Our Biggest Setbacks Can Illuminate our Greatest Blessings

The picture looks happy, right? For 4 weeks, I have been severely hampered by an upper respiratory infection that has had me in bed for days, depressed, and unable to be the husband, Dad and employee I want to be.

I’ll start by saying I’m incredibly blessed and grateful for my health. Typically, I get ill for 1 day every 1-2 years. But these past few weeks have shut me down. I’ve dropped 12 pounds and feel like a shell of myself.

The first two weeks, I made it by on Nyquil and ibuprofen. I didn’t miss any work, didn’t miss any podcast recordings and tried like I usually do to never let anybody see me bleed. I thought it was looking up, only to get ten times worse, making me bedridden and I finally went to the doc for antibiotics.

Thankfully, while I’m still probably only about 50%, I’ve been able to spend the last several days in Florida with my family. I’m grateful to my wife for taking care of me and putting up with me, and my kids accepting (and loving) diminished, cranky Dad.

You can’t ever take anything for granted. I feel lousy, my gym workouts pale in comparison to what they were, and I hate asking for help or not being able to take care of myself.

My boundless energy is what I’m known for; what I’m good at, and I frankly just don’t have it right now.

But it’s times like this when you are all the more grateful for what you do have, what you can do, and especially the people who unconditionally love and support you.

Carson Heady, reporting live, from the Happiest Place on Earth. I hope to be back in full force soon!

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