Grasping for the Wind

Ulcers and New Dreams

Well, it was actually quite fortunate that I was unable to join my friends in Atlanta two weekends ago. I didn't know it yet (it would eventually take two weeks, a trip to the ER and the doctor's office to find out) but I had developed an ulcer. This means that every morning for two weeks, I woke up, threw up about five or six times, and felt like I had been hit by a train. I couldn't eat or even keep water down. I became severely dehydrated and ended up in the hospital ER. The doctor gave me anti-throwing up medicine and gave me an IV to rehydrate me. Two days later, the medicine wasn't working and I was throwing up again. I finally get in to see a doctor and she tells me I am getting an ulcer.

But the lord had a plan, I have been wanting to give up teaching for some time now, and now I have medical reason to do so. (The stress of the job is what led to getting the ulcer, which I understand, is a bacterial infection.) So tomorrow I will be giving my two weeks notice to the school. I'm glad because I have come to despise teaching and here in Brevard County we have a new law that says the students must be given 90 minutes of reading instruction per day in ever grade. I was teaching 4 grades. (My fifth grade had two classes so I was teaching 5 of seven periods.) So there wouldn't be enough time in the day to fulfill the mandate.

Even better, I was offered a job over the weekend with a great company as a management trainee. (I don't want ot mention the name of the company because we are still working out the details.) It has been a dream of mine to work for this company for some time, and here it is at the most perfect time. God is good isn't he?

HE even works ulcers so that dreams can be fulfilled. Strange huh?

Posted by John on September 5, 2005 10:56 AM | Posted to Personal Journal
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