Spoon Full of Comfort

Happy Sunday,

Hello everyone. How are you doing on this absolutely beautiful Sunday evening? I’m not sure what the weather was like in your neck of the woods today, but here, holy heck it was incredible. The sun was shining. The wind blew and gave us a cool breeze to enjoy. Birds were chirping. My dad (in butterfly form) kept flying by and families enjoyed birthday parties at the beach. It for sure was a perfect day.

John is packing and getting ready to leave for his week in Denver. He’s traveling for work and that’s okay. He loves his job and the team he works with, so I’m happy to support him fully while he’s traveling. We’re partners in this life and I want to always support his passion for work. John’s amazing at what he does and though he’ll be missed this week by me especially, traveling is something he needs to do from time to time.

Speaking of John’s job, the most incredible thing happened this past week. Friday to be exact. I had come home from my nieces and John came out to the car to help me with our pups. When we were walking back in the house he noticed a big box on our park bench. It was addressed to him, but he didn’t remember ordering anything, then it dawned on him. The package was actually for me. To my absolute amazement it was a care package from his boss Stacy.

Guys, I don’t know Stacy. I’ve never spoken to her, yet she thought enough of John to send me a care package, and this was no ordinary care package. It was something that was not only perfect, but priceless to me.

The attention to detail in the packaging alone is extraordinary. When I picked up the box I was met with beautiful sayings and artwork. Each side of the box had something different written on it. One side said, “spoonful of comfort”. The other side said “spoonful of comfort” with a steam coming from the ladle that was filled with soup. The third side had a very attractive rooster with the business’s website, “spoonfulofcomfort.com” and finally, the fourth side said simply, “packed with care and caring. What’s inside was selected by someone who is thinking of you”.

I thought wow! Then I could hardly wait to see what was inside. As I opened the box I was met with three additional boxes and a stunning silver ladle with a tiny yellow bow wrapped around it. On the ladles packaging it read, “Love by the spoonful”.

Each box not only had the company’s logo, which by the way is beautiful, it had sayings on the outside as well as inside. Instead of me writing what they are, I’ll share photos of my perfect pick-me-up gift that was sent from a woman I’ve never met. A who cares enough about her employees to not only take them into consideration and show them kindness and compassion when they are met with illness or whatever big thing is happening in their lives, Stacy cared enough about the spouse of her employee. Me.

Sitting through an entire day of iron infusion, then having the recovery process be a lot harder than I thought, receiving a comfort and kindness gift brought a huge smile to my face. Friday was actually the hardest day following my infusion. I don’t know why, but I was sicker then sick and as my day progressed, I wanted to die because I felt like I had been run over by a Mack truck.

I was down all Wednesday through all of yesterday really. Today was the first day I’ve felt good. In fact, this is the best I’ve felt in a very long time. I’m amazed at how good I feel and shocked that I was so sick following the infusion, even yesterday I didn’t feel great, but today, I woke up a new person. I finally felt like a human and not a blob. Having my iron levels into the single digits and having no strength and energy, I was becoming John’s beast instead of his beauty. Nothing about me was nice. I’ve felt like a shell of a person for quite some time, and I was near giving up on ever feeling good again.

The infusion is a not a solution to my issue. I still have a “leak” as my hematologist says. Hopefully now though I’ll have the strength to continue on working with my medical team to find out why I’m “leaking” or bleeding internally. It’s not a major bleed, but something is going on to cause me to be depleted of iron and to have my iron levels dropping every week. Fingers crossed I’ll get answers sooner than later.

As I sit here tonight writing this blog, I am tired. My body is shutting down and one thing I’ve learned through this entire process is, I do have to take time for me to rest. I had a busy day and honestly, I’ve more than likely, overdone it. The quote below is so fitting for how I’m feeling right now and it’s a great reminder that I do need to rest from time to time.

My dear friend Jan told me today, “you have to take care of yourself”.

John’s mom said to me tonight, “I hope you can see now how you need to rest”.

I promised Mina I would, but I can’t until November 1st. I have some obligations I need to take care of between now and then; however, I will be taking more me time on the weekends. I told John and Grant; my body is at a point where I am now required to ask you both to help me more on weekends. As much as I want to do more, I need the weekends to recover and by the time my iron levels are back to normal in 4-6 weeks, I’ll be done with my commitment and then I’ll be able to take better care of me.

John is always so incredible about not only helping me but wanting to help me. He’s always telling me I’m his most precious cargo whenever I drive away. He always welcomes each day to me with, ‘good morning beautiful.’ He told me just yesterday, “I’d do anything for you,” and I know he would. Not that I would ask him to, Instead, it’s the unconditional love for me that completes me. I know God gave me my perfect love story when He gave me John.

I have some pretty amazing people in this life, and I am beyond grateful to each and every one of you for being a part of my life. I am truly blessed.

I am grateful for John, for our family, friends and community and I am grateful that John works for someone who has nothing but pure kindness and compassion in her heart. Stacy isn’t someone I know personally, but she’s forever etched on my heart as a woman who cares. John’s lucky to work with someone like her. I am thankful to her for making my recovery a little nicer and easier.

Below are some photos of my perfect gift:

The founders of Spoonful of Comfort have dived back into what customer service should be. They are just selling a product, they are selling a brand of thoughtfulness, compassion sprinkled with a little bit of love. The attention to detail is near perfect, actually, it is perfect in my opinion.

I opened each box and I was thrilled to read the different sayings.

In my boxes I received some yummy chicken and potato soup, some dinner rolls and chocolate chip cookies to enjoy for dessert. I even have a keepsake ladle in which I’ll proudly use for holiday functions and when I pull it from its space in my kitchen drawer, I’ll be reminded of the kindness bestowed upon me by a woman I’ve never had the honor of meeting.

A spoonful of comfort has made its way into our homes and into our hearts thanks to Stacy.

Just when you think life is in chaos, God sends reminders that through all the ups and downs, the world is still filled with wonderful people.

Well guys, I’ll be saying goodnight to you all. John heads out bright and early tomorrow so I do need to try and catch some sleep in order to get him to the airport on time.

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Until next time, don’t forget, Love Life++ Hugs.