Have you ever sat down and wondered how you got into the situation you find yourself in? Everything seems to be happening at once, and you feel overwhelmed.  

Life is what goes on around you. 99% of it is not in our control. Our life is what goes on in our world that we live in. We like to think we are in control of that. Occasionally, we lose control and end up in the situations described above. I have just had such an experience and would like to share it with you.

I had a two-week period where the following things all were happening. I am selling my condo, and the real-estate lady is doing a great job of keeping me informed on the activity about the sale. She calls me often so I stay informed.  A good thing.

I had gone blind in my left eye due to a cataract and needed surgery to remove it. I made an appointment for the surgery.

I developed bad pains in my abdomen. I went to the local emergency room. They decided that it was my gall bladder and put me in the hospital. I was told they could not take it out until the infection was cured. I spent four days in a hospital bed. The only clothes I had on was a gown that only covered my front half.

I was told I was being discharged in an hour. I needed someone to take home. I called Karin; she could not come, she was at her doctor’s office. She said she would find someone to come get me.

There was a man , asleep, in the other bed of my room.

I’m all tucked in bed and have to empty my bladder. All the above is needed to know, to understand what happened next.

I was alone with my roommate sleeping. I took my urinal, pushed down the blanks and pulled up my gown, so I could place the urinal in place just as three visitors came to visit my roommate. I quickly pulled my blankets up to my waist to cover the urinal.

A nurse came in with discharge papers for me to sign and put them on my table. I was signing them when my phone rang. My daughter was calling to tell me she was coming to pick me up. I went back to signing papers. The phone rang again. It was my real estate lady wanting to tell me about the open house she had just come from. I told her I was busy and would call her back. I signed one more paper and that nurse left, then the phone rang again. It was Karin telling me she had reached Diane to pick me up.

All of this took place in 15 minutes while I was covertly urinating and hoping the urinal was in the proper location. I had no way of telling.  The roommate’s visitors stayed for 15 minutes more and left.

I carefully pushed the covers down to see if I had a mess or a successful challenge. Once again, I cheated death. The urinal was full.

My life is like a play on the Act III stage. The only hard part is I don’t always get to write the script. When I left the hospital, I was hungry for some real food and went out for dinner. I told the waiter that I was really hungry, asked what was on the menu would he recommend? He thought for a few seconds and said, “A bowl of rice, (I must have looked confused because he added), It comes with 1,500 pieces”. I thought my trainer was the only one who understood me. When I asked him what exercise machine I should use to make me irresistible to beautiful women? He said, “For you it would have to be the ATM machine”.

Life is so much fun if you live it and don’t sit on the sideline and just watch the game. Get in there and catch a few passes. If you want to move ahead, you must choose friends that want to, also. Don’t let them leave you behind. Push them, make them keep up with you.

HOOAAAAAA

MEET THE CHALLENGE

YOU CAN DO IT.