Capt Lighting,
We may be opposites, lol. I donāt believe in luck. My mother is a so called āJesus freakā, and I find her so hypocritical. The young man you speak of was probably influenced by parents and some unconventional religion-sad. My son doesnāt believe in god either so non belief is not a deal breaker for me. I donāt try and convince anyone to believe.
Anyway, I will relate a story as well (May have told it before. Iām so chatty I canāt keep track of what I say, lol.). Last year one weekend, I wasnāt feeling well. Felt off on Friday. Saturday felt a bit worst, so told my husband I needed to go to the instant care. He said no. Youāre fine, we have lots to do, it will take forever, they will send you to the ER. Ok.
All morning my guardian angel nagged at me (itās a never ending heavy feeling that I should do something.) In your case, it might have been a āgutā feeling. (Believers have guardian angels, non-believers have gut feelings, IMO.). Nag, nag, nag. Finally, I tell my husband I still donāt feel well generally and I have to go see the doc.
The doctor did an EKG, thought I was having a heart attack. āSee this line is flatā, hmm ok. I thought she was wrong. (She was.). She wanted me to go to the ER. Nope, not going. She said she would call my doctor and talk to her because if I didnāt go to the ER, I would die. The nurses couldnāt draw blood, so went to the hospital lab, got blood draw.
Still got the nagging guardian angel, now telling me to go to the ER. Still staying home, waiting for the lab result. On-call doctor calls and tells me to go to the ER. OMG, am I having a heart attack? Have I been stupid about this? No, he thinks itās a lung embolism. Sigh. Fine, I say, I will go tomorrow. My guardian angel is screaming at me. Go now.
This heavy urge to go, go now, becomes a major compulsion to get moving. But itās late. My husband doesnāt want to take me. I donāt want to go. I feel odd, not well, but canāt pin point exactly what the problem is and I am breathing fine. The on-call doctor says, āYou will die if you donāt go.ā Hmm, lord love a duck, I go. The word hurry pops into my head.
Ugh. Saturday night in the ER. Wait your turn, despite two doctors calling ahead to get me in right away. There are no available ER rooms, but Iāll get the first available. Finally a room, wait for the retesting to be done. Then the drugs are hung. Turns out I was so depleted of potassium that my heart was shutting down, and other complications. Had a couple of IV bags of the stuff. Was there forever. Good thing you came in she says, you would have died.
Had to take two potassiumās pills a day for couple weeks, and now have to take it once a day. Saw my primary care doc the next day, my cardiologist a week later. Five doctors agreed if I hadnāt gone to the instant care walk in clinic, and then the ER, I would have died that night.
Guardian angel vs. āgutā feelings-are they the same? Donāt know. Lol, there is an old saying that you donāt have to believe in God cause God believes in you. But I have a guardian angel, my guardian angel has nagged me about other family members, and heās never been wrong. Hopefully, you have āgutā feelings.
