Somebody Always Has It Worse
Once a month the ChicagoNow Blogging community does a writing project. We get a topic a 9 pm central. We have an hour to write and edit. At 10 pm, everyone publishes. Tonight's topic is "Write about something you learned or experienced since you woke up this morning."
You ever have one of those days where it starts out bad and it continually gets worse? Of course you have...everyone does. They start out bad, gets worse, something else happens and you think you're at the bottom. Then you realize you can see the bottom. Finally you get to the bottom and the day ends. PHEW!!
Welcome to my week!! Not a day...but an entire damn week.
You may have read about some of the issues. If you haven't, well why not?!! But really it's been one sucky event after another since last Friday.
I've had letters and calls from the Disability department. We need this. we need that. Can you go to the hospital and send us a report. Bad!
Followed by going to a doctor's appointment where the doctor lost the results he wanted to tell me about. Worse
Followed by an episode with my cell phone company. Disconnected twice, no call backs. Finally get through again. No apology. Not given the solution to the problem I called about. Finished with " You'll be getting a call to rate our performance. Can you give us the highest rating? REALLY? You're serious? Much worse!!
Finally, the holidays are getting to me. This isn't a good time of the year for me. There's lots I'd like to do that I'm just not capable of doing. It's really stressful. I wish they were over. SCROOGE!! Bottom? Not quite.
Finished off by meeting a psychiatrist, who works for the government, and wants to put me through an hours worth of psychological testing. At the end of the hour, he recommends drugs for anxiety and depression. Apparently I wasn't upbeat enough for him. I can feel it coming...BOTTOM!!!
So as you can tell, I'm in a suck ass mood. I'm not the person you want to be around...at least for the next few days.
Then this afternoon, I had my weekly therapy appointment. I ranted for one hour about all of this. At that point, I was spent. See ya next week for more holiday cheer.
I left the office and found her next patient in the waiting room....in a wheelchair. And thus the title of this rant.
Now that wasn't a new concept for me. It was just reinforced.
I took a little time to think about that tonight.
There are people reading this and also writing tonight , who have health challenges far greater than mine. I have a few friends who fought and lost that battle. How does this trivial bullshit even begin to compare!
I have a lot to be grateful for this holiday season. I have two wonderful daughters. They'll even be in the same state next week!! I have other friends and family that are loving and supportive. And even though, I do have some health issues, it definitely could be worse.
Things are looking up....maybe not tonight. Maybe not even tomorrow, but soon.
I'm sure this will happen again. But I need to keep reminding myself to be thankful because somebody always has it worse.