What I learned from being sick

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Permalink Reply by Reetz on June 15, 2009 at 8:29am

I am also grateful for the months/years on and off I spent in hospital growing up, because I'm sure through that is what's formed my passion and compassion towards people with sickness, now that I'm older. It's what breaks my heart, and because I've been through medical stuff myself I can understand so much more than someone who hasn't suffered medically. So through the struggles comes the understanding and compassion, and connecting with people on a deeper level who are/have done sufferering as well.
This could be the same for people who have gone through divorce, and can now sympathise with others who have been through the same thing, or a loss of a loved one, etc etc.

So yea, totally agree with learning and gaining through espisodes of vulnerability. :)

Glad ta hear your over your cold :)

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Permalink Reply by Silverfire on June 15, 2009 at 8:39am

Oh it was the flu, nasty with fever and bone ache and everything!

We are currently the swine flu capital of the world here and some really nasty variants of the normal flu have popped up and hit the very healthy. Half my work was away when I returned to work, and I still have this weird rattling in my lungs, it's disturbing!

I too was sick as a kid (though only in a short stint). I think being sick as a kid really impacts on our eventual personality, usually in a good way, we get some patience and learn stuff while sitting in a hospital bed eh?

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Permalink Reply by Jef on June 16, 2009 at 12:21pm

Yes, we got sick several weeks ago too. I am grateful because it reminds me of what I need to be doing/eating/etc.

it was this awful chest thing where it sounds like you have a gallon of gunky fluid in there. It got in my head too, like a cold, but after the chest stuff. It was truly awful, and I also wondered what the swine flu symptoms are. If they try to force vaccinations I'll just say we already had it. :) This stuff lasted over a week, and I haven't been really sick for a couple years. The kids had it too, and the healthiest one of them had it the worst. MAde me wonder...

I am grateful for the reminder...sometimes I forget why I'm on this path, and get way off.

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Permalink Reply by yoda on June 16, 2009 at 9:07pm

Ah the southern hemishpere winter bugs! Warning, warning, mutating swine flu!
Sydney is the whooping cough epicenter of the world, I saw one US travel website recommending people get vaccinated before travelling to Sydney. Melbourne seems to be the swine flu capital.
Glad to hear half of your work was actually staying home - it's the silly ones that go into work regardless of how ill they are that are the biggest carriers of whatever..

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