April 3: On a brighter note....
Well, you have been warned in the past that when not feeling well I tend to be rather depressed. Now you know why there is so much time between posts.
But there is an up to the current schedule. In the next couple weeks I will have paid down my HELOC balance to the level the budget said wouldn't be possible until the end of the year. So three months of extra hours will have accomplished what twelve months was supposed to. If things continue (although this is counting chickens....) then I may have paid off that money by the end of June, instead of the end of 2013. So yeah, that's worth some pain.
The other bonus to pain is that I'm much better at writing about my experiences. I just did another service at Fellowship, titled 'After the Storm...' about the difficulty in recuperating from a personal trauma. It wasn't an easy thing to write, but the reaction was pretty overwhelming. Many people thanked me either for describing what they couldn't or helping them understand someone else. It reminded me that being able to express myself can help others.
And on another bright note: I've gone back to walking, although not as regularly if the fatigue/pain is bad. But tonight I walked a little over a mile in about 30 minutes, first time that long since August when I broke my foot. Yeah!
Laurie
But there is an up to the current schedule. In the next couple weeks I will have paid down my HELOC balance to the level the budget said wouldn't be possible until the end of the year. So three months of extra hours will have accomplished what twelve months was supposed to. If things continue (although this is counting chickens....) then I may have paid off that money by the end of June, instead of the end of 2013. So yeah, that's worth some pain.
The other bonus to pain is that I'm much better at writing about my experiences. I just did another service at Fellowship, titled 'After the Storm...' about the difficulty in recuperating from a personal trauma. It wasn't an easy thing to write, but the reaction was pretty overwhelming. Many people thanked me either for describing what they couldn't or helping them understand someone else. It reminded me that being able to express myself can help others.
And on another bright note: I've gone back to walking, although not as regularly if the fatigue/pain is bad. But tonight I walked a little over a mile in about 30 minutes, first time that long since August when I broke my foot. Yeah!
Laurie
posted by Laurie @ 8:06 PM
1 Comments:
At 11:54 PM,
Anonymous said…
Laurie,
I hope you are keeping all these notes from soeaki.g in church about your expeirence... I still and will always say I hope one day you will write several books helping
(1) those having the conditions better sunderstand what they are going through AND that they are not alone.
(2) those w/love ones and friends w/large problems- understand why they are getting pushed away
Deneen
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