TODAY I CHOOSE JOY - 27 Mar 2020 - I have Shingles on my head, face, and eye. It began on 21 Feb 2020. Five weeks that feel like five months. I have spent most of those five weeks in bed, only going out for Doctor appointments. The nerve pain from Shingles is constant and it can vary in intensity from one moment, and/or one day, to the next. No one can comprehend what it feels like until you have it. And I am learning that more people have it for months or years than those who heal right away. It depends a lot on your age and general health at the time you get it. I am trying to reconcile myself to this new normal. I can be sad. I can be angry. I can curl up in bed and embrace a victim mentality. Or I can choose - to be happy, to be faithful, to be cheerful, to be as active (with some limits) as I hope to be. Some days I have to dig deep to be positive but I have found if I will simply look out my window and see what is happening outside my four walls, I can find the courage to choose joy.
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