Mono…

I live in Florida and I wasn’t born here so when it gets a bit colder I’m smiling ear to ear in a long sleeve shirt while my coworker has a hoodie and a blanket and she’s still shivering. I roll my eyes at Floridians antics and enjoy the weather while it lasts.

Around this time last year, I experienced a sickness that completely wiped me out. I was working two jobs my regular in the morning and then at a restaurant in the evenings. Money was great but I was constantly exhausted and then I got sick. I missed a month and a half at my first job and two months at my other one. It was awful, at the time I felt like I was letting everyone down and I couldn’t get over the fact that I just wasn’t getting better. I went to three different urgent cares for them just to give me medicine that never worked and the last one I went to I said that I wanted a mono test and they wouldn’t do it. They gave me steroids instead and I was throwing up the next day. Imagine, you’re sick and you’ve been sick for a while now and you keep trying to go to the doctors and nothing at all is helping or working. Finally my mom made me go to a proper physicians appointment and I tested positive for mono. I didn’t have any health insurance so by the time I finally got myself a proper diagnosis I spent a thousand dollars trying to figure it out. Looking back now I’m still frustrated that it that long and that much money when if the urgent care centers listened to me than I wouldn’t have gone through all of that.

But listen with all of that happening a year ago I got to leave my house this morning and experience real cold in two years. I got to feel Floridas version of winter when I never did last year. Last year around this time sucked but I have a whole new found appreciation that I’m healthy and able to experience this now. I think It’s really easy to wrapped up in the negative side of things and focus on the bad things that happen but here’s my story as a reminder, don’t forget to enjoy the little things. Don’t forget to be great full for the things you can experience and the things that you haven’t yet.

Lots of love, June.