1 PILL...2 PILLS...RED PILL...BLUE PILLS

 

I've always been a list maker.  It keeps my life in order so I don't  go off on a tangent, losing track of time, and getting nothing done.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. 

My question now is... how in the @#$%& do people who take a dozen medications ever get it straight and ever get anything else done?

I'm only taking a few and I need a logistics expert to keep track of which to take with food, which to take with a full bottle of water, which foods to avoid within two hours either side one medication and which don't play well with others if you take them too close together.

I am so happy all this is only temporary and it certainly gives me incentive to stay healthy.  What I've also learned from this experience is...

AT THE END OF THE DAY...getting old is not for wimps.

 

IT'S COMPLICATED

 

You know when something happens to you and you ignore it,

then it happens again and you ignore it again and yet again?

Then by the time you realize you need to give it a heads up you are up against a deadline, or right in the middle of a big project you really want to finish, or you want to get through the holidays then  you will relax and breathe and pay attention. 

In the meantime, the thing you have been ignoring has been building up and growing until, right in the middle of your project, or a day before your deadline, or the morning of the most excellent Christmas in years...what if you woke up "THAT" morning and realized you should have paid attention sooner, you should have seen the signs, you should have listened to your inner voice, you should have sensed, somehow, as the days, weeks, months slipped by that each incident was a warning that something serious was wrong. 

So now here you sit, all alone at midnight, hooked up to IV's full of stuff you hope will make it go away and you wonder again, after two days of wondering, what it is and what caused it.  Was it laziness and neglect or just plain stupidity for seeing it sooner...but...

... AT THE END OF THE DAY...you know it doesn't matter...you've finally turned the corner toward recovery and you are grateful...and from now on you'll pay attention.

PS...Thank you to all my family for taking lots of pictures for me of Adyson' s first Christmas.