Week 11
1207 words by nikkeiaf
I would like to start off by saying thank you to all of those that commented on my week 9 blog… all two of you. You girls are the best roommates a girl could ask for and I really appreciate your help. I do take full blame for not having had more comments because it took me a minute to get my week nine blog up and published, for that I am sorry. But again, thank you Jada Etienne and Paisley Robertson for your opinions and insight on my project.
These are my responses to the comments.
Paisley Robertson~
Thank you so much for understanding where I am coming from where the lack of time is a concern. I am sure I am not the only individual suffer with this problem so that makes it a little easier to keep on pushing forward. I believe that you are one of the individuals that could identify with my project because you too are a volunteer at Children’s Hospital. In fact, you administer your services in the same unit as me, PICU, but only on a different day. Therefore, you know what the job entitles. I am sure that you have grown to love a number of patients that have come and gone within our unit, and I am also sure that you have formed relationships with the nurses, doctors, and other staff members of Children’s Hospital. Like myself, you too have future ambitions of one day becoming a doctor, pediatrician. I do believe that working as a volunteer is a great starting place to help us on our path to getting there. I really wish that you and I could have joined forces on this project. One can make a difference but two could make an even better difference. You made a comment on the fact that I have resorted to recruiting Xavier students, must of them are premed students anyway, to be volunteers as well. I would really appreciate it if you tried to do the same. You have the experience and you also what is expected of the job that we do, so I do not believe that you would have a hard time helping me recruit the right people for this job. Another thing is that you are a peoples’ person, and I know that personally from living with you for the past three semesters. Thanks again for your comments. I love you too. God Bless!
Jada Etienne~
Thank you so much for your comments Jada! I really appreciate that you took the time out your busy schedule, and I know that you are a busy young lady, to relay your opinion on the progress of my class project. I am glad that understand where I am coming from when I made the decision to cut back on my volunteer hours. That was not an easy for me to decrease my hours because, in a way, I feel like I am letting down those patients, doctors, nurses, and worse of all, my self. Although, I do understand that I made the right decision for me and my situation. My project is going pretty well, I only wish that I had the time and the resources to do more. Maybe interact with the patients parents or family members. I could have started a class or group that allowed for the parents to talk about their present situation or give them a place to just get away. It has to be hard for them to see their child go through so much pain and suffering. I think that that is going to be my next project. You are right, I am trying to make a difference, and I only hope that everyone that I interact with sees that I am trying to do just that. I am also going to take your advice into consideration, and try to create a lasting bond with at least one of the patients, but it is easier said than done. Thanks so much. God Bless. Oh, and I love you too.
TOBIT’S STORY…
The story of Tobit is a unique one. Tobit is a loving husband to his wife Anna, and loving father to his son Tabias. They all have a great family relationship amongst themselves. The only thing that did not fit well in their perfects lives was the fact that Tobit choose, agaist the orders of the king of Assyria, to bury the bodies of the dead. On one particular night of digging a burial, Tobit falls of sleep and when he wakens, he is surprised to fight that the night birds have defecated in his eyes. In addition to that, he lost his eyesight as a result. From that moment on, Tobit no longer wishes to live and wants to kill himself.
Before he kills himself, he sends his son off to collect money from a man from Media who owned him as much. On the way there, he is almost eaten from a fish, but he ends up killing and eating it but not before the heart, liver and gall bladder of the fish was saved for medicinal remedies. In Madia, he and Ararias stay with the family of Sarah, a young girl who also wishes to die because she remains a virgin after seven marriages that end in the deaths of her husbands by a demon, and they both fall in love. They marry, disregarding the past husband’s deaths. Sarah’s father even digs a grave for Tobias because he does not believe the he will make it through the night. The demon is driven away and imprisoned by the smoke of the burning liver and heart. When they return home, the rub the fish’s gall bladder in Tobit’s eyes and he gets his vision back. Tobit is happy again.
MAIN LESSON…
The found the story of Tobit to be a strange one. It was quit difficult to find the main lesson out of this story, and I am not even sure if there is one. I think that the lesson maybe that everything has a purpose and happens for a reason. One’s pain may lead to another person’s happiness. If it wasn’t for Tobit losing his eyesight, Tobias would never have met his lovely wife Sarah.
HEROIC MACCABEES…
The Maccabees where consider to be heroic because they helped their people fight back against the Greeks to gain their religious freedom to practice their religious beliefs and retake Jerusalem. Maccabee means “hammer” in Aramaic. That is the nickname given to Judah after he leads the Maccabean Revolt and succeeds in retaking Jerusalem. Once that is accomplished, they fixed up their Temple and created a celebration called Hanukkah meaning “Dedication” to take place every year then on. Judah was willing to fight and die for his people and an important cause. That in itself is enough to call him heroic. Other Maccabees acquired the nation reestablished by the first Maccabee.