Big Blue Water
ComfortI don’t believe that God would set me up for failure .. and I have faith that he will see me through.
My husband worked in maintenance for 28 years at a local manufacturer. In the mid-80’s, he was working on a reaction injection molding machine when an o-ring broke and he was sprayed with isocyanate. At the time, reaction-injection molding was new technology in this area, and the people at the hospital were not prepared to deal with it. The poison control center in Atlanta was not prepared to deal with it. They didn’t call and tell me anything about the accident – he just didn’t come home from work that night. When he did come home, his flaming red hair was white – and he had a thick white coating covering his body.
Over the years, he has had multiple ‘growths’ on his body, has been ‘mis-diagnosed’ (twice) with prostrate cancer, and in late 2000, had surgery on both shoulders to separate the bones where they had ‘fused’ together. The surgery left him in a condition where he was no longer able to perform the job – and the company ‘disqualified’ him.
He attempted to get another job – driving truck – but found that, with the condition of his arms, he wasn’t able to do that either. He was too young for retirement and not eligible for unemployment. Some people say that we should have sued the company – but we didn’t. At the time, I made enough money to support us, so he just quit and stayed home.
About the same time, the company where I had worked for 20 years was sold. In 1998, it was apparent that they would soon go out of business, so I quit and went elsewhere.
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Michael Boyink
Hi Betty -
Your story has similar elements to my own…
When people say things like “I could never start my own business” I always answer with “I couldn’t either”...;)
Sometimes God seems to show us what to do by removing all the other options.
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