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I am a statistic – as of yesterday, February 26th I am one of the 25 new cases in Summit County, which makes me one of 1,330 in Ohio.
If you know me or have worked with me you most likely know I work through chronic pain issues daily.
Last weekend I posted on social media I was feeling ill. Just days before the weekend I suspected I might have an upper respiratory infection and I chose to get a COVID TEST – well, that test was negative on Valentine’s Day. The worst of my symptoms began late on Thursday afternoon of that week and by Friday, the 18th I was down for the count. My migraine was intense and not reacting to my normal medication – I felt so weak I could barely hold up my head. All I wanted to do was lay in my bed… This continued through Monday of this past week.
Unrelated to these symptoms on Monday I was taken off of one of my medications that were treating my Lichen Planus and causing nausea and within 24 hours my nausea dissipated. However, it was another two days for my migraines to settle down.
Again if you follow me on social media and our podcasting network at newclevelandradio.net you may have learned I was scheduled to have a heart and lung cath tomorrow, February 28th and that is why I took another COVID test (feeling better) and found out within 24 hours I tested positive. Therefore I am quarantined and my procedure is postponed.
On Avoid the Maze we share our journeys and believe me this is not the path I had planned for myself. In fact, last weekend giving into my symptoms was not on my agenda but I didn’t have much of a choice and I knew I needed to take care of myself. However, as careful as we may be and as much as we may plan, sometimes we have to face the obstacles and follow the fork in the road.
There once was a time I would have gotten very upset if my plans got altered. I believed I was not complete/good enough/ or worthy if I had to say ‘NO’. I felt compelled to work through my angst both the physical and mental challenges. As my friend and coach Candace Pollock would ask – “and how did that work for you?” and my honest response today is- it didn’t work, I felt even more broken!
Today I am sharing this quick journey with you and ask you to please be kind to yourself. Additionally, stop judging other people for the choices they make. We don’t have to agree with each other but we need to be respectful and keep the dialogue going so we can understand one another. Do not be the bully who tells someone else how to live their life. Be more like Candace and ask the question how is it working for you. Listen to the answer which often is, it’s not working. Again, don’t tell them what to do but you could suggest that they may want to try another approach.
Last night I was watching a ROM-COM about two couples who broke up and the female from one break up did not want to end the relationship and she felt lost and incomplete – the other couple the female who broke off a long term relationship to seek out what she thought she wanted and her male counterpart felt misplaced wanting to resurrect the relationship. Now I want to tell you how it ends just in case you find this on Amazon Prime, but it is the perfect scenario for Avoid the Maze. We can plan all we want but we do not have 100% control over how things play out.
Not to get political but to offer another observation, some people cannot understand or believe that the Ukrainian People chose not to leave the Ukrain until the attacks were real. Many people are commenting that they should have known that PUTIN was going to attack and that they had plenty of time to leave. The question is and go where? The Ukrainians did not want this war and they tried to...
