Being patient is the key to success

For me, patience is when I think of the time when I got Lyme disease and how difficult it was for me. Lyme disease made me sleepy, anxious, achy, and just a person no one wanted to me, but I had to take medicine that worked after 21 days you take it or 3 weeks which taught me how to be patient. When I heard this I thought it would be miserable but then I didn’t think about it and went about the days doing my normal routine to the best I could. By doing the daily activities I would normally do like playing soccer eating dinner with my family waking up at a reasonable time going to school. But the only reason I found out I had Lyme disease is because my right knee swelled up so much I couldn’t bend it.

So I went to the hospital that day and got my blood tested and drained my knee of all the fluid that had built up in my knee. That day took a lot of time like watching golf it was boring. When being at a hospital already sucks enough think about having to be patient while being there. I was in the hospital for over 6 hours that day till 8 pm which made me use a lot of patience that day I was really tired, but I had to keep going until I could go home no matter what was happening so I went along to the day. When I got home I was tired of getting pricked with needles and having to go different places and do different things so when I got home I ate dinner and then went to bed at my normal time. I’m going to be talking about Lyme disease and how patience saved my life kinda. When being in a hospital you can get anxious from being in there a long time. Later that day, I tried to stay calm and get it over with that was difficult for me because I was already there for a long time trying to complain or give an attitude about anything. Just listening to everyone else and doing my own thing while also doing what the doctors told me to do. When I went home I had to go back the next day to get a range of motion back into my knee which also took a while, but with all of that, I did my best to stay calm about the situation and move on in my life. This all happened because of a stupid bug called a deer tick and now I will forever have Lyme disease, but not always feel it.

Just be patient. And how going to the hospital is awful and tiring, but I still had patience about something because I wanted to get it fixed for the time being. Lyme disease changed my life by not being able to do everything I wanted to do which annoyed me I thought I was going to be able to keep my patience but I did and persevered through. But for me, it was more than that because it impeded my life and made my life difficult for the time being so I became more patient. Lyme disease is awful for me, but when I do get it will come and go it is not on a schedule like everything else is so if it does come back be patient with it.

“Being patient” by quinn.anya is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.