I have been neglecting my blog lately. I usually enjoy writing idiotic/meaningless posts about the hilarity/annoyances of my day at work or my day in general, but lately I’ve found myself ridiculously busy.  Most of it is because I have worked for the past… EVERY day that I can remember and my sleep schedule is kind of odd, so I don’t give myself a big chunk of time to get anything done.

I do this weird thing where when I know i’m going out of town soon I make this lengthy list of all the things I need to get done. Then I take that list and prioritize all the items on that list, in order, on a separate list. It’s very strange, but helps me stay on task. I am like a kindergartener who absolutely cannot stay attentive or on task and will meander around with toys (my computer/any sort of art i feel like making) unless something of authority (my prioritized list) dictates to me otherwise.

I hate this! I stress myself out too much. And on top of all of this I have to schedule in workouts. Gah!

Really, my life is not this bad. I know I sound like a cynical person, but in a twisted way I try to find the humor in the annoying parts of life, that way they’re not as annoying and more easy to take on.

I was talking to my parents last night, and my mom was telling me and my dad a story about someone she’s aquainted with through her work.  In a nutshell, she knows a family that is BRAND NEW to Tucson. The wife just recently had a baby (recently as in the past 3 months), and has another young child. The husband just got hired as a doctor at UMC hospital and a few days ago the wife just randomly collapsed. They called the paramedics and after getting into the ambulance they lost her and revived her FOUR times because her heart was enlarged and not functioning normally.  She is now in a coma and was found to have an infection in her uterus and appendix. Later on, she started having lung complications and now the doctors don’t know the main cause of all of the infections or if she has more that they can’t detect at the moment. Meanwhile, she is STILL in a coma.

My mom said that the husband of this family has a lot of faith that his wife will be ok and has found alot of blessings in this unfortunate situation;

- there happened to be a heart doctor on board the ambulance to help revive her when her heart quit several times
- doctors don’t think she has suffered any brain damage
- while in a coma, the wife can show response when told “blink if you can hear us talk” and she can move her eyelids.
- their LDS church is helping the family with taking care of her newborn baby and small child and accommodating them with food and other needs.

My point of this story is that when we think our lives are tough, or annoying, or boring, or hard, they’re really not. People suffer from catastrophic situations every day and we’re lucky that it’s not happening to us. This family doesn’t know anybody here, has 2 children including the brand new baby, the husband works full time as a doctor, and the mother of those children is in a coma and was saved from death four times.

For me, nothing is worthy of a complaint when I hear a story like this.