My strange little life

I often have very strange "coincidences" happen to me. One that sticks out very powerfully in my head is when I was away my first year at OIT. One night I had a dream that my old cat Friskie was very ill and I had picked him up, carried him into a car, and frantically drove to a vet. In my dream I was crying so hard in the car, and even woke up crying. As far as I knew, Friskie had still been in good health. A day or two later, my mom called me and told me she had taken Friskie to the vet that day because he hadn't been doing well. He was having kidney failure and they were going to have to put him down. I know many would say that I had to have some kind of clue that he was getting on toward that time, but I really didn't.

Last summer I took the cats to the vet (this is an unrelated story) and saw a very odd "cat lady" there. I even blogged about her in my old MySpace blog. She had a blue tooth headset and two cell phones, and talked my ear off about what breed my cats were. Then she talked my ear off about her 12, yes 12, cats. You would think I would never see her again, except for maybe at the vet, right? Well she ended up being a patient of mine last month. I would have never recognized her until I had already given her chemo, taken out her IV, and and was ready to send her out- and she put her bluetooth headset in. The crazy cat lady I thought I would never see again ended up being my patient and even gave me a nick name and made me odd little crafts.

When I worked in the hospital I had the pleasure of taking care of a very cool woman. She was about 15 years older than me, but we would have been friends if we had been together in different circumstances. I would chat and bond with her when she was wide awake at night and she just had the best sense of humor. I knew she was a patient at a Beaverton clinic, so I knew that my chances of running into her again were very slim, but I have always wondered about her. Today at work, by mistake, our office received some kind of insurance approval/referral something regarding that very patient going on hospice care. She had never even been a patient at that clinic, ever, at any time; or under the care of any of our doctors working there now.

Whenever a person randomly pops into my head, or I have a weird dream- I always pray hard for that person. Whenever weird little "coincidences" happen, I am reminded that we DO live in a world that is in God's hands (yes, believe it or not it can be easy to forget!). Even if I were not a believer, it would be awefully hard to dismiss all of these things as "mere coincidences" or "simple accidents". Life is incredible.