So I was thinking
this morning, how amazing God is. Even in my worst moments, the most painful
moments of my life, in places where I felt like as a human being my children
and I, had been violated and robbed of our most basic human right to exist and
to experience life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in that moment when I
would have let go, God held on to me and assured me that I would make it.
As an African
American mother, I cannot even explain to you how I felt when I realized what
happened to Robyn and the deception and injustice that followed. Maybe because
I was somehow in denial about the condition of this nation. I was working and
attending school to complete my Master’s Degree. My kids were doing well, in
school, no problems. But then we met up with a doctor who had very little
regard for the life of a 13-year-old African American girl, and our lives
turned upside down.
When I consider
what I have gone through, not only did God work a miracle with Robyn, He kept
me sane through an ordeal that was so overwhelming to my spirit that I often
asked Him, “How are You going to work all of this evil for good?” My advocacy
work is the good. I realize in the African American community we are more
likely to be affected by adverse events. We are most likely to have limbs
removed when they could have been saved. We are most likely to not be referred
on for more testing etc. We are being harmed and the statistical data supports
this. So my question to my facebook community is where are all the patients and
families like mine? Their voices need to be heard too and they need to be
standing with us. I created a facebook page (Minorities Harmed by Medical
Errors - MHME). I could make the page private because I know that some people
don’t want to be identified, but our voices need to be heard. Please like the
page and pass it on.
