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"Regain Your Confidence, Reclaim Your Life">
Practicing Gratitude
March 29, 2010
I have been pushing through and working for the past two weeks - continuing to do my Women of Confidence Wellness Tele-summit interviews on Tuesday evenings, doing the Write Your Book in a Weekend weekend last week with Donna Kozik and the Barefoot Mastermind crew, doing my individual and group coaching and to everyone out there things have probably looked pretty normal from this end.
But for the past two weeks I have been dealing with a severe allergic reaction to something. Possibly a chemical they sprayed to deal with an ant issue that popped up when it started getting warm. The rash and itching were so exteme that up until yesterday I thought I was going to lose my mind from it, and it was becoming harder and harder to concentrate on anything, especially work and social networking.
I spent my second night in the emergency room last night, with my dear daughter, and wondeful business manager, by my side. The ER was packed and we had a long wait, after which they put me in a trauma room, I think more because they were short on space than to keep me isolated, as this had been going on for almost two weeks and no one else has caught it. Finally they gave me a shot of steroids and a prescription for more of the same. Ahhh, sweet relief :)
But while waiting to be signed out after being treated they brought an OD into the same trauma rooom, a woman my age - "40ish" was how the nurse put it. My eyes teared up as I listened to her daughter, who looked to be about the same age as my dear daughter, list the drugs the woman had taken. It was a list of 5 drugs starting with prescription sleeping pills and ending with Crystal Meth.
Wow, my problem, which had been all consuming just an hour before suddenly paled in comparison. To imagine what this woman, and her family must be going through.
I woke up this morning with a minimal amount of itching. The weather was warm, and I was lucky enogh to be able to spend the day with my family. In the afternoon I sat in the sun and weeded my badly winter overgrown flowerbeds - the crocus are in bloom - and tonight I took a walk in the cool night air, with a light mist of rain falling over me, and was grateful. Grateful for my life, my health - such as it is, my family and the emotional and spiritual growth I've experienced over the past years.
I am a lucky woman. No, I am a blessed woman :)
So take a moment to count your wins, your blessings, your gratitudes - whatever you call them, count them.
Have a beautiful weekend!
Belief & Blessings,
Viki
Viki Stanley-Hutchison
Certified Life & Business Coach
Life Transitions for Women
www.lifetransitionsforwomen.com
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