March last year.
Event #1: I’m in the toilet, just zipped up and ready to leave. Next memory: I’m on the floor, my body is thrashing about. My head is bashing against the toilet and then the wall, toilet, then wall. I put my hands up to stop my head bouncing around. Standing up… what the hell just happened?
Event #2: The phone call. “Hi Mat, your CT scan results are in.. we’re wondering if you could come in as soon as you are available to discuss your results?”
Event #3: “Matthew, we’ve found an anomaly in your brain. There’s four possibilities : It could be a tumour, Multiple Sclerosis, the remnants of a stroke.. or nothing.”
It’s not something you want to hear. My girlfriend of three weeks.. poor girl!.. held me as I cried. It’s a shock to the system, and before it happens you wonder how you’ll react.
Looking back I can’t believe it, but within a day I had accepted it and was ready to hear anything. Death is a reality. There was only a small chance that the anomaly could mean this worst of news but I was forced to face it.
Fortunately, a few months later I was finally declared healthy.
I needed a wake-up call and I got one. Most people’s wake-up calls come through the death of someone close to them or a near-death experience.
That series of events can be thanked for the fact I launched my business recently(www.newtonclothiers.com).
If you’re unhappy in your current situation, do something about it. Don’t wait. For as they say, the wake-up call may never come.
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