Week 5 Day 6: A Fantastic Day

Today I woke up on top of the world! I had quite a few things to get done, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to go, but I got up and got ready anyways. I took care of the animals, and tried to eat breakfast. I don’t know what to tell you, but it filled me so much I couldn’t finish the thing. This was breakfast:

Huevos Rancheros. So filling.

So it ended up being two meals for me today. This is the first meal I’ve found to be so filling. But hey, at least that means I’m not going hungry!

After taking care of home things, I went out. I first stopped at the registry to provide them with a copy of my husband’s work permit to extend his Health care. I then went to the bank to get a new bank card. I hate the chips they put on the cards. This is my third card since it has begun. I miss the swipe cards. I also took out the cash I needed for a later appointment.

I then went to the strip mall and looked in Wal-Mart for pyjamas for pyjama day but wasn’t really impressed with any of them. I went next door to Mark’s Work Wearhouse to see what they had for pyjamas but they did not carry any women’s sleepwear at all. So I put this task aside for now.

I then went to the DollarStore to pick up a few things for my classroom. I then went to the health food store to get liquid B12 for a morning drink. And after all of these things, I still left the mall at the exact minute I knew I needed to and got to my appointments on time. It was a morning for the books!

My chiropractor appointment went well today. She didn’t even have to use the little kicker thing on me. So I count this as a success. I then went to my acupuncture appointment and my acupuncturist was so impressed she said I should come one more time in two weeks and if things are still this good, I can be released until I feel I need to come back. Yes! Improvements are important!

I then went to the car and ate my second meal that I had brought with me. This was another Simply Whey Protein bar in chocolate mint flavour. This was pretty good and it helped to keep me on track!

After I quickly ate the bar, I drove straight to my physiotherapy appointment. I went to get that popping rib muscle checked out. I had a bit of time before, so I went to that Dollarama to find a couple more things I needed. I then went to the appointment, she assessed me and unfortunately had a hard time diagnosing me due to the area it was located on my ribs. However, she gave me some exercises to do and some stretches and told me to come back at any time that I felt I needed to.

Following this, I came home and did a few things while trying to get in my nutrition for the rest of the day. My meal three was the chicken salad snack (which I’ve had before). Veggies and a scoop of the chicken salad that goes on the chicken spinach salad. Delicious and again, filling.

When my husband came home, we had a bit of dramatic evening where my brother-in-law told us some awful news pertaining to their cousin, and some great news pertaining to himself. Of course this took up way too much time, and Fridays are always time-restrained because the gym closes early. So we went out to Pizza Hut where my husband had the usual amazing things and I had a salad with chicken. I did leave enough room for half of a breadstick, and that was my treat for the night. I fought any and all urges to eat the rest. A small, but important success.

Then we raced home, got ready for the gym, and had a phenomenal workout. It consisted of two circuits again, mainly for back, legs and abs. I pretty much died doing plank-ups and exercise ball planks with circular motion. Oh my. My abs will never be the same! And my legs were in so much pain because the gym was getting close to closing and I had to fit in hack squats, leg presses, and side chops. So my rests were basically non-existent and my legs were crying in pain. You know what they say, no pain no gain!

After the gym, I had two more meals to fit in. I couldn’t do it. I just was not hungry. I’m not sure what’s going on with my body. But I did eat one last meal.

Chicken Stir Fry.

And with that, I went to bed. Hopefully my appetite comes back!

Recruiting Some Prayers

Hello everyone.

I hope you all had a great weekend! Did you do anything special for Father’s Day? I took my husband out for breakfast (just somewhere fast), made him drive, giving him the directions as we went along (to keep the destination a surprise), took him to an antique museum that was hosting an antique car show (early 1900s and later), and then later took him out for supper at a Persian restaurant we have never tried before. Overall, we had a fantastic day!

But as my title says, I’m also requesting some heavy prayers. Of course, Father’s Day is a day on the phone for me as I call my two fathers and my two grandfathers. I found out that my one grandfather, on my French side, who has battled cancer but has succeeded in conquering remission, although left significantly weaker, has been sick twice in the last two months. Now for most people, this could be no big deal. But add his already current weak state that was left by the cancer, and the fact that the first time he was sick, it took a month to overcome, this second sickness is nothing but trouble. I guess my grandmother caught it from him, and he got it back from her. Of course, she’s feeling guilty as she watches her husband suffer with no energy, no appetite, etc. Especially after she just lost a brother a year or two ago, and just lost another brother a week ago. I know she fears losing her husband too. And to top it all off, the funeral for her brother is this coming weekend. So not only am I asking you to pray for him to get better, but to be better by this weekend. My grandmother needs his love and support as she deals with the loss of a close brother. So the magnitude of this prayer is strong. Please pray.

The second request I have came with news we received yesterday. My husband’s brother who went through surgery was released from hospital on Friday. He made the journey home, and I’m pretty sure was celebrating that he no longer had to live in a hospital. However, yesterday, he was close to “blacking out” several times, and so his mother took him back to the hospital. The doctors assumed he was just dehydrated and thus hooked him up to a fluid IV and later sent him home. Upon return of home, he fully passed out and hit the floor. Of course this meant a turnaround trip back to the hospital where they are considering much more serious options than simple dehydration. This means more tests. His doctors in the larger city were notified, and last I heard, the debate was whether or not to take him back to the larger hospital. Unfortunately, his hospital life is not over yet. I ask for such sincere prayer for him. I cannot even begin to fathom what he is experiencing, the hopelessness as he looks at his dire position. He needs lifted up into the hands of our Father who is the only one who truly knows what is going on with him. My husband is having a hard time with the situation, especially not being allowed to leave the country. I cannot request prayer enough. This family needs your help. Please pray.

One last item that I learned today and also requires some hefty prayers concerns a colleague of mine in an incredibly unfortunate situation. She is planning on getting married in August, something she highly looks forward too. She was raised by adoptive parents, but of course had sent invitations to her biological parents whom she doesn’t speak to often, but every once in awhile. Her father never returned his confirmation for the wedding, but she had just assumed he had never thought to. Of course, she called him for Father’s Day, but instead of hearing her normal father’s voice, was shocked to hear how hard it was for him to breathe and speak. It was to her dismay that there was a reason that he never returned the reservation, and that was simply because he didn’t know if he’d be alive by then. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer, and one lung has already collapsed. Something so sudden and yet he was so fearful of breaking the news to his children, especially the one who really wants him to be there for her wedding. As you can assume, this news hits hard. There is nothing that can relieve the pain of finding our your dad could be gone in a few months, and possibly just before you wed. There’s a special place for dads at their daughter’s wedding, and they fear this void will be there instead. Please pray for this whole thing. Pray for her father’s life, and pray for her strength and endurance. I know I would be devastated, and I can only imagine she is as well. Pray for not only their relationship, but also his with God. There is nothing more important than being ever closer to God when death is so close at hand.

I thank all of you in advance for lifting these situations up in your prayers. It’s hard to watch the people you love and care so deeply about suffer. The question of why God allows these things to happen is a hard one, but one that will be answered when He returns. But in the meantime, God tells us to lift everything up in petition and prayer, and that if we knock, the door shall be opened unto us. So pray for the wellbeing of both my relatives.

If there is any prayers I can lift up for you or any of your situations, please let me know. Prayer is something that can be so powerful, and there is nothing that is too little for prayer. God cares about you, and I do too. Thanks again.