What to Do When Life Pushes You Around

How I learned to kick passivity in the butt

Image by Buck Buckley from Pixabay

Last Sunday night I drove myself to the emergency room.

I’ve had a health problem I’ve ignored for years. But the past few weeks, it has grabbed my attention and wouldn’t let go.

Black and Blue Monday

It all started when I had an accident at work a few years ago. I bruised my hip to the bone when I fell off my delivery truck. The case of diced pears I landed on didn’t fare well either. My hip swelled and turned the darkest shade of purple I’d ever seen. I was treated at the hospital and went home.

The fluid the injury generated went where gravity took it — the next closest container.

I went to three doctors. The second told me I had a hydrocele. I spent all l had at the time and finally just decided to live with it (I didn’t have insurance).

Last week I decided enough was enough.

When Life Pushes You

Does it ever seem like everything happens at once? You get sick. Half the appliances in your house break. You lose a lesson video when your computer dies.

It makes you want to throw your hands in the air and say, “The hell with it.”