Today I had an appointment with my psychiatrist. I'm stable so far today. I saw a few things that brought me outside of myself. When in depression it can feel all-encompassing, but today I glimpsed out and was richly blessed.
As I started my walk across the parking lot of the medical center I walked near a car where an elderly woman was dragging her legs into a car at the handicapped space. She was using her left hand grabbing her left leg to situate it. The effort made me feel slight guilt at my gait. Because I was early I walked to the plaza where the gift shop was. As I was walking in a slightly older woman walked out talking on her cell telling someone of a prognosis and that she just wanted to let them know how it was going.
As walked toward Mercy Plaza a man carrying two prostetic legs crossed my path.
I got to my appointment and noticed my doctor's face had slid to one side. He explained that he had gotten Bells Palsey telling me how the right side of his face is paralyzed and since he couldn't close his eye he had to watch as a doctor sewed his eyelid shut. Amazing.
I came up for a gurgle.
Then I met a friend at the gas station who had just arrived back in town from attending her father's funeral.
I got on facebook and saw that my sister-in-law who was in Amsterdam broke her ankle and was given pain medication and was getting a cast put on so she could make her flight back to Athens.
I called my daughter and told her that if I hadn't mentioned it before, that she and my husband were everything in the world to me.
No one is exempt.
A year of living like college students. Basically like living on nothing.
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