Count it All Joy

Wow, the response from this blog has blown me away, I have heard great stories from different people, I have read encouraging comments and just become even more comfortable with talking about my disease.

But I will give an update on my life as the moment.

So I finally finished second year, passed with mostly B's, which totally surprised me. But wow, does it feel good to be done school. I feel like I can finally breathe a little bit and then this summer is going to be awesome! I am so excited for it--my best friend is coming home and we are working at camp together, I am going on a trip of a life time as of next week. I would honestly really like to say things are looking up, however EVERY time I have said that lately something seems to crash and burn within 24 hours.

Let me tell you about my trip down to Abbotsford a few days ago... So I was talking to a friend the day before and they were asking me how I was doing, I said great! School was done, I was catching up with people, going to Abbotsford and I was doing really good. I had been planning on driving down to Abbotsford the next day and surprising my family by showing up at their school a day early. I left at 7:00 that morning.

7:10--I got to the major intersection by the casino and remembered I forgot my camera under my bed so I quickly turned around and grabbed it. Phew, I thought to myself- that would've been bad to forget something like that. I looked around my room for what seemed like the 10th time that morning and nope, nothing forgot. Then left again.

8:00-- OH CRAP!! At this point I was 20mins from Quesnel and realized that I forgot my medications in the fridge at home. I quickly called my uncle to see if it was possible for him to mail them to my parents house that day. He said yes, and I continued to drive...3 messages and a voicemail later from my uncle again saying that it wasn't possible to mail them. And then another hour waiting to hear from my MS nurse to see if anything was possible than besides driving all the way back home.

9:00-- After, possibly shedding a few tears and feeling quite ticked again, I turned around and for the 2nd time that day driving my LEAST favorite part of the drive going to go pick up my medications.

10:30-- Finally, on the road....AGAIN! Oh well, what else could go wrong, she said to herself with a bit of a laugh...oh, if only she knew...haha

Williams Lake: As I drove through I thought to myself, if only nothing had gone wrong I would be in  Abbotsford by now. Oh well.

2:00-- 20km outside of Williams Lake engine light goes on. This then gives me flashbacks to when I was about 14 years old and we were on a road trip and something happened to our van and we were stuck for hours outside of 100 Mile House. I can't remember why, but we did. So I really didn't need that happen again. So I called my uncle, checked my owners manual and decided to turn around...yet again. This time with even more tears and becoming even more ticked.

2:30-- Found the Toyota dealer, went in and asked if someone could come look at my car... still trying to hold myself together the guy tells me that he probably won't be able to do anything for me until later this afternoon. Maybe it was the look on my face, trying to really hold back the tears and make sure my voice didn't quiver. But he left and came back 5 minutes later and said that someone would come check it out.

3:00-- They come back with my car and tell my the catalytic converter should be replaced, it is losing efficiency. But again, not something I wanted to hear--especially since I didn't even know what that was. And then he told me the price of a new one and fixing it. But by 3:30 I was on the road again and promised myself there was no stopping until Cache Creek.  

6:00-- Cache Creek, time to gas up and then I thought 'Really, one more thing could go wrong today..' So I quickly hopped over to Kal Tire and asked them to torque my tires (I got them changed a few weeks ago).

8:30-- Finally arrived at my parents house. They were delightfully surprised and I was DEAD, tired, back was sore and everything else hurt.

Some lessons learned for the day... I was quickly reminded of one of my favorite verses of the year. James 1:2-3 "Count it all JOY when faced with trials of many kinds..." That was one thing that I kept coming back to that day and I have found that verse many many times this past year.


However, now it is officially summer for me and next week I will be leaving for a trip of a life time.. keep updated and I will let you know eventually what it is. I am stoked.

Anyways, I hope you are having a great day!

Kate