Monday Moments – The sick week
Welcome to MoMo’s! HERE are the guidelines. If this is your first time giving your “amazing story”, PLEASE take time to read them. It will save us both a lot of time.
To join me, write a post today (or a post you’ve written from last Monday to Sunday) sharing something tht has happened to you this last week - anything funny or interesting, crazy, fulfilled, too busy, hilarious, wistful, or any number of out of the ordinary happenings that made you happy or miserable last week. Put a link in your post to this post permalink (not my general URL) and then put the permalink of your post (not your general URL) here at the end of this post. Thanks. By the way, I do this because I love stories. To tell them, to hear them, and to read them.
So tell me your “Inspired by the truth” story every Monday…
Here’s mine.
This last week has been really rough for me. It started last Monday afternon when I arrived home from a trip to New York. I noticed that my back was really hurting me. Now this is not something revolutionarily new in my life. Occasionally when I lift weights wrong or put too much strain on my back when I exercise, this happens to me for a while, but the strange thing about this was that I hadn’t really done anything for like 4 days that would put strain on my back. It just started hurting.
And for 2.5 days of my week it hurt. I had been a to a chiropractor last year, and he had given me some exercises to go through when it started hurting, so I did those, and felt only a bit better after a day or recurring back exercises.
Then on Wednesday I actually justified this to myself: “So, If my back is hurting this bad, and that is without exercise, than I might as well exercise.” So I went out and played basketball on Wednesday night, which not only hurt my back worse, but it also brought in flu like symptons on Thursday.
If Tuesday had been bad, Thursday was just miserable. I was dizzy, unresponsive to conversation, my stomach hurt, my back hurt, and in the evening, I started sneezing, and my back hurt every time I did. I even missed small group and wrote this post that evening.
I should stop now and say that through all this, my wife was on vacation and did an amazing job of taking care of me. So thanks to Carie for her amazing patience!
On Friday – Sunday, I felt a bit better, which ushered in a new problem of a stuffy nose, which is how I finished my week of sickness.
I don’t share this with you to complain. I share this with you so that you will help me come up with a list of things to do when one is sick. For those of you who can sleep all the time, you’re all set – you can sleep all the time. However, I pretty much sleep for about 6 hours a night, and about 30 minutes in the afternoon, and the rest of the day, I need to find things to do when I’m sick. Finding things to do when I’m not sick is easy. I’m not lazy. But things to do when I’m sick…I need help!
Here are some things I did while I was sick and in bed this week:
Blogged
Read
Played snood, the ultimate video game
watched season 1 of Prison Break with my wife
Come on, you can make this list better, can’t you?
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MoMo’s are awesome Marty. I love sharing with you and the fine people out there.
I like to complain when I’m sick!
My biggest challenge is to fit my thoughts into the requested “based on a true story” format as my posts tend to be meandering reflections, not stories so much…
This one began with a realization I’d had in the week, though, and so I guess I might rationalize that it’s sort-of a story in that it’s partially a retelling of the realization that God does not want us to be Comic Book geeks.
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mine is true. its one of the ways God is working in my life. inspiring. challenging (for me at least). and eye opening. i think that this qualifies since i wrote this last tuesday (even though i may have realized that it came to full-fruit on sunday.