As publication of my book, What Didn't Kill Me Made Me Stronger: How I Found Hope While Surviving Diabetes, Vision Loss, and Organ Transplant, gets closer, I will be posting excerpts here. They're glimpses into the ever-changing life of someone with diabetic complications. I'll explore subjects like sudden vision loss, deprression, waiting for an organ transplant, rejection, and hope. I'm going to start with a short one. Please leave comments and share with anyone who might relate to this.
Hurry Up and Wait, Wait and Hurry Up
Hurry up and wait. It’s a figure of speech describing what it
feels like to be rushed into moving quickly, usually to satisfy someone else or
a tight schedule, only to be forced to stop.
It’s hard to switch gears at that point.
If the same person who rushed us is the one making us wait, it can cause
resentment. In our culture, hurrying is
good and often expected, but waiting is bad.
Sometimes it’s the other way around.
Wait and hurry up. If you’re
waiting for an organ transplant, time moves in slow motion. It’s probably faster than time moves in
prison. I know for a fact it’s faster
than time moves when you’re in the hospital.
But it’s waiting. It’s not like
waiting in line, when you can see it moving forward and you can tell when it’s
almost your turn. This kind of waiting
is like gazing up at the midnight sky at the millions of stars out there. There’s no telling just how distant it all
is.
Suddenly a shooting star speeds through
the dark sky. It’s much closer than the
other pinpoints of light. It’s much
brighter and it’s moving faster. Your
heart quickens. Now that vast,
barely-moving backdrop of distant stars and galaxies is more in
perspective. None of them are important
anymore. That bright streak of light in
front of you is all that matters.
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