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3:50 pm Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Trying times when sick

By Staff
Jonathan Willis
The past three weeks have been some of the most difficult times of my life as I have undergone a constant barrage of endless headaches that has just led to one sickness or another.
I have been literally straight from one doctor office to another so if things start to seem a little like maybe I am a little medicated; I am.
I have been poked at, prodded and poked at again.
One good day would just be set aside by a bad day.
I never realized how quickly productive work days could just be gone in the blink of an eye.
Before I even knew it I would sleep entire days away. I couldn't imagine how fast time could go by.
But there it was. Before my eyes. Time was wasting away.
Work was getting away from me. My little boy all of a sudden was getting big.
Three days turned into three weeks.
I know Jason had to be wondering if I was going to come back.
But My wife Mandi is the trooper.
She is the one who has to listen to all the moaning and groaning and complaining. See, I may not be the world's easiest patient.
I like to be babied on when I am sick and she has done that for me.

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