Not Again?

Gatorade’s slogan reads, “Is it in you?”

“Yes, I have mutant Gatorade sloshing though my organs like a snowplow clearing everything in its unfortunate path.”  As I am writing this I am caught in a “not again” moment. A “not again” moment is a repeated, tiresome, irritating event. Like when a Kindergartner smashes their second glue stick, when coffee splotches your clothes after the second changing, and when your major league team cannot secure the win after the second consecutive error.  Life also houses more serious “not again” moments. Like when children are denied love and respect again, when health fails again, and when people go hungry again. The feeling of an empty rumbling stomach, for me is like rolling my foot over a tree nut as the slow pressure begins to build and produce an uncomfortable type of pain. This is only one part, as my “not again” moment involves another procedure that prevents me from eating for a day.  My brain cannot fathom the pain of others' “not again” perpetual hunger.

I’d like to tell Gatorade that what is NOT in me right now is solid food.

Crohn's Walk 2013

I’d also like to thank ImproveCareNow for the goal of being healthier together. This movement, to me constitutes fewer “not again” moments in the journeys of many peoples' health.  Working together improves outcome and prevents ailments that cause people to find themselves facing “not again” moments.  If Gatorade were to interview athletes they would probably answer, “Yes, it is in me!" Together with ImproveCareNow we can respond in kind, with the attitude that it is in us to work together and help diminish “not again” moments.