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Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is
a Medical facility in Baton Rouge I hope you are
unfamiliar with and in good health and have not had to
visit. However medical emergencies, normal life, and crisis
medicals may have caused you to frequent this facility and
I am a person who spends a certain amount of time in
hospitals not because I want to, but just because I am
“technically” a poster child for Crohns Disease.

A severe debilitating chronic medical condition that often
causes many to be severely disabled, and while rarely
causing death, often causes those who have it to wish they
had died and those who see people with it often pity them.
So when someone like me comes along who has had
Crohns Disease over 40 yrs in insanely good health and not
on massive medications, Doctors who have had to deal
with Crohns Disease suddenly get very interested in my
story.

While recently being treated at Our Lady of the Lake
Regional Medical Center for bad water and vomiting I
was asked to write a Medical paper on my health and
condition to encourage Doctors and Staff as well as
patients that Crohns Disease does have people who over
come and live relatively normal lives……….

PREVOST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL where I was
taken by ambulance is an exceptional facility for the area it
serves and the people and community who are served by the
staff and nurses there. I know, I was there in extremis
meaning circumstances above and beyond the call of duty
or normal job description and each person with compassion
and care rose out of the normal job description to help me
find things like my wife’s phone number, clothes, food, a
cab company willing to go “remote” for a pick up. Since I
DO SPEND a lot of time, (or have in the past) in hospitals
and see several varieties I can say I really was treated “like
Family” and helped as best as limited funds and facilities
had. I have never had better cooking in a hospital then here,
and that’s a fact. I saw the ultimate professional care and
compassion for a family who lost a loved one while I was
there and was highly impressed by the people involved as I
have training in that field. It is never the normal job duties
that make or break a medical professional but the above and
beyond efforts that stand out that make people like me sit
up and take notice and Thank God for them. In Louisiana
both these Hospitals I ask everyone to sit up and take notice
to Ask God to bless because I have been so by them.