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Hope
I had a very rough few months, in and out of the hospital with complications following my surgery. I could have told them if I had been right in the head that because I had a bilateral adrenalectomy years ago, when I’m sick I need a higher dose of replacement steroids. Oops, they forgot that. For a while I really didn’t see light at the end of the tunnel. But one day a woman whom I had never seen before came into the room and asked if I would like any chapstick lip moisturizer. With my parched lips from dehydration and me having left my chapstick at home, it was the one thing in the world I wanted at that moment. I took it as a sign. I slathered that comfort over my lips and the comfort spread to the rest of my body. I knew then that I wouldn’t be in the hospital forever, I wasn’t going to die, and I would get better. It was only a few days later that they let me go home. Hope comes from the strangest places, but it is a very powerful medicine. –
As printed in the VHL Family Forum 18:2, May 2010. For permission to reprint, please contact VHL Family Alliance, editor@vhl.org. Further information is available from the VHL Family Alliance, info@vhl.org. mystory |
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