HAPPY NEW YEAR, GOOD RIDDANCE 2013!

So 2013 has now come and gone… I am happy to say good bye, don’t let the door hit you on the way out!  Overall the year was good. However, the last month life seemed to fall apart all around me!  First off let me introduce myself… I am not THE Disability Geek, I am Mrs. DI geek filling in for the DI geek himself. I actually just stumbled upon this blog thanks to doncharisma! I was sent an email saying don was now following the DI geek Blog. I decided to check it out and see what blog we had started over a year ago that I knew was not getting the much needed attention it deserved. So here I am, and lucky YOU get to read my post! 

So, back to why I am glad 2013 is over…. The DI geeks Grandma passed away at the end of November. That was the beginning of the downward spiral. She was a wonderful women and lived a long happy life. However, it is always sad to say goodbye. My oldest daughter still talks about Grandma G every night before bed. You see, this was her first funeral, at least the first one she is now old enough to remember. We try to comfort her with fun stories of Grandma and prayers that they will meet again in Heaven.  After the funeral was over and relatives went back home BAM life hit full force. Not only was Christmas fast approaching but my dad, who has been sick off and on for over a year now, went down hill fast!  Like a sled down an icy mountain or like a mom falling down the stairs in the middle of the night! Oh wait, that did happen. My mom went to check on my dad in the middle of the night (my dad has to sleep on the main floor as the stairs are too hard for him) and fell. HARD! Hard enough to black out and get some stitches and a concussion! So now not only was my dad in need of assistance,  so was my mom! I moved in with them for a few days and tried to help them get back on their feet. While I was there staying with them, I was in charge of taking my dad to and from him many doctors appointments. After one appointment we got the results back from blood tests and the results found that my dads kidneys were shutting down. So he was shipped off to stay at the hospital. NOT FUN! My mom was slowly recovering, THANK GOD and we were discovering that my dad would be staying in the hospital longer then we wanted.  

During this time my good friend would call and check on me. She knew the one way she could cheer me up was to let me in on her little secret, their small family of two was going to become a family of three! It was the news I needed. It was that ray of sunshine in the midst of all the storms I was in. Happy was an understatement. I  think I was as happy for that gift as she was. I held onto that secret news and thought about it whenever life was seeming to be too hard to handle. 

A week later in the midst of Christmas Craziness life was seeming to get a little better. My dad was moved to a transitional care facility, in hopes of being able to go back home sooner then later. My sister in law was in town from Texas, always fun!! and the parties had begun. Then the phone rang…my friend was afraid she was miscarrying. Something very close to my heart as I have been through that loss. It was so hard to hear that the one good blessing I was holding onto might be gone, just like that! Then I checked FB to see that another friend was waiting to hear about blood test results. Could it be possibly leukemia, like the doctors thought? Then the text that another friend had asked for prayers; her friends husband admitted to serious drug use. Not only was that hard to handle but the fact that they would probably be losing the 3 kids that they were adopting and the dream house they just signed on to start building. WHAT WAS HAPPENING?!  Oh and during this overwhelming week, two of my three kids started throwing up! Small bananas to the other crap we were trying to deal with. 

So now that it is 2014 I can see the rainbow! Many prayers later my friend’s baby is safe and sound cooking in her belly, and my other friend got word of a MIX UP in the blood test. Who knew Mono was such a blessing?! I continue to pray for my dads recovery and the friend whose husband is now in treatment.

With all this going on around me I am so glad that my husband does what he does. When these bad things happen he is there to help people get the money they need to pay the bills, buy food or simply continue to live life. HOWEVER, he can not help YOU unless YOU first help yourself. Is your income protected? For more information on income protection; disability insurance, life insurance, long term care…. please contact Corey!             corey@securaconsultants.com