If you want to know how Jesus felt, start a YouTube channel

 As I go from week to week, I receive communication from all over the world on my YouTube channel. The majority of it is nice. Most people say how a video helped them. Gratitude is expressed. Some of the comments make me cry. Unfortunately, not everyone receives the best medical care, and death occurs.

And then there are those people who like to express dissatisfaction with me for no particular reason. People mud sling words at me. I used to take it personally, but now I know better. I remind myself of scripture. People hated Jesus for no reason. If they hated Him without a cause, people can also hate me for no reason at all.

Then there are a scant minority who tell me I am wrong on a topic. Medicine is broad, and there are many different approaches to doing procedures and treating various medical afflictions. I have no problems with people having different opinions. But usually, the point of contention is on something which is well established.

For example, a woman argued with me that placing a tracheostomy tube in the airway will not affect a person’s ability to speak. If you wish, I can take off my ventilator and attempt to speak. This does not work well as almost all the air will rush out my tracheostomy tube and will not pass through my vocal cords. The words which come out of my mouth are very quiet and hard to hear and understand. To communicate with an audible voice, I have to place my finger over the end of my tracheostomy tube to force air up my airway and through my vocal cords to speak. It takes a lot of practice and the ability to use different muscles to speak with a tracheostomy tube. I tried explaining this to the woman, but she told me it was “misinformation”.

I was dumb-founded by this, but then I remembered Jesus. Jesus tells people the truth, but people refuse to listen. This made me sad. I am sad for those who do not follow Jesus’ teachings, but I am also sad for this woman. Her child is about to get a tracheostomy tube. She is going to be in for a rude awakening when her child struggles to speak after getting a tracheostomy tube.

I hope and pray the woman has the resources to help her child adjust to life with a tracheostomy tube. And just like Jesus, I continue with my head down, trying to help people, but when the mud slinging starts, I have a deeper understanding of what Jesus went through.