It's been a while since I last wrote, I know. Lots has been happening.
One word sums it up: Life.
Yup, it's amazing what life can throw your way at times.
I had to leave my new job after only 2 1/2 months. It was too stressful for me. That combined with the illness of a family member (who's back to normal now, thank heaven!), building stress over a span of 5 months, and all the other daily stressors came together and made a perfect setting for an event that turned my life upside down for a while.
The setting: the hospital (at least I was in the right place!)--I was with my family visiting my Grandpa who had just had a major operation. Feeling kind of funny, I decided to sit down. Good thing! I no sooner sat in the chair when I felt the blood drain from my head. Before I had a chance to get my head between my knees, my hearing went, my vision went, and then I went. Yup, I blacked out.
But I couldn't do your normal collapse and go limp faint...Nope, I had to stretch out and go stiff so that it looked more like a seizure.
Well, they took me down to Emerg and after what seemed like 50 tests and 3 hours later, I was released with a clean bill of health. I'd had what they call an 'extreme faint'--nothing to worry about.
Problem was, it left me so drained and weak that I found it that much more difficult to work. Me, who is never sick or away from work, missed about 7 days of work in a 2 1/2 week period. On the advice of my doctor, I had to resign from my position and take some time off.
The time off turned out to be great--I was given the opportunity to go to the sunny South to recuperate on the beach in Florida. Now that's living!!! And it did the trick--for a while.
Since returning back to reality here at home, I have started a new job (back the beginning of November), been under extreme stress again, and been betrayed by a very close family member.
To put it mildly, since my last post in the middle of the summer, I have been through hell.
It hasn't been a fun journey, I'll tell ya! But through it all I still cling to the hope that in the end it will all work out for the better.
About Me
- Bondservant of Christ
- I'm a born again Christian who wants nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else but God's will to be accomplished in my heart and life. I have not arrived; I'm just excited to be on this amazing journey learning of God's goodness. "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Phil 3:13-14)
