I am always coughing something up, taking the cannula out to clean out my debris then how do you know when you are sick? Let me tell you. Today, Friday I woke up coughing and having to use my suction machine more than once...
by Jamie Holloway | May 16, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Citizenship/Community always meant to be helping people succeed in their lives and to aide them in their own healing journey. Being someone who is ill, I have a chronic illness that makes my ability to help others more challenging than the average person, but I am...
by Jamie Holloway | May 1, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
I love these videos, they share so much. Enjoy! Support Vasculitis research. The month of May is Vasculitis Awareness month. Vasculitis is the classification of 16 different diseases and I have one of them Granulomatos with Polygranitis (Wegener). If you have read my...
by Jamie Holloway | May 1, 2012 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey
Not Gonna Give In To It I am frustrated. My throat is constricting again from the damn disease that I have called GPA (Wegener’s). That means that soon I will be going into surgery yet again to get dilated so that I can breathe for a few months before I need it again....
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