Sometimes life is a roller-coaster, and you just have to throw up your hands and go with it. The week that I ran faithfully I had developed a mild cough. Nothing serious, and nothing to hinder me from running. Last week, however, the mild cough turned into a hacking, doubled-over, make-my-abs-and-my-head-hurt cough. I also developed some lovely asthmatic wheezing to go along with it. My poor husband has had to live/sleep with this cough for over a week now. I can't seem to shake it!

I definitely didn't feel like I could safely run last week. My inhaler ran out of juice long ago, and I didn't want to provoke an asthma attack by running with this smoker's cough. I finally got another inhaler this weekend, but I'm not sure what I should do. Rest and get rid of this cough? Or tough it out and start running again before I'm 100%? We'll see. I have less work ours this week, so maybe I'll do some walking and see how that goes.

On Monday, September 17th I called my eye doctor begging for a same-day appointment. My contacts supply had been running dangerously low, but I hadn't had a day off of work in quite some time. I finally had Monday off, and they had an opening at 11:15am. I booked it to Fresno and went to my eye appointment. Lo and behold, my sister went into labor that same day (in Fresno) and had her baby that evening! Lindsay had wanted me to be in the room for her second childbirth experience. Since I got my job, we had both been stressing about what I would do when the baby came. If it happened during the day, would I be working? If it happened at night and I worked the next day, would I be able to find someone to cover my shift? Would I get to Fresno in time? How would I get there? (Mind you, Joe and I only had one car up until two weeks ago) What providence that the baby was born that day!

Unfortunately for me, labor went so quickly that Lindsay delivered the beautiful baby girl while my mom and I were checking in to the maternity ward for our back-stage passes. Even though I didn't make it into the room for the birth, I was able to see her and hold her when she was only a couple hours old. Both mom and baby were amazing and healthy!

God worked it out so perfectly. Joe and I bought a car. I was already in Fresno for an eye appointment. I didn't have work till later in the day on Tuesday. I still can't get over how everything worked out! He provides for our needs!

Emma Psalm Bogart