You know, just when I think things are running pretty smoothly something comes along and upsets the cart. That's exactly what happen at the end of October.
I went on a vacation of sorts to visit with my daughter, son in law, and my two grand girls in Alabama. Everything seemed to be going good even though I had had minor surgery just days before. Two days after reaching my daughter's home my incision wasn't healing as well as we had hoped for and to make things worse I had developed a very sore throat.
For several days we treated my incision and my sore throat as best we could. Finally on my fourth day in Alabama I decided that I had to just give up and return home. Think that would be great for me, right? Not really because during the days that I had fought off the sore throat all along I had developed a serious case of Strep throat. By the time I got in to see my doctor my dehydration was so bad that my blood pressure had drop too low and was barely audible.
Needless to say I ended up in the hospital for four days trying to get everything back to working order. My diabetes got all out of whack and nothing has been the same since. I am home now thank goodness, dragging myself through everyday.
Sometimes things are just the unexpected sidelines that we don't see coming, but in the end through all of the hell that I feel I have been through, here I am. Hanging in and doing the best that I can to get back up and keep moving forward.
Unexpected sidelines sometimes ends up being the very thing we need to slow us down and help us balance out our lives more evenly. Ah, as for me. Well, I'm trying to slow the pace and learn from the experience just how to enjoy every moment that comes my way. After all we never know when something really awful might just put us in the hospital or worse. I for one am looking for the good times that I have to spend with family and friends.
Hope you all have a good long chances to enjoy the experiences as well. Be well always..
C.J.
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