that's Mr. Pill Box. For roughly the past two years, I've been using him to keep track of most of my medicines and supplements. I have roughly a dozen different pill bottles that I use throughout a day so this little invention has been a life saver! It's almost empty, tomorrow morning's pills are all I have left to take and then I must fill it again. I swear, it feels like I just did that yesterday...
That feeling happens a lot. Each week, I'm struck at how quickly the last week's pills have disappeared. Many times, this saddens me because it's another reminder of how life is passing quickly and I feel like I'm stuck in limbo while everything, including time, goes on without me. In a way, each week I have to fill it with pills, is another week I know I'll be feeling crappy and just wish I was better - I wish I was done with Mr. Pill Box because then I'd be done with being sick.
But, Mr. Pill Box is a necessary evil. Without him, on the really bad brain fog days, it would be too easy to mix up my meds and I don't want to do anything that could potentially make my day worse than it has to be. I just never thought it would be something I'd have to use this early in life. I know I'm not the first young adult to have an illness, I'm just explaining that it really was something I didn't expect to need til much later.
It's true that the older we get, time seems to go faster and faster. For now, instead of having a baby or projects at work be what reminds me of that, I have Mr. Pill Box. It's not my first or second or third or any choice but it's what must be. I was talking with my sister yesterday about how faith is accepting what must be - even when we don't like it - and how it takes real trust and real obedience to believe that and continue following God's ways. A good friend gave me a sign that hangs above the entry to my living room. It states, "Faith makes things possible, not easy." It's a truth that has given me courage throughout this trial and I hope it encourages you like it has me.
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