Fighting three battles

Okay, I got to meet my old friend for thanksgiving and finish my Christmas shopping.  Then this past Saturday I went back to work. Normal day, but my life would soon change real quickly.  As I was laying down the butyl, I was just laying it flat on the drum to keep it tight. As I hit cycle button my hand for some reason could not get off  it went between the drum and the murphy roller.  Pain was the least of my worries.  My first reaction was I'm going to die on this machine and that's not the way to go.  I went into shock and I don't remember too much from there.  Woke up in the dispensary and was wondering where I was at.  They later take me to St. Francis hospital  in Topeka where they took me into the emergency room pump me fool of drugs, took x-rays and tried to get me comfortable.   I thought what is wrong with me.

Later into the night the doctor had taken some blood work and come to fine out I have Type 2 diabetes.  Great as if my night couldn't get any worse.  There was some good news the left hand (the non dominant) was not broken, but it is painfully sore.  I was later release from the hospital taken back the dispensary and later on I eventually went home.

Right now, I am fighting three battles in my life.  One to try to keep my job at Goodyear so that I still have an income coming in.  Two I am fighting to keep my blood pressure in check and now this newest battle of fighting type 2 diabetes. If there was ever a time that I needed Jesus to help me fight my battles it would be right now.  I don't understand why this happen.  I did everything as my trainer has told me and for some reason my hand never got off.  I would like to give a big thanks to Johnny aka squirrel for hitting  the emergency stop in time.  Without him my injuries probably could have been much worse.

Signed,
Tim "lucky to be alive" Crippen