Just a Reminder

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This has not been a good day for me but I was reminded yesterday of how incredibly blessed I am.  Incredibly blessed to live in this country, to have a home, plenty of food, 3 beautiful healthy children.  Sometimes all you need is some perspective.  I see patients come to me in pain.  Sometimes it is physical pain but sometimes it is emotional pain.  I have a patient who I started seeing a couple of months ago for a fractured shoulder/joint replacement, and at the time whose husband was just diagnosed with a tumor in his leg.  I have watched this very stoic woman go from being optimistic, encouraged, supportive to being distraught and burdened by her husbands' pain.  He had radiation for 5 weeks every day then had to stop to get it out of his system before surgery next week.  She says she can see the tumor grow almost daily and her husband is really in agony while being on the strongest dose of morphine he can have.  Last week, her PCP told her he would probably have his leg amputated.  What a burden for this woman who couldn't even comb her own hair a few weeks ago. 
Why am I saying all this?  I just need to be reminded sometimes that my life is good.  And that there are people out there whose life is not so good.  And even if my life is not as good or perfect as I would like, I know God is by my side every step of the way. 
Thankfully this woman is a believer.  If you have a moment, please pray for her and her husband and the doctors who will be doing the surgery.