You in Christ is enough

My Story

I will not start my story from the beginning, but I will say I was born in a two parent, lower-middle-class family. My father was a minister and he worked a technical job and my mom worked on and off in the restaurant business. I grew up pretty normal except for a couple of bumps and bruises. My real story begins in the Summer of 2017 when I graduated from college. I thought everything was going my way. I was later promoted to Supervisor over the Customer Service Center at my job. Something I had been working on and praying for years. I was on cloud nine because all my dreams were coming true. All my sacrifices had paid off and the sky was the limit for me. 

Life Changes

I became Supervisor over Customer Service in December of 2018. I would return in the new year in my role as Supervisor. At the beginning of 2019 I attended a manager’s meeting where I was told the management would receive a significant pay raise. I would be making more money than I had ever earned. I was so excited about my life and where it was going. Nothing was holding me back. But we do know that God had other plans for me. Oh, did I mention that I also had a little business I was running on the side. I was selling jewelry on the reseller’s apps. My sales from the side business were picking up. 

My Journey 

I started to notice while at the Manager’s meeting out of town my body just wasn’t feeling quite right. By the time I returned home and was working on my side business, my body was in full-blown rebellion against me. I remember joking with the postal clerk that after I dropped off these packages I was going to the emergency room. I could barely breathe, but still, I was working on the business. I went to the emergency room later that day and was brushed off by the staff as nothing wrong. I returned to my daily life. Each day it became laborious to breathe until one night I couldn’t sleep all night because of breathing difficulties. The next morning I went to another hospital’s emergency room. 

Unexpected News

I was told at the hospital’s emergency room that nothing was wrong with me. Again, I’m hearing the same diagnosis. I started to think maybe it was all in my head. Surely two hospitals can’t be wrong. They did give me a referral to a heart specialist doctor just to cover themselves because I had a history and a family history of heart disease. I called the specialist’s office and made an appointment. I went home and continued my life as normal. My situation did not get better so on the day I was scheduled for an echocardiogram I decided I would go to the emergency room after. I strained up because by that time I was in a lot of pain. I went immediately to the emergency room after the echocardiogram. The doctor on staff entered the room and said the same words I had heard for several weeks now. There is nothing wrong with you. He was getting ready to discharge me when he noticed I had taken an echocardiogram. He told me to hold on while he checked my charts. 

The News

I wasn’t expecting the news the doctor delivered that day. My heart was functioning at less than 20%. I had no idea what was in store for me. I thought it could be repaired with a simple pill or worst case scenario a short stay in the hospital. When I went to my scheduled appointment with the heart specialist doctor. I was told I needed a heart transplant. I was shattered and broken. I had no idea what to expect. 

pt. 2 

coming soon

Life after the Storm

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