I don’t normally fail on day two of a challenge. Especially when I gave the challenge to myself. I did all kinds of things to make sure I not only rocked this one but I had fun and it was as easy as it could be.
Inspirational wall? Yup!
Goal Pants? Yup!
Groceries bought? Yup!
Food cooked a day in advance so I wasn’t running around crazy before work? Yup!
Calendar put on wall for easy visual tracking? Yup!
Lose It! and Runtastic App brought up to date and actually used? Yup!
Goal written out and taped to wall so I can remember why I’m doing this? Yup!
See? See how organized I was?!
Thing is, you can’t plan for everything no matter how hard you try, and sometimes things happen you weren’t even aware you had to plan for…more importantly, brace for.
It was a bad night at work today. It started off fine, like any other Friday evening shift. I was having a good time (I find my job fun), was mentally planning for errands I had to do after work, thinking about all kinds of random happy things when a sound I absolutely dread occurred.
The emergency alarm.
Crap.
Usually the emergency alarm turns out to be a false alarm or a situation I can at least deal with.
Tonight…not so much.
All those years I have been keeping my First Aid/CPR up to date, all those scenarios I am trained for, well, for the first time ever I had to utilize those skills, had to actually do what I had been taught in all those classes.
You know what I learned? Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, nothing works. 😦
I watched someone die tonight. While I was working on her she just…went away…I can’t get over how she was there and then she wasn’t…
Paramedics and firemen came, they worked on her also, they tried so hard but she was gone.
The rest of my night was spent doing my normal work stuff and handling all the things that go along with the death of a resident.
So you see, extenuating circumstances, they can mess with the best made plans, and ya know what, right now, I don’t even care that I messed up my eating for the day because I got reminded that there are things so so so much more important than the stupid, self involved, whiny crap I talk about on a daily basis.
After work I had to hit up the grocery store, besides what was on my list I bought a Chinese Almond Bun and a Lindt chocolate bar. Bad decision? Yes. Right way to deal with how I was feeling? No. Right now do I care that I totally blew my eating plan on day 2 of my challenge? No, cause ya know what, not everyday I watch someone die and frankly, not so sure I know how to deal with this.
All I can do is give myself time, and call my mom (which fyi, I will soooo be doing tomorrow! Would have done tonight except for stupid time zones that meant she was sleeping by the time I got home)…I have this mentality that my mom can fix anything, I know there isn’t anything in this situation she can fix but I also know I’ll feel better getting to hear her voice, hers and my dads.
So for now I have a sore stomach from the chocolate, I have teary eyes and I have the overwhelming urge to go to sleep and escape thinking about what happened today.
Tomorrow will be better, right?
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
Hey love! I am oh so sorry that your had to go through something traumatic like that. That’s just awful. And I totally agree with you, and would have done the same. Life is too short to be so hard on yourself. Today is a new day. Do the best you can. Enjoy it! Cut yourself some slack. Laugh. Have fun. Take care of yourself. That’s the best we got!
Hi Dacia, how ya doing? Thanks so much for the support, it’s been a weird couple days dealing with what happened. I really appreciate the comment. 🙂