Daily Devotions

I have felt for the past several years that I have let my daily devotion time go to the wayside. It was in the darkest times that I look back on my favorite poem from high school. You know the one about there only being one set of foot prints... I made it a point after the first of the year to go to the local Christian bookstore and purchase a daily devotional. I was drawn to one that in all actuality is probably in my box of books from the year spent at Bible college.



My Utmost for His Highest was a good fit for me. I have found (on the days that I remember to pick it up) that the daily topics, even though written primarily in the early 1900's hit home. I should make more time, and more importantly regular time, to sit with my daily devotional and actually explore the scripture verses a little more. I guess we can all continue to grow in what ever direction we choose!

Sorry to turn my blog into a religious forum although that was not the intent. I just wanted to share what seemed to help get me through the hard times and hopefully will keep me grounded during the bright times!

May God bless and keep you all!

Cheers!

Meds

Well good news and bad news. I had my lowest BP reading in four days this afternoon. The bad news is it was still high. After some discussion with my Dr which actually started Saturday (should have taken the Tequila treatment plan more seriously), I am now starting on some meds to control this horrible beast.

The worst part about the whole ordeal is that I have no idea how long it has been going on and I have ABSOLUTELY zero symptoms. Every twitch of my body I have been trying to find a way to connect it to my blood pressure even though I know it is not connected at all.

My hope for all of this is to move forward and enter one of the healthiest stages of my life. While 2007 damn near killed me, 2008 is going to be the start of the rest of my life.

I'll try to do my best to document the highlights!

Cheers!

Yikes

There are so many reasons for that title. First of all. There have been so many things take place since my last post the end of August. Namely, I lost my job the end of the first week of September. I hope you will all understand that the last thing I really felt like doing was putting my thoughts on this damn thing. After almost 5 months of searching and absolutely ZERO job offers, I had two offers within about 15 hours of each other.

I am absolutely thrilled that my family and I will be staying put in Grinnell. I accepted a job offer from Family Medicine to be the Office Manager. The current office manager is ready to join her husband (the founder of the clinic) in retirement. The amazing part of this position is that I started working on a part time basis as a typist. I was typing up the office notes that the physicians would dictate. I went in on a Saturday morning and had a great conversation with the office manager. I had lunch with her and the physicians on Wednesday and was offered the position on Thursday. WOW! As I mentioned before I couldn't be happier with the position. The physicians and the other staff in the office are absolutely wonderful and have welcomed me into their family without flinching at all.

My other major YIKES is my blood pressure. Since I am across the street from the hospital everyday I couldn't let the opportunity pass to utilize the wellness center on a regular basis. One of the things that they have every member do is a fitness evaluation. However, I didn't even get that far. One of the first things that Amber, the fitness specialist, did was take my BP. It was amazingly high. After about 10 minutes and several measurement later it had only succeeded in going even higher. I knew one of our physicians was still at the clinic (after an crazy Friday) so I headed back over to talk to him. My BP was now slightly lower, but still REALLY high. He suggested relaxing over the weekend and we would revisit the issue on Monday. Of course if anything presented itself symptom wise over the weekend I should head to the ER. Of course every possible situation runs through my head all weekend long and I don't know how much relaxing I've actually gotten accomplished even without doing a whole heck of a lot (except about 10 loads of laundry).

I just checked my BP again and even after a whole long weekend it is still high. I just want to try and make this all better!

As people have been telling me for the past 5 months, everything happens for a reason. So know not only do I have to figure out what the lesson I was meant to learn from unemployment, I also have to try and figure out what extreme BP is supposed to teach me. Oh yeah and hopefully get it under control SOON!

I'll keep you posted and hopefully this time be better at this blog thing...

Cheers