Feeling Better and I'm Back!

bysrollins

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11 years ago

I went two weeks without doing much of anything on here. I came back working pretty much every day on my blogs and then quit cold turkey. I got diagnosed with carpal tunnel and truthfully after a whole day of working on a computer at work I was just too tired and in too much pain to want to spend any more time on another computer. I really wished I has done more but it was only two weeks and I am back. No point in thinking about what I could have done in that time.

After a lot of relaxing them and the constant wearing of my braces - I am feeling much better. The pain is scare and I am hoping soon gone! I am a big baby I will admit it - I hate pain but I really had an grateful experience during all of this that made me appreciate my downfalls.

I visit my grandmother in a local nursing home regularly. I wish she wasn't there and so does she but we both know that's the best place for her health wise. She has many friend there that I have gotten to know well over the last two years. One man in particular, Mr. Evans, has really lived the extraordinary life. He spent his life doing missionary work instead of focusing on building a future and a family and because of that he is mostly alone.

He is truly an amazing man with many stories to tell. I had came to visit one day wearing my brace and everyone was fawning over me. "Oh, what happened?" "Why are you wearing that?" "You poor thing" they went on and on. Mr. Evans came to sit down at the table we were at and began to tell me he just got back from a support meeting. In the last week while I had been dealing with minor pain that felt like major Mr. Evans was diagnosed with Parkinson disease. He didn't let it stop him and even said he was grateful to have what he had because there were people way worst off than him.

My pain vanished for a split second because my own gratefulness kicked in. I am truly so lucky to only have the pain I do and not something more serious.

Sometimes we lose ourselves in a world that can easily become self-centered and monotonous. Daily life kicks in and we forget to look at the bigger picture. My long term goal are quickly outweighed by the quick release of the now. I hope I don't forget this gratefulness and am able to keep a mind about where I want to be. Be thankful for it and especially grateful for where I am now.