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Thinking sorry for oneself is very human but I find it’s always not very productive. I had a friend write me an e-mail today saying: Wow! That’s about the worst things anybody can be hit with! It was regarding my telling him, that my doctor says I need Open Heart Surgery. At first I was taken aback (for the very first time) with the realization and the gravity of my situation. Which prior to this awakening, both my doctor as well as my offline friends were thinking I’m not taking my condition as well as the upcoming surgery seriously enough. So yeah! He made me think very seriously about it!
So then I thought: “wait a minute,” I can think of a lot worse things that I could be hit by. Like my legs falling off, my arms falling off – especially my right arm, I could be ½ of a Siamese twin; I could be the fattest man in the world 2000! Lbs! I could be deaf, dumb, and blind, I could be a wrongly accused convict and am in prison for the rest of my life, I could be a victim of a car bomb or suicide bomber or for that manner be anything of the hundreds of things that our soldiers have been hit by. I obvious could go on and on. But my point is I’m pretty lucky considering that there is a procedure that can fix me, right here in our country!
So the Open Heart Surgery is only one of my problems that I am having to deal with - and thinking of people having to go through a lot worse somehow helps me deal with my problems better.
