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• Saturday, August 5, 2006 - Gearing up for Fall and dealing with unexpected crisises
Well, this week has been a great "learning challenge" as my friends and family would say.
First: a sudden allergic reaction to an unknown substance, which landed me in the emergency room, after 2 days of home treatment just didn't do a thing. I tried everything: eliminating all possible suspects, making sure nothing perfumed was touching me, etc. In the end, the worsening hives and shortness of breath (two symptoms I'd NEVER had) were enough to get me to seek help. I simply felt that I wasn't going to be able to breathe otherwise.
Next day, groggy and itchy, I went ahead and had a root canal. Got through that fine, considering. Then, opened the mail and found the bank system had made a HUGE error, which luckily, they corrected quickly, realizing it was their error. But I discovered the error after bank hours and I confess I didn't sleep well that night. The next day? A large tree from a neighbor's yard falls across our yard, narrowly misses our house and then a friend calls, in need of help after breaking her leg and...all of a sudden, the week's schedule goes awry.
Sleep deprived, itchy but grateful to be here. If anyone reads this, I'd love advice on getting through these kinds of things. Prayer, of course, is a bedrock for me as well as taking things one step at a time and trying not to fret over the future. But I think I need to strengthen my coping skills.
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