Heavy news this morning
I’ve been going through a lot with my kids and their sickness and it’s been really hard. I have to put it in perspective. The illness that my kiddos have are temporary they go away and life goes on.
That’s not the case for one of my oldest best friends this morning. His son has been in the hospital for the past few days with a mysterious illness for which he’s needed blood transfusions. Today they finally got a diagnosis. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Cancer. My heart is so heavy and I feel so badly for my friend and his son. It’s a heavy diagnosis.
It’s -1 degrees outside and it snowed a little last night. It’s COLD. I have physical therapy in the pool today and I’m dreading the whole getting out of the pool and going out in the icy air. With my anemia and thyroid issues, one of the side effects is cold intolerance. Coldness feels like fire on my skin, it really hurts. It’s not pleasant. I can’t wait to get all my issues fixed. I’m really looking so forward to it. Health is one of the most important things. The older I get the more I realize that it is almost everything other than happiness.
I have a few people in my life who take health as a last priority. They don’t adhere to their diet, they aren’t proactive in issues they know they have but refuse to do anything about. It’s so frustrating to me and I struggle with understanding it, especially when there are children involved that are affected by it daily. My kids are the only excuse I need to better myself, not just sit passively by and continue unhealthy habits. Habits are so easy to make, you just have to be consistent about them. There are so many ways of reminding yourself, via phone reminders, alarms, and asking others for accountability. I could go on a tangent with this so I’m going to stop there for now.
It’s going to be another busy day today. I have physical therapy this morning and after that Tristyn has an awards ceremony at his school. He’ll be getting the golden paw pat award for the 4 b’s. Be kind, be safe, be respectful and be responsible. Only 5 kids get this out of the whole school and Tristyn was nominated by one of the staff members, so it’s a big deal. I couldn’t be more proud of that boy. After that, we’re going to go shopping for Daddy’s birthday which is tomorrow.