How To Handle Unpleasant Situations When They Develop

How to handle unpleasant situations when they develop is something that everyone and not just salespeople have to deal with at some point in their lives.

Life is over coming problems and the better y0u get at it the better your life will be.

For example:

When I was writing my last post things were going quite well in my life.
However up jumped the devil and things started happening at a torrid pace.

The first thing that happened was my personal physician decided to move to the Wood Lands a nice subdivision of Houston, Texas located about ninety miles southwest of where I live.

This would not be to convenient for my wife and I to go to our regular appointments every three or four months.

However my wife and I were placed with an excellent Doctor by our Medicare maintaince program.

I had an appointment for both of us on March the sixth so I took a day off from work.

Then about six-thirty the evening of the fifth the doctor’s office called and said that my appointment was rescheduled to the twenty-forth of March.

I had already taken the day off so I had to make the best of it.
My truck was also sick so I used the day off to have a compete brake job done on it.

I went back to work on Friday and had a rather uneventful weekend.

Then on Monday evening when I was getting ready for bed my dog Peppy our family dog that is on my link page of my website was acting strange and was sniffing at one of my toes.

I looked at my foot and the toe next to the big toe on my right foot was extremely swollen and bright red like a beet. It had a round knob at the very end about the size of a quarter.

I had to have the very tip including the toe nail amputated about four years ago but had never had any trouble since then with it.

I started all of the self treatment I could do from that night forward.

The doctor’s appointment had been moved up to the twenty-fourth so I decided to wait until then to get professional treatment. (Big Mistake)

I took another day’s vacation for the twenty-fourth and went to the Doctor and had him take a look at my toe.

He set me up with a podiatrist to treat my problem.

My wife and I then went and took our normal blood test that we take each doctor's visit due to our both being type two diabetic patients.

The doctor’s nurse called me back that evening and told me my wife’s test were fine but I had a low blood count and to come back Wednesday for retesting of my blood.

That Wednesday evening after retesting the doctor’s nurse called again and said the blood count was even lower and to have it done again on Monday.

I went to the Podiatrist on Thursday and got the bad news that the infection was in the bone of my toe. I already knew from my previous experience with this problem what had to be done.

She gave me a choice of removing the infected part or removing the entire toe. I opted for the later as this would go past the good piece of bone and protect my foot from the infection that was growing in the end of my toe.

She checked her schedule to see if she could do it right then or if Friday morning would be better. There was an another appointment coming in so she set me up for an early Friday morning appointment.

Friday morning I showed up on time and had the toe removed. I then began bleeding like a stuck pig. It took two tries of bandaging the wound in order to get the blood flow to stop.

I was concerned with the lost blood due to having this other problem of low blood count. The nurse had told me the low blood count issue was serious enough that I might have to have a blood transfusion on Monday if my blood count was to go any lower.

The blood problem may actually be a greater problem than the toe problem.

To cure the toe I only have finish the antibiotics and get to where I can walk again comfortably.

I have gone online to see if I could figure out what the problem is.

It turns out a lot of older people such as myself have this problem.

The good news is there are quite a few prescriptions to deal with this problem that were not available a few years ago. Way back when you just developed acute leukemia and that was the end of it.

With this knowledge I am confident I will survive even if it means getting a bone morrow transplant are some other drastic treatment.

As you have seen from all of my writing I believe in staying ahead of my problems and issues.

What I have learned from all of this (so far) is the fact that if you are diabetic take a close look at your feet every night. Use a mirror so you can see the bottoms and take proper care of your feet and wear well fitting shoes.

The blood thing was probably an inherited condition but as I was an orphan I have no family history to fall back on.

I mainly wrote this post to let my readers know that you have to stay on the alert for what ever life deals you and stay optimistic no matter what.

No matter what comes up, you can deal with it as long as you are proactive about it.

Flash things are looking up. Monday when I went back to have the next blood test, my blood count was back to normal. (It had to be the infection that was causing the problems.)

I then went back to my podiatrist and she had received the results from the culture sample she had sent in from my toe infection. She said it showed that I had a drug resistant bacterial infection.

You know what I was thinking when I received this little bit of news.
(That’s just great! Right?)

Well the doctor said it was not as bad as it sounds as they now have some new antibiotics to deal with this issue.

It does seem to be working I might add so I am once again optimistic.

As I was saying what ever life deals you just deal with it with confidence and you will make it.

Thank you,

Billy J Gibson

http://www.thesellingfool.com/
Thesellingfoolbjg@yahoo.com