99 problems

 I have a theory on evangelism.  This is, I think, the best place to explore it.  

The more evangelism I do, the more people tell me they're impacted (it's been happening some lately), the more problems I encounter.  Work is OK praise God.  Family are doing well, cats are great.  But me?  Sick!  Sick!  Sick!  

Tuesday night I developed a horracious (not a word but should be) fever while curled up in bed.  I could literally feel my throat swelling up and it was excruciatingly painful.  I didn't take my temperature but I should have.  I also had severe nasal congestion.  I was very clogged up all night, all the next day.  I left a message (whining) on my aunt's voicemail and she kept remarking how congested I was.  Mom and Dad were pretty aghast when I called them.  

The fun part: enter - migraine.  Yup.  Vomiting with a pounding migraine and excruciating congestion and a very painful sore throat.  Not a good time.  About that time, I took a selfie: 

And sent it to the boss lady with a detailed rundown of my symptoms, apologizing, but I would NOT be in today as I didn't want to get anyone else sick.  We have 2 high risk employees in my department, three.  All with chronic health problems something like what I have could put them in the hospital or worse.  I would never forgive myself.  

I didn't say all that.  

But I think the picture did all the talking.  I took sick leave for today, and I'm off tomorrow, I only work Saturday night so I'll be OK.  

Chief snitch once said, after a migraine, I had told her I was really wishing for some peppermints, that I should call her "next time".  I sent her a message asking for peppermints and no can do.  

So, this morning, I used Walmart delivery.  The store I use is not my actual store, interestingly enough.  They are located fairly close and I haven't had any issues with using them lately.  Once, years ago, before I got hired, in the middle of Covid, my order got left at the wrong house but they fixed it.  

I mainly use "dot com" Walmart for shipping things to family.  Say someone pulls a muscle and I want to send them some Epsom salt.  I can do that with the dot com they will generally get it that day.  I like that, especially if Mom or Dad are sick.  

And I realized, hey, I can do this for myself.  No way I'm going out in public like this.  Even if I felt better I am bound to be contagious.  So I got online, got some fizzy remedies.  I got a "cold and flu" generic (Equate) brand, and another one for just plain headaches.  Sometimes if I'm battling a migraine I'd like to take "something" but I know tablets will make me vomit.  So that's a good idea.  

The fizzy cold and flu stuff is great, I do feel a lot better.  It has the "Chloro" stuff that normally knocks me out but has had the opposite effect today.  

But I've noticed I have more trials of all sorts when I'm going more evangelism and working to keep myself usable to God.  Seeking God and His will does have consequences.  

I am sure the pest would do a deep dive on that but it's just been my personal observation.  

Is it worth it?  Absolutely!  There's a wonderful Bible verse: Joel 2:25 "I will restore to you the years the locust has eaten" and proceeds to list all the horrible locust species.  I read a great Bible study on it once, that the locust can take many forms in our lives, sickness (a big one for me, and also tending to Ron), various trials in life, reaping our consequences of things we've done, etc.  So I may lose beautiful days - so many nice days I've lost to a migraine, all the time spent on the bus riding in extreme upleasantness, but I'm still here and still seeking God's will.  

I managed to drag myself out to the mailbox and found a delivery of many tracts I can use.  To me, that's worth losing a few days.  

That's it for now.