My New Life

Can you imagine, a man as old as I writing about his "new life" in this article.

That is exactly how I feel today almost 3 years from the day that I almost died on December 31, 2014/January 1, 2015. I truly believe that my life has completely changed since that time. Hopefully, into a much better one.

You might find my comment somewhat strange but to me it is not. My reason for making this remark is rather simple. Compared with what I was experiencing for so long before, my life is so different today.

As I am sure that you remember, if you have been reading my articles on here since I recovered, because of the horrific illness that I was suffering, I was being examined and treated by so many doctors and other medical and home care people who helped me get better.  I will always be grateful to them since they treated me so positively!

I am not going to go into great detail once again about what my treatments were and what they did to make me feel so good now. All you need to do, dear reader, if you want to know about that, is to do some searching on my articles which I published previously to gain that knowledge. Moreover, I just do not want to keep repeating it because part of what I am doing now is being so pleased to have recovered so well from this horrible illness. I have not recovered 100%, and never will, but I certainly have done a lot better than many of the people with this illness who have not been as fortunate as I.

I needed to write this article for other personal reasons.  No, I am not going to write now about matters going on in this geographic area or elsewhere as I do in my regular articles on here. Instead I felt a need to write an article about myself personally about how I am feeling about my life now and what I am hoping to do in the future. Again, this could help others who are living in a similar position to mine.

Sure, it is very close to 3 years from when this all started. However, from my perspective, my life only became better several months ago when effectively I took it back from near death.

What do I mean? Well, it is rather simple. I am not treated any longer by any of the medical specialists who made sure that my recovery went as well as it did nor by the people who came to my house so often to treat me and look after me. They did their jobs so well already in helping me come back to normalcy that there was no need for them to keep on seeing me after the middle of this year. Of course, if there ever is an issue in the future, they have let me know that all that I need to do is give them a quick phone call to set up a session to deal with my problem.  Since the summer this year, I have not had to have any care any longer from any of these people. While I was so pleased about that, I have to tell you that I was upset when it all came to an end even though I was so much better. I am forever grateful because of their efforts.

Everything that I do now has changed quite a bit from how I lived before. I cannot afford to live a poor life but must look after myself in the most positive manner I can to keep my health up. That means that I am very careful in what I eat and how much I eat. I have to make sure that I exercise properly and enough times to make sure that I am healthy. If I do have a problem as everyone does in life, I have to try and solve it as quickly as I possibly can and in a manner that is a positive one for me but does not cause significant difficulties for the person on the other side, if possible. In passing, I have been very successful in handling a number of very negative matters with solutions that are advantageous to me and my family and still deal now with those people on the other side who agreed with my solutions.

At least for myself, I am acting in a much different way compared with how I lived before. Perhaps all the number of years of my age are part of the reason for it but I think my illness caused a good part of how I am looking at life now. Believe it or not, I rarely look at what my "future" will be. The main reason clearly is because I do not know how many more years I will have on this Earth. I always feel so happy when I wake up in the morning after a good night's sleep.  It means that I will be going through another great day in the world.

I am hoping that I will be around for a good many years and looking for ways that I can do so. However, my prime purpose in living now is to make sure that each of my family members is experiencing a successful time today in dealing with their concerns and then being assisted in ensuring that his/her life will be fantastic in the future when I am no longer around.

Just to repeat the obvious, my years of "rebirth" have made my wife, Marsha, an even better person.  She looked after me then and is looking after me now so very well. The reality is that she is just a phenomenal woman who has improved her life unbelievably higher even more after I became so ill.  As for my children, well, I am not going to talk a lot now about them on here. There is no need for me to do that since you should know so much about them after reading my articles.

I really am a different person now.  I just do not have the same needs that I had in the past. I have new ones and, I believe, important ones and expect to achieve resolution of these matters as quickly as possible. I just feel that I do not have the alternative to wait around before reaching a satisfactory conclusion. Those people that I deal with understand that quite well I am certain because they are dealt with quite strongly if they do not act properly and in time.

Will I help others with their issues and if so how? I believe that I will. However there are still matters for which I need resolution if I am to do so. While I want to do so in the best possible way I can, I don't really have an answer for this. Again my view is that something significant will happen in an unexpected way. I will have a role to play in that matter whatever it happens to be. What I mean about "significant," does NOT mean that it is only an issue that is important for the community around me. Rather, it may well deal with an issue that is a concern of one person only whom I meet. My role will simply be for trying to help out to resolve a problem for which I become involved.

I do expect that I have a different life to lead now with a significant part of it to be involved more with others in helping them with what they are experiencing. That is why my life was saved so well. Not just for myself or my family with our issues, but for whatever else happens in the future for which I am to be chosen.