I am not a writer of poems, novels or even a paper back book. I will leave the writing of those things to the very talented hands of my wonderful sister in law and future popular author. But I wanted to write in this blog and tell my life story. I do have a journal that I write in day by day but here I can go into better detail about certain events but not write the every day mundane things (such as oh look I blinked). I hope you enjoy my thoughts, feelings and adventures good and bad.
The year 2010 has come and gone and it has left some scars on my family. We have dealt with losing jobs to dealing with depression which lead to a serious health issue. After receiving the news that I had Congestive Heart Failure I went into a tail spin emotionally. I couldn’t help but think what was going to happen now? I have no job, no insurance and I was scared. There were several times I thought that it was the end for me on this earth and I was scared to go to sleep but my body made me sleep and I kept waking up.
On a good sign all the tests that I had showed that I was in good health in other ways. My cholesterol is normal and I'm not a diabetic. Then I got some good news. The doctor said that if I could get my weight off my heart would be better. That is what was killing me was my weight. I had tried losing weight before but it always ended badly and I regained the weight again. Then I realized I was doing it for other people and not for me. When I was told that if the weight came off and that I would do better, I had no idea what to do. Then it came to mind. Heather was always going to see her grandmother at the care center to play cards. I decided to with her and while she played cards I would walk the halls. at first it was not fun. I could only walk so far and when I would pass the rooms the residents would look at me like I was some evil entity that invaded there home and I wanted to quit. It was the encouragement of my friends and my new friends at the care center that made me keep going. With that encouragement I have lost a grand total of 35 pounds and am still going at it.
Anyway to make this soon to be very long and very wordy story a short one, 2010 was hard but we made it through faith in Heavenly Father. I know that 2011 will be great for me and my family.
2 comments:
I enjoyed reading your progress. Thanks for sharing and I beleive that you are the keeper of your own life. Zach said that to me the other day - he's 7 yrs. old and understands choice better then I do. I beleive '11 will only be better, because you can only look up when you've been flat on your back.
Gary, I'm with Dave on this one. You had probably the worst year of your life... but you've shown real strength in working to get better. Things will just keep getting better. You're a great example to the rest of us!
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