Comments on: Climbing past worry… http://brooknoel.com/2009/02/climbing-past-worry/ Start Living the Life You Want, Today! Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Laraine http://brooknoel.com/2009/02/climbing-past-worry/#comment-2284 Laraine Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:37:08 +0000 http://brooknoel.com/?p=291#comment-2284 I know that I'm a little bit late with this one but this came at such a perfect time for me. DH suffered a stroke and had a 4 hour brain operation on 1/29. Since that time, I have worried about everything and anything. My friends have tried to convince me to take one day at a time but that hasn't been possible for me. I'll keep this good morning close to my heart. I'm creating a lot of stress that I don't need in my life by creating solutions to problems that I don't have and that I may never have. Bargainmom will be i my thoughts and prayers and I hope that anyone who reads this will keep my dear husband of 37 years and myself in their thoughts and prayers. I know that I’m a little bit late with this one but this came at such a perfect time for me. DH suffered a stroke and had a 4 hour brain operation on 1/29. Since that time, I have worried about everything and anything. My friends have tried to convince me to take one day at a time but that hasn’t been possible for me. I’ll keep this good morning close to my heart. I’m creating a lot of stress that I don’t need in my life by creating solutions to problems that I don’t have and that I may never have. Bargainmom will be i my thoughts and prayers and I hope that anyone who reads this will keep my dear husband of 37 years and myself in their thoughts and prayers.

]]> By: bargainmom08 http://brooknoel.com/2009/02/climbing-past-worry/#comment-2236 bargainmom08 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:56:08 +0000 http://brooknoel.com/?p=291#comment-2236 What do I worry about? That is an easy one to answer. Since I had to retire last May after teaching elementary school for 26 years, it has been a very hard road for me. I quit teaching because my health was falling apart. I was fighting a losing battle against Sjogren's Syndrome and a rare, spinal disease, Cervical Adhesive Arachnoiditis. And to top all of this off, I had a stroke at about the same time that I retired and did not know it. Nothing to worry about, huh? Worry #1 - Sjogren's is a disease that attacks your joints and can basically destroy any part of your body that relates to moisture. This can be organs, joints, tissue, etc. Why me? Why me? Why me? Worry #2 - My spinal disease is not only very, very painful, but the place where mine is located in the neck, could cause instant paralysis or death. I constantly think - What if I fall? What if someone falls on me? What if I have a wreck? What if? What if?? What if??? Worry #3 - If a person has one stroke, they have a much higher likelihood of having another one at some point. I don't want to leave my children when they are just becoming young adults. I want to see them living the life that I have shaped them for all these years. I want to see them married. I want to have grandchildren to play with and spoil. I want. I want. I want. Now that I am beginning to recuperate from the stroke and have learned to control my Sjogren's, as well as it can be controlled, and have a pretty good hold on the level of my pain, I know that it is time to begin living again. I am scared. I have been a teacher all my life. What else can I do? I am not able to work full time, but I want to feel as if I have an important part in this world. I made my name as a teacher and now I must make another name. Not that of a disabled, retired teacher, but that of a person who contributes to life and others in a new way. Can I do this? Can I? Can I? Who me, worry???? Why should I worry?? I can't because I plan to live again!! Wish me luck. Wish me success. Wish me .............. What do I worry about?
That is an easy one to answer. Since I had to retire last May after teaching elementary school for 26 years, it has been a very hard road for me. I quit teaching because my health was falling apart. I was fighting a losing battle against Sjogren’s Syndrome and a rare, spinal disease, Cervical Adhesive Arachnoiditis. And to top all of this off, I had a stroke at about the same time that I retired and did not know it. Nothing to worry about, huh?

Worry #1 – Sjogren’s is a disease that attacks your joints and can basically destroy any part of your body that relates to moisture. This can be organs, joints, tissue, etc. Why me? Why me? Why me?

Worry #2 – My spinal disease is not only very, very painful, but the place where mine is located in the neck, could cause instant paralysis or death. I constantly think – What if I fall? What if someone falls on me? What if I have a wreck? What if? What if?? What if???

Worry #3 – If a person has one stroke, they have a much higher likelihood of having another one at some point. I don’t want to leave my children when they are just becoming young adults. I want to see them living the life that I have shaped them for all these years. I want to see them married. I want to have grandchildren to play with and spoil. I want. I want. I want.

Now that I am beginning to recuperate from the stroke and have learned to control my Sjogren’s, as well as it can be controlled, and have a pretty good hold on the level of my pain, I know that it is time to begin living again. I am scared. I have been a teacher all my life. What else can I do? I am not able to work full time, but I want to feel as if I have an important part in this world. I made my name as a teacher and now I must make another name. Not that of a disabled, retired teacher, but that of a person who contributes to life and others in a new way. Can I do this? Can I? Can I?

Who me, worry???? Why should I worry?? I can’t because I plan to live again!! Wish me luck. Wish me success. Wish me …………..

]]> By: Kathy http://brooknoel.com/2009/02/climbing-past-worry/#comment-2234 Kathy Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:45:51 +0000 http://brooknoel.com/?p=291#comment-2234 Thanks for this. It's 1:45 am and I'm up worrying about the future. Fear is such torment. Thanks for this. It’s 1:45 am and I’m up worrying about the future. Fear is such torment.

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