Here is a little of my world lately.
- I went to Delta last night. (Delta is my recovery group) At Delta last night, the lesson was on grieving. We watched Nooma video titled Matthew, with Rob Bell. In the video Rob talked about an a Jewish tradition of sitting shiva. He said how you would visit with the person who lost someone and just sit. If they wanted to talk, then you would talk. If they did not want to talk, you would just sit with them.
- The above video reminded me in my grief of losing my job, and my reputation, that God is sitting with me. In my grief of not having children God is sitting with me. In all my other losses God is sitting with me, talking to me and just being with me.
- Matt's health has been acting up lately. He has had several afib events in the last several weeks. He is doing ok, but refusing to go to the er or call the doctor.
- Working at Walmart has been a challenge and fun. It is something different than I expected to be doing at this time in my life. I am enjoying learning new things like how to use the hand held terminal to put items away in the back. I am enjoying helping customers. I am enjoying the challenge that a new job brings. I am making new friends among my co-workers.
- I do wish I would get more Sunday mornings off. I don't mind working Sundays I just wish I could go to church then work. I really miss the worship time. But I have had the majority of Tuesday's off so I have been able to go to Delta. It is a trade off.
- Have blessed Fourth of July and be safe. Heading into work soon.
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Don't remember if I told you this. I had A-Fib. Was having it every couple of weeks, and it lasted 8 - 10 hours each time. After I had the stroke I started taking a pill called Amiodarone, and I haven't had it since then. I didn't believe I was having a stroke. Hubby told me I wasn't talking right, and the corner of my mouth was drooping. He and our daughter forced me to go to the hospital. Another friend on Xanga, fauquet (Michel, he's French) says he has taken this drug for several years now, and it helped him too.
@ata_grandma - I will keep it in mind and write it down. Matt is just refusing to call doctor or go to the ER so we can not determine if it is his afib or blood pressure. He is on new medicine for the blood pressure. He is NOT using his C-Pap machine either which is a BIG trigger for him in having an A-Fib event.
We are extremely tight on money since I lost my job and I have been working at Walmart part-time. He is saying that is why he won't go. There is always an excuse. The doctors can not help him if he refuses to help himself. My fear is that it will take a stroke or heart attack for him to finally do what needs to be done.
I understand his reluctance to go. They do have programs to help out folks though. We found out when my hubby had to be admitted to the hospital for an infection in his leg. It's so frustrating when they don't listen though.
@SealedbyGrace - Oh wow... sitting shiva...... God is faithful to explain in his timing. I understand about the money, but God will provide, he has so many times before. But really money is so tight, we are shuffling bills around about which one to pay and which one to let be late.