{"id":669,"date":"2009-10-19T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2009-10-19T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:33:56","slug":"she-made-me-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"She Made Me Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not much of a crier. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had my moments and I often \u00e2\u20ac\u0153control\u00e2\u20ac\u009d those times but do my best not to cry in front of others. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use crying as a means of trying to get my way.\u00c2\u00a0 I try to resolve issues by looking at a situation as a problem to be solved instead of crying about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, however, a good cry actually relieves the pressures of the day but those episodes are few and far between – even now. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Friday I got so emotional about something that someone made me cry. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was not angry at her.\u00c2\u00a0 She did not do me wrong. She simply walked into my room at noon while I was receiving transfusion treatment as an outpatient at the cancer center. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You see, my sister, Vicki, surprised me and flew in for the weekend to visit.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It had been over three months since I saw her.\u00c2\u00a0 The last time she was here I was so sick I could not get out of bed as I had a very serious infection that was eating away at my body.\u00c2\u00a0 I also had a bad case of pneumonia.\u00c2\u00a0 The prognosis for my recuperation was not good and she was there to support me and my son. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My son told me he had something to do Friday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 I had no idea it was to pick my sister up at the airport. \u00c2\u00a0 When she walked in behind him I gasped and started crying.\u00c2\u00a0 We talk each day and I had just told her the evening before that I hoped she had a good day at school tomorrow. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vicki and I talked all the rest of the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 My hours of transfusions turned into – what seemed – minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Those of you who know me are well aware that I talk a great deal. My sister has that same talent. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a non stop talking marathon.\u00c2\u00a0 Her visit energized me and, though I had some numbers that were continuously dropping dangerously low, my energy seemed to stay with me – at least from the neck up. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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She left to go back home yesterday and I was so glad she surprised me.\u00c2\u00a0 Being so far away from home makes me appreciate being able to talk to face to face to family and friends even more. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/em><\/strong> is that you have reasons for crying happy tears often and that you are able to use crying as a positive form of stress relief whenever you need to.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about you, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not much of a crier. \u00c2\u00a0 Oh, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had my moments and I often \u00e2\u20ac\u0153control\u00e2\u20ac\u009d those times but do my best not to cry in front of others. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use crying as a means of trying to get my way.\u00c2\u00a0 I try to resolve issues by looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends-gatherings","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}