Little Pitfalls Along the Way

     Just a little update about the "little pitfalls along the way".   Several days ago I came down with an eye infection that looks now like someone punched me in the eye.  It is basically a stye which I have had before, but not like this and not in this eye.   The amusing part of this is that my brother-in-law George and my sister Margie have both had eye infections lately for one diagnoses or another and have both been on meds. 

    So, the other day, I woke up with a pain between my nose and my left eye and redness and swelling curving down around my cheek bone (like where swim goggles curve).  When I went to my eye doc, she said it was a stye.  I was surprised because I could not see that but I did have pain.  She surmised that maybe I might have MRSA (??) and so prescribed a medicine which I never want to see again called Clindamycin...  I took one pill last night and thought my whole upper GI tract was on fire, plus, I had the worst indigestion for several hours.   I did take it with lots of water and I ate with it.  I took Mylanta a few hours later and finally got to sleep after midnight.            This morning, after breakfast, low and behold, severe intestinal pains happened in my lower abdomen before an onslaught of you-know-what.  Since then, I have not taken any more and no matter what, will NEVER EVER take that again.  Chemo on my insides is enough without aggravating my insides with THAT HORRIBLE PILL plus my hiatal (sp) hernia too?

     So, now she has put me on Keflex.   I guess I will have to tell my oncologist all of this.  Off and on all day, I am still feeling the effects of that one horrible pill!

    The second little "pitfall", besides the eye infection and the indigestion, is that I am now going for 4 weeks, twice a week, for some kind of water, electrode therapy that is supposed to help my numbness in my feet.  Well, if I am in the 50 percentile of good results, it will work.  If not, we just don't do it anymore.  I think insurance gives you 8 treatments to find out if it works.  So far, I don't see a difference:(

     Well, I always remember my mother saying when you get old, you spend most of your time at doctor's appointments:)

      Meanwhile, I always have to remind myself that we have to take each day as a gift and when something comes up to "trip" us along the way, it is how we handle it. 
    So, here is how modern day😄 Jeremiah(?) says it in The Message in Lamentations 3:22-24

     "God's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up.  They're created new every morning.  How great your faithfulness.  I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over).  He is all I've got left."