Tuesday July 7 2015 THERE IS ALWAYS TOMORROW…

Words of wisdom sent to me by my cousin in an email:  “…slow down and accomplish what you can each day.  What gets done, gets done.  There is always tomorrow to finish any task”.

I’ll have to think about that for a while.  Good advice however, TO SLOW DOWN!  Living in the moment has helped me to slow down quite a bit but when I hit the pavement when I arrived home all that learning seemed to just fly out the window.  I am so yearning to have all  my professional work finished so I can do exactly that…SLOW DOWN.  But until I finish it I am in the fast mode.  With Dave getting so sick my plans have changed somewhat as I take care of things on the home front plus all the little loose ends of “this and that” which need to be sorted and taken care of.  There are a lot of plans that are in the making and I must work to that end because other people are involved and I have made commitments.

Life is truly an adventure.  Whether traveling on the road or going in circles in your own home town.  Everything takes so much time.  Always more than I anticipate.  So, you see, I still have lessons to learn.

Dave is very sick.  He has a sepsis in his blood and his body is infected.  It causes severe pain in joints and bones and in his legs.  He has hot, red discoloration of the lower extremities which is a cellulitis (inflammation of the cells of the surface and underlying areas of the skin.  This is a side effect of diabetes when the blood sugars are not under control.  The sepsis affects several different parts of the body.  The body starts using its own muscle to fight the infection which cause high lactic acid build up in his system.  He often wretches without results which is very painful.  It is difficult for Dave to walk or even to lie down because of the pain.  He needs all the prayers he can get.  I’ll probably be in Dutch when he reads this.  I’m just reporting the facts!  And there are a lot of facts I’m NOT reporting.  To a writer this is like getting up close and personal headline news.  I do not mean to sensationalize this but this blog is becoming my journal also and I want to document what is going on.

My day consisted of running several errands that could not be put off due to needing to put into motions certain things that had to happen so results would be done by a certain date.  Accomplished everything that was on My Monday’s list.  Still one or two more other things that have cropped up since then.  We are transferring to Medicare on August 1, 2015 and lots of situations must be put into motion, called about, signed off, etc…  With me being gone some things had to wait until I returned to be accomplished and now we are down to the wire.

I went by to see Dave at the hospital but he was feeling too sick to really visit so I only stayed about 1 hour.  Home now and hopefully early to bed.  I had a rough night last night.  I slept like a baby in every bed I stayed in while on my trip but last night my sleep evaded me.  And now I am sleepy and it is only 8:18 p.m.  I’m still not totally unpacked and put away.  Just thought I’d throw that in.

Dave has two large tables set up in the formal dining room strewn with papers that he is organizing.  He thought He would be finished by tonight.  Now they sit abandoned and silent and look rather forlorn.  It is a different house without his presence.  I know he is coming home.  He may have a long road to travel to get where he wants to get but I know he can do it.  We live one day at a time.  As I’ve said before, each day is full of decisions and choices.  The choice we make today will affect our tomorrow, out next week and ultimately our whole life.  Think about your choices today.

I think this is an excellent place to write the wisdom I heard today.  I met a super young man today who helped me with the IPhone at AT&T store in Madison.  He was young, intelligent, extremely educated in the workings of the IPhone and helped me with a problem I had with mine.  As we spoke to each other I could see his joy and excitement for life.  I asked him what his wisdom would be to the world.  The following are his exact words (I’m getting the knack of recording verbatim and type it as such.  His wisdom fits in with the above paragraph.  Listen closely to Linelle’s words.  Thanks Linelle for sharing your wisdom with me.

Lilnellle’s wisdom:  “So my piece of wisdom to my younger self would be to not worry about the small things, and just keep going.  That’s the biggest focus, just keep going.  Things change over time, views change, perspectives change.  In the grand scheme of things if you keep going you’ll get to somewhere brighter.”

And that is my hope for today, that Dave and I will keep on going and “get to somewhere brighter”!

JUST KEEP GOING

By Kathleen Martens

July 7 2015

Sometimes it seems we worry

About all the small little things,

Frustration seems to rear its head

Unhappiness it brings.

I tell myself not to fret

For there is too much of life to live,

Fretting creates worry debt

And has nothing at all to give.

Instead of being in a bog

Just keep on and keep on going,

And before you know it

Your heart will be glowing.

Over time things will change,

And views also will

Give yourself a full range

In a place to be silent and still

There truly is a grand scheme,

Allow your load to be lighter.

If you just keep on going

You will get somewhere brighter.

Thank you Linelle for the inspiration to write this poem.

INSPIRATION:  BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO ANOTHER PERSON!

One last thing to remember. “If you want to accomplish something, start today.  We are not promised tomorrow!  When tomorrow no longer comes for us we may not finish what we started but we’ll have had fun accomplishing what we did get done.” (Kathleen’s wisdom)