Don't take life to serious. Serious health scare and reality check

This crazy life we live, where we are more worried about our jobs than our life. Recently, I was more worried about loosing my job than I was my health. I was sick and I knew it. I just wanted to wait till my weekend before going to see the Doctor as I had already missed a few days for being sick and didn't want to risk loosing my job.

After spending some time in the hospital last week, I went to work knowing I shouldn't. it was a terrible day and I was not doing to great. I am newly diagnosed with type two diabetes and don't know much about it yet, and I had a skin abscess/infection on my groin. Little did I know that diabetes and infections feed off of each other. After the long miserable and very painful day at work, I came home thinking that I only had one more day left till I could go back to the hospital without risking my job. I knew my infected area had grown more painful during the day, but now could finely examine it. Upon examination, I knew I was in trouble. It had grown and was not looking or feeling good in anyway. I knew I needed to go to the ER yet still had to fight myself as I was worried about loosing my job. My Job has a very strict attendance policy and you can't get disability till six months after employment (that's in less than a week btw). After some hard thinking, it dawned on me that I can't work if I'm dead. So the real question should be how fast I can get to the hospital.


I hopped in my truck and went to the ER on Sunday at 12:20AM. Once there and checked in, the doctors decided it was more than they could do in the ER, they called multiple doctors in to decide what could and needed to be done. Due to the infection, my blood sugar was at 370. Far cray from the between 90 and 120 it should be. The infection was huge and in a very sensitive and dangerous location. I had emergency surgery at 6:00 AM and spent the following two days in the hospital only getting out today. Am I sure I will get to keep my job, no! But what I really find strange is that these days, we make our jobs more of a priority than so many other more important things. Our realities are so screwed up. I could have died, all because I was worried about loosing my job...

Stay healthy everyone. Enjoy life, spend time with your families, have fun with your hobbies, and live!