It’s been a really challenging week. I’m being challenged with my beliefs of the glass half full. One of my friends, age 74, came home after driving himself, and crashed into every wall in the house. He grumbled at me and went into his bedroom. I tried very hard to get him in there without hurting himself but I think his evil twin came out and all he could do was yell, just leave me alone, I need to sleep.
Being the “I follow request to a T” kind of person, I left him alone. He would come out of his room and crash his way to the bathroom, slam the door, because of course I jumped up to try and help, in my face, and threw up. Then he would crash back to his room and go back to sleep. This went on for about 4 hours. What do you do when someone yells, “NO, DON’T CALL 911, I’LL BE FINE.” You don’t listen after four hours.
Needless to say, we had every emergency vehicle in the driveway. Which, stepping aside for a minute, I’m not too happy with him because he picked that day to get sick. A bunch of us had gone out the night before and we were all suffering from morning after “what the heck was I thinking”. That’s why I was at his house, we all slept over. I had no make-up, no change of clothes, no shower. I’ll stop there you must have gotten the picture by now.
Back to the driveway. Every gorgeous man in the world got out of those vehicles. It must be a pre-requisite to look like that when you join the fire department. Sad for me, they rushed in and asked how I was feeling. Not me, him. Off to the hospital. After hours of waiting and testing in the emergency, he was admitted to the stroke ward. He had two strokes, and they found out he had a hole in his heart. (one out of every five people have this condition and the only way you can know is by having a stroke, unless you ask the doctor for a special test.)
Three days later they released him and I took him home. He has to give himself shots in his stomach daily and take a bunch of medication. He must take his blood pressure medicine which he was not doing. Please people, take your BP medicine.
So the half/full, Yin/Yang of this situation has to be that nothing was damaged and he found out he has this condition. Thank God he is still around to talk about it.
A glass of Yin and Yang 
