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Yes, it\u2019s a picture of shelves full of Tylenol and some of Tylenol\u2019s pain reliever cousins.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Go ahead and ask the burning question: \u201cWhy do you have this picture on your blog, Michelle?\u201d\u00a0<\/div>\n
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To answer your burning question, I have to give a bit of backstory. A year ago, I had a job that required me to go sit in an office each day. Like all jobs, it had great parts (the students with whom I worked) and some not-so-great parts. But I knew it wasn\u2019t exactly where I belonged. I am a writer, but I knew I needed to do something else to (a) bring in some sort of regular and non-imaginary part-time income and (b) get out of the house so I didn\u2019t get wacky. When we were in Israel in February last year, I was praying with an amazing intercessor there, and the fully-formed thought came into my head:\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Be a caregiver.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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I didn\u2019t argue right away, though the thought certainly blind-sided me. I viewed myself as more of a kid through young adult person than an old person person. The <\/span>\u201cBe a caregiver<\/span><\/b>\u201d thought was so shocking that I voiced it in the middle of our prayer. My prayer partner just smiled and nodded. <\/span><\/div>\n
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There was a small amount of context for the idea: I got to know some caregivers when my mom was in hospice care, and experienced first-hand each how amazing it was to have someone come into a hard, transitional situation and graciously do what was necessary to support a patient and the patient\u2019s family. I became a caregiver fan. But it certainly wasn\u2019t anything I imagined for myself. Evereverever. Never.\u00a0 <\/div>\n
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But sure enough, within a few weeks after I left Trinity, I was hired by a caregiving agency. I didn\u2019t feel goosebumps or hear angels singing as I searched for a position. I simply followed the voice that had spoken that shocking thought to me.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Which leads, nearly a year later, to me standing in a drug store, taking pictures of Tylenol. I knew the lady I care for would never believe me if I told her the store no longer carried the formulation she liked. So I whipped out my cell phone and took a few pictures of the shelves so I could show her exactly what was in stock. Yes, I felt a little creepy doing this, but I knew it would help her understand what her options were when I came home empty-handed. (And it did!)<\/div>\n
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Like the last job I had, this job has some good parts (I get lots of opportunities to share my faith in word and deed; and it\u2019s only part-time!) and some bad parts (I\u2019d be better at the job if I had some mind-reading skills; my client keeps the thermostat in her house set at about 87 degrees).\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Was The Great Tylenol Caper one of those good parts or one of the bad parts of the job?<\/div>\n
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You decide.<\/div>\n
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Yes, it\u2019s a picture of shelves full of Tylenol and some of Tylenol\u2019s pain reliever cousins.\u00a0 Go ahead and ask the burning question: \u201cWhy do you have this picture on your blog, Michelle?\u201d\u00a0 To answer your burning question, I have to give a bit of backstory. 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