There has been a lot of comment about the 8 month wait for my Mustang and
how bad it was. I was just given a very sad lesson in perspective. My employer,
who is also one of my oldest friends, lost his youngest son to complications from
leukemia last night. He was only 16. Three weeks ago he was seemingly healthy
and was playing high-school basketball.
It makes a wait for a new car, no matter how long, very unimportant.

 

Man, that's too bad. :mellow: It does put things into perspective.

But, on the flip side, it says a lot about this country that we have the freedom and easy life to where we CAN complain about such trivial things.

I never take anything for granted, and neither should anybody else.

 

Boy isn't that the truth. So sorry to hear that. Cars are just metal & plastic.....My sympathy to the family.

 

Thats a shame and I am sorry for the family and friends, the loss has to be unfathomable.

But I do not think that has anything to do with people waiting for a car. I doubt very much the folks anxiously waiting for their new car would ever let such a thing interfere with their love for family and friends.

There are so many stresses in life that we often agonize over the more frivalous ones because the big ones are just too much. Does not mean they have lost all perspective in life and are heartless unfeeling creatures who live a life void of personal pains and tragedies.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, just think it's not really apropriate to compare the two, one a true tragedy and they other just light hearted complaints.

 

Well I think what he was saying is that it puts things in perspective - at one moment, what can be the BIGGEST most important thing in your world, can suddenly NOT be when the big L-I-F-E comes a'calling and reminds you about something SERIOUS.....

I have lost two people quite close to me over the past 14th months and I do NOT look at life and things the same since....


I feel ya, Packard......

 

I lost a cousin (he was 17 at the time) and my father (in 2000, the year i graduated from HS) to leukemia. Fortunately for me, I hope, they were completely unrelated.

I'm sure my dad would have loved to drive this car.

 

I hear ya bud... I suffer myself with type 1 diabetes and a good percentage of the time I feel like C--P. Diabetes causes major mood swings besides many other horrible things. For me only when my sugars levels are running good which isn't very often can I really enjoy the everyday things in life such as my new car, a vacation, hagging out with friends etc..... When you have a chronic condition that is life threatening you generally look at life in a different perspective. When I get in my new car unlike most of you it sometimes is meaningless cause I don't feel well. So I do appreciate and enjoy it even more when I am feeling well. My point is your health and well being are far more important then any set of wheels or any material things for that matter. God Bless!

 

Sharkstang,

My wife has lived with type 1 for over 30 years (she is now 37). Believe me, I can understand what you are dealing with, she goes through the highs and lows. She started using the insulin pump and it has leveled her off pretty well. Dont know if you have one, but you should consider speaking to your dr about it. She is also a licensed Dietitian so she follows a pretty strick diet. You want more info or advice PM me and I will get her to email you.

Good luck

Sam

 

Yep - my father-in-law has had CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia) since 1991 and is still chugging along. And he certainly enjoys every day.


An excellent example of perspective -

 

Sam, Thanks for your concern. I am on the 30 year plan myself now being 39. I looked into the pump a few years ago when I had health insurance which I no longer have "cause of the diabetes" but I did not feel comfortable about walking around with it 24/7. I chose to go on the multi injects (4-5) per day instead being I don't really mind them other then the bruising. I am familiar with the carb counting and overall do pretty good but I really don't feel well mentally and physically unless my sugars are dead on the money. I am very sensetive. There are many positive things happening in diabetes cure research which I follow all the time and though life guarantees nothing but bills and dealth I believe there will be much better treatment options/cure within the next decade. Tell your wife god bless her that they just performed an encapsultated islet transplant last week and the paitent is not taking rejection drugs and appears to be recovering well...

 

On a serious note here (something I rarely do)-
We are burying a friend of mine today who was
killed in a traffic accident. Life is just so precious.
I try to smile more often now and I feel the key
is to treat people how you want to be treated.

Cliche I know but true none the less.

I heard Louie Armstrongs "What a wonderful world" yesterday
and I cant tell you how uplifting it was to my spirit.

Be thankful for all that you have and let everyone know how much they are appreciated.

On that note today is my youngest Son's birthday. He turned eleven.

Guess what his name is....

PATRICK

 

Thats's awesome! Happy B-day to him.