What to Do When the Journey is Too Much for You
// “Oh my goodness! Are you going to faint? Lie down, quickly!”
The frantic voice cutting through the fuzziness of the moment was that of my doctor. It was time for my annual physical, and I had just raced to get there on time.
It was one of those mornings.
I remember saying to her, “I feel normal.”
“Shauna, your blood sugar is dangerously low! What have you eaten today?”
Believe it or not, my answer was… “I have a banana in the car.”
She just shook her head and looked at me incredulously.
“It’s not going to HELP you unless you eat it.”
Haha! That memory came back to bite me this week when I jumped up from a short afternoon nap to find myself fainting face-first into the corner of our bed. Thank goodness, I only face-planted into the mattress and not the dresser beside it.
I skipped lunch that day because I got busy with appointments, but also because I was going to have supper with some of my mentoring leaders that evening. Once again, I had delayed eating and put myself in danger.
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Don’t you just get tired of being emotional and having tears brimming just below the surface? I am so tired of it. This has been quite the year of being super emotional and having to deal with it… daily.