Perspective

Two funny stories:
Alika went to Kohls to buy a bra with Kohls cash I had given her as a babysitting bonus. She puts her bra on the counter and the casheir says "Alika"? She looks up and it is someone she was friends with in H.S. who went from being a shrimp to six foot plus (and his voice changed). Alika said "you got tall" he said "and good looking." Ahh and of course she was buying a bra. Oh well.

Yesterday at work I was in the bathroom and I got a gusher of a nose bleed. Blood was pouring on the floor and all over the toilet and I was pinching my nose and trying to get toilet paper. Linda (Claudia's sister) was in the bathroom. I said "crap, I'm bleeding everywhere I need help." Linda said "that can't be good" and handed a tampon over the stall.  I said Linda, "I've had a hysterectomy." She said "I know, that's why it can't be good." I came out holding my nose and we both had a needed laugh.

Not funny story:
Don's sister Dava went in for a hysterectomy last week. She called me a couple of days before and asked how mine was. I told her it was a peice of cake, and no worries. Well, mine was a peice of cake her was a peice of crap. Her uterus had adhesions to her bowels and they had to resect them. Her laparascopic became open. Then she had an ileus. They sent her home in pain, not pooping. She went back and on CT they found she had urine in her abdomen all the way up to her lungs. They readmitted her and were taking her back to surgery to try to fix her bladder. That really sucks.

Life is stressful and I try to keep it in perspective. There's stress about family, stress about health and then stress about business. It's interesting how stress about my business can affect me as much as stress about family and health. I wish it wasn't true but it is. I keep looking at Sean and trying to put things into perspective but it doesn't seem to decrease my stress. I know life can't be easy all the time there are always obstacles. I guess one of the good things about stress is it feels good when it stops. I also think about Haiti and Chile and all the people living in desperation and try to keep perspective. I know that's all vague but I'm really too stressed to write about what's stressing me. I have a lot of people telling me things will be ok and I am trying hard to be positive.