Sometimes I think Monday is a bad word....or maybe uvula is...

So while this particular Monday isn't the worst Monday I have ever had, and even though it wasn't amazing I am still thankful and blessed that is was another day with my sweet boys!  I always see posts on Facebook and Twitter about the dreaded Monday and how so many things go wrong, so here is what happened to me on this glorious Monday!

Let's see...for the past 4 days my "hangy downy thing" (the thing in the back of your throat; I was informed today by my 13 year old sister and the nurse at urgent care that its proper name is uvula.) has been really painful and swollen.  I will continue to call it my "hangy downy thing" because every time today I have told people my "uvula is infected" they think that part of my body is somewhere else! haha  Not to get gross or anything but it basically sits on my tongue in the back of my throat hurting..all day and all night long...ugh! Then when my "hangy downy thing" hurts my ear aches and throbs too...just gets better..I know! It became so painful I can't even eat without tears coming to my eyes! So I took a trip to the good ole' urgent care here in Wasilla, Alaska...

The entire waiting room wreaked of cigarettes and alcohol, the man across from me had no teeth, the woman beside me was drinking chocolate milk from a half gallon carton, and the people diagonal from me were on their cell phone discussing why they were in a custody battle.  Those are just a few of the "interesting" things I observed and learned about today in urgent care!  Not to pass judgement, but I am pretty sure several of them are "clients" of my dear husband.  I did say a little prayer for all those there to feel better and that God help them in whatever their situations may be. 

After waiting for over an hour I was finally called back to find out that I indeed have uvulitis! The doctor told me it was a good thing I was there because it was starting to swell, and sometimes they swell up to the size of a plum! A PLUM!!!!  If that were to happen I would have to have a breathing tube..yikes. 

So I picked up my prescription at the pharmacy, got all the way home only to find out they gave me the wrong antibiotics.  After I loaded my child into the car my gas light came on.  Gas is currently $3.96 a gallon. : ) I now have the correct prescription that causes nausea and lots of other joyful things that involve the bathroom! I have to eat every time I take this medicine and guess what makes my "hangy downy thing" and my ear hurt the WORST!?  Yes, it is eating and drinking! haha

While my experience above is spelled out very dramatically, I am very thankful I was able to go to a doctor and be treated for my problem! I am thankful that we live in a place where my biggest problem at the moment is my infected uvula and the price of gas.   I am grateful my problems are not that I don't have clean drinking water, that an earthquake and tsunami destroyed my home and killed loved ones, or that I may get radiation from a nuclear plant.  My husband still has his job and our sweet baby is healthy; right now life is pretty amazing.  My Monday might not have been how I wanted it to be, but it was a blessing that it turned out the way it did. 

As I sit in my bed nauseated from the wonderful antibiotic that is going to hopefully cure my uvulitis I am listening to Laura Story's "Blessings."  Many of my friends on facebook have put links up to this song as there have been so many people with heartache and trials lately.  This is just one song that sticks out right now, but there are so many songs out there that lift me up everyday and let me know God loves me and has a plan for me!  Who knows what God has in store from my trip to urgent care and all of  the people I encountered today.  Regardless of whether your Monday is crappy, you are going through a storm, or nothing is wrong at all; this song makes you thankful for God's blessings no matter how they come! This is the chorus:

                            ‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops

                             What if Your healing comes through tears

                             What if a thousand sleepless nights

                             Are what it takes to know You’re near
                             What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

Laura Story- "Blessings" Video Link

 I will end with this... Lamentations 3:22-23 ( It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.) I also like the way Nichole Nordeman says it too..

                               Your mercies are new every morning

                                So let me wake with the dawn

                                When the music is through or so it seems to be
                                Let me sing a new song, old things gone
                                Every day it's true, You make all Your mercies new

BRING ON TUESDAY!   : )