I finished off the weekend with our Relay For Life of Hale County and felt good. Felt good about the people involved and we feel it was successful. It may not have been the most money raised in our local Relay, to date, that is yet to be seen, but many teams raised more than they expected, or dreamed.
I got home Saturday, got the car unloaded, put things away, wrote a blog, ate a coke float and decided I was tired and went to bed about 10:30 p.m. About 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, I woke up with that terrible hurting in the stomach that you know is never good. At 3:30 a.m. it hit hard & "lucky" for me I had nothing in my stomach. So, I got to dry heave a couple of days. Yup, the flu. This is my second case and much more severe. I'm still running a slight fever today, day three. The worst part was how very weak I got this go around. I just hope no one else gets it. I saw a lot of people but had no idea I was going to get sick.
As I lay there thinking about things in my fitful rest, God showed me a comparison that I needed to remember. Coming off of a successful Relay all I could think about is how my mother, a pancreatic cancer patient, could go nowhere in her last months without her throw up bag. She had them everywhere because she never knew when she would need one. The closer she came to Glory, the more she used the bags. Saying that I do not like cancer is an understatement. I thought about how tired, how sick, how drained she must have felt. She did not know she had cancer until eight days before she died. She just knew she felt horrible and kept what hope she could.
I thought about friends who have taken chemo, and how exhausted they must feel, so weak they can't move.
I knew, as sick as I was, fighting cancer is way worse. We walk at Relay to remember the journey, the battle that our loved ones make. We honor them in their fight. They truly are heroes!
I suppose you could say that the "good" thing would be the weight loss. I have lost right at 13 pounds during this process. Actually, I did not need to lose weight, okay, maybe a little, but I will be trying really hard to eat to gain strength. I know that cancer patients would pick any other way to lose weight or to not gain fluid weight. The disease and treatments are brutal.
A week of no blogs, no Facebook, only what I felt must be done on social media and email. No pictures and I missed some great events this week!!! Sad.
I'm pretty certain I will take that flu shot next season. Just such pros and cons about it. I forget that I'm old, and things like the flu are just harder on us oldies, but goldies!
Might I suggest that you make a monetary gift to the American Cancer Society for research? We must be open to God showing us a cure.
My God comparison was his still small voice saying make a difference through this experience; you have the flu for a purpose, use it for my glory.
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
I ventured outside on Monday afternoon and barely made it to a chair. As I collapsed into the chair, God's sunshine shone on me and warmed me and then our friend stopped by to say, Hello!

Fresh Find: Cute CUTE trains!!!
