Gratitude # 55

I am grateful to be alive and well on this day. That might seem like I’m grasping at straws at first glance, but I assure you that is not the case. You see, a very important woman who works for the College of Engineering left work yesterday complaining of fatigue. She thought a hot shower and an early bedtime would right her wrong. That was unfortunately not the case. She didn’t show up to work this morning, so they called her to see what happened. The details escape me, but the end result was that she never woke up. They found her dead this morning and suspect it was a heart attack. Women, please be sure to read up on signs and symptoms of heart attacks in women as 70% of women who had heart attacks experienced unusual fatigue up to a month or more in advance of their heart attacks. It’s not necessarily going to be like what you see happening to men.

So today I’m grateful that I woke up this morning, dragged myself out of bed, and went to work. I’m grateful for every moment I’m getting to pay this game we call life.