Pluggers---Part II

It can blow your mind if you really get into it! I'm talking about the many people in life who “keep on plugging” in the face of pain, health problems and life difficulties. I don't think I've ever made a concentrated effort to notice this.

So here goes---I hope you will you decide with me to make the effort to notice, to appreciate it more---and to say so when it is appropriate.

I can start at home, by being thankful for my wife! She has a regular battle with a form of painful arthritis, for which she takes some pretty heavy medications which require regular labs to monitor blood levels and assure no other damage is being caused to her body as a result.

In addition to this, and possibly connected to it, she has migraine headaches which require self-administered shots---very expensive self-administered shots I might add.

Yet, in the face of this, she worked full time at a factory for years while putting herself through nursing school.

Now her feet hit the floor at 5 am to work 12 hour days as an RN at a psychiatric hospital, often a very thankless job. As a psychiatric RN she has gotten punched and kicked in the head no less than 4 times in the past 2 years by psychotic patients.

But her smile always comes back and she keeps doing her job---“Of course,“ she says, “I’m going to have to get better at ducking.”

So here goes my official effort, I’m kicking off a campaign to start being systematically more aware, more thankful. I want to purposefully notice the difficulties of others I see in the workplace, .

What say you? Will you join with me? Do you know someone who overcomes a serious life difficulty, yet they step out and keep on plugging when others may have taken an easier route?