Sorry I have not been able to write for awhile, I have had some very serious medical issues that had me hospitalized twice. However, God is good and I am still alive and kicking. I had to take some time off. I finally finished my first semester at school. Being ill has taken its toll on me stress wise.
I seriously contemplated whether I was going to keep writing, but as a friend of mine told me, writing is what keeps me going. I decided not to take any summer classes and just concentrate on getting well.
AP News is reporting Natalie Cole, who recently revealed she had hepatitis C, is in hospital suffering from side-effects of medication and a heavy promotional schedule, her representative said today.
The Grammy-winning daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole has been in a New York City hospital since September 12 and is expected to remain there for a few days.
This apology might come a bit too late for Dr. Alfred L. Bookhardt. The 79 year old doctor began his career as a physician in the 1960s, when blacks were barred from practicing at Orlando hospitals or joining the American Medical Association.
The association Thursday apologized on its Web site for "its past history of racial inequality toward African-American physicians, and shares its current efforts to increase the ranks of minority physicians and their participation in the AMA."
James R. Smith opened the first maternity hospital for black women in the early 1950s so their babies could be born with dignity and in sanitary conditions, Thompson said.
Blacks who underwent surgery in Orlando hospitals were sent to private homes to recover until 1959, when the Dr. P. Phillips Hospital for Coloreds was opened. Bookhardt joined the hospital in the mid-1960s.
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