So today is day 2. I get to repeat the same stories over and over and over to a new doctor, a different nurse, a medical student, a social worker, etc…
Anyways, the “medical team” comes in, which consists of a psychiatrist, a resident, and five medical students. They came in and talked to me for about two minutes and said they were going to consult with Family Practice about my diabetes, because it is effing jacked up right now. The resident, who originally interviewed me yesterday, tells me he is coming back in later to talk to me. He never does.
I got to go to a small group meeting about managing stress or something. The meeting consisted of an myself, and OT, and my loud-snoring roommate. We didn’t talk much about learning to manage stress because my roommate talks way to freaking much. One good thing to come of it: we ended up somehow talking about iPods.
I say this is a good thing because somehow, I remember that I have on my iPod nano the full-length version of the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. I’ve never seen the full version of this, just the reprised version. I know I have written about this before previously in this blog. I’m not going into huge detail about the whole lecture, because I really don’t have the time. I will share with you the one part that really sticks out at me.
He talks about brick walls standing in the way to us achieving our goals. But these brick walls aren’t a bad thing necessarily. He says:
“The brick walls are there for a reason. Right? The brick walls are not there to keep us out, the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”
So I guess right now I have some brick walls in the way. I can let them keep me from achieving what I want, or I can prove how badly I want what I am after.
Hopefully tomorrow Kristin remembers to bring in a book to me, so I have some more inspirational stuff to write.
BEST PARTS OF THE DAY: watching the video, having my dad and grandma visit, getting a phone call from Missy!
WORST PARTS OF THE DAY: missing dinner, missing Megan’s call
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