Taking Life One Step At A Time

Ron and I are going through some health issues that we never saw coming.  After being diagnosed with diabetes in 2002, having serious business difficulties  from 200-2010, being diagnosed with ALS in 2015, we thought our difficulties were behind us.  Not so.  Several weeks ago Ron was diagnosed with Stage 2 bladder cancer, so we now have another battle to fight.  As we've done with all difficulties in the past, our approach is to take one day at a time.

I call it "peeling away the layers of an onion."  It's daunting to think about the future if you think about all the obstacles.  My idea is to take each day, each issue as it comes, and not think too much about all the things you are going to go though.  First, we had to get all our doctors on board, consult with them, and determine a course of action.  Next, we had to set up appointments.  Then, we had to take each day and deal with whatever happens.  Each day,  peeling each layer of the onion, gets us closer to the end of treatment.  We are just getting started, and I will not write much about the process, but I just wanted to talk about my feeling that taking things step by step keeps you from getting overwhelmed.

Many years ago Ron had a business problem that was extremely complex, and I mentioned to him at the time that taking each step to completion before going on to the next was the best way to approach the problem.  It worked.  He took it one step at a time, and the project was completed and things were fine.  I'm hoping that approach will work for him now.  We're just getting started on this difficult road, but one step at a time is our approach to getting to the finish line.