When you get a minor illness, where do you seek healing?
While I was unemployed several years ago, I got ill with an upper respiratory infection. It was the first time in my adult life that I recovered the quickest from this type of infection.
Then, months later, after I had resumed working full time and enrolled at seminary with a nine-hour credit load, I contracted another upper respiratory infection that lasted for months, even with multiple rounds of antibiotics.
During this time, my blood pressure also skyrocketed, prompting my primary doctor to ask me if he needed to write me a prescription to take a vacation because he felt I was under too much pressure to get well. He literally stated, “This isn’t you.”
I thanked him, but told him I’d drop one of my classes to see if that made a difference. This did ultimately help me kick the respiratory infection and reduce, but not eliminate, the blood pressure medication.
Minor illnesses are one thing, but where do we turn when something life threatening takes hold of us?
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