Sitting in the exam room after receiving radioactive dye for my PET scan to look for a tumor or even worse, most would be anxious about pending test results. When met with the unknown we tend to think the worst will happen. Much like an illness which may threaten your health, Donald Trump has many feeling the same type of anxiety.
Many won't admit to the negative thoughts circulating in their head when a doctor uses the words 'tumor' or 'cancer.' I know I had a million thoughts going through my mind in the first minutes of receiving the news. FIGHTING was not my first thought. No. All of my fears, those I kins of knew I had and those that came out of the blue, circulated in my head.
Then, after a few minutes there was an empty feeling of nothing. I guess this is the shock stage. My mind must have overloaded with the numerous scenarios filled with negativity like, what about my children and how long do I have. There was silence in my head, in the core of my being. Many have gone through these same emotions on the night Donald Trump won his second presidential election.
Those who had worked tirelessly to warn citizens of America that Trump is unfit to be president due to his greed, immorality, childishness, pettiness, and lack of intelligence, were disappointed with the election results knowing what was coming in the future.
The bad, life altering news that Trump won a second presidency had the worst imaginable scenarios for his term, which are even worse in reality. If voters were like me, it took three months for the empty hollow feeling of shock to subside. What was it replaced with?
After leaving the doctor's office with my new, not yet verified diagnosis of a tumor, I wanted information. I wanted to know everything about my possible condition. I turned to facts. I couldn't allow myself to just GUESS what may be occurring in my body. I had to have FACTS. After Trump's win, facts became the enemy of his administration. Truth is being hidden or out and out lied about. I can't imagine if my access to information about tumor were restricted how much anxious I would have become. Thank goodness it wasn't.
Having facts matter when there is something that is causing confusion, chaos, fear, or uncertainty in your life. Truth is a wonderful tool to alleviate fear. The Trump administration does not want to get rid of fear and anxiety in Americans. It's their best asset in getting voters to support them. The worse scenarios play out on Fox News nightly warning MAGA and Christians that their lives are in danger.
After taking more tests, I had to sit and wait for over 30 days for what I hope today is the last BIG test to finding a true diagnosis to my health problems. While I waited there were pills, numerous emergency room trips, more sickness, restrictions on my daily life, change after change of medications and depression from being so sickly. I lost a tremendous amount of muscle mass and look weak. The first 100 days of Trump's presidency was one emergency or crazy thing after the next. The American people became tired of seeing what he was doing and is still doing to our country. Like cancer or a tumor, the disease of the Trump adminisr
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