Episode 252-Juliette Osborne, Five years a faster dealing with life's curve balls adventures and crisis.
The last five years have been one adventure or crisis after another. The only things that have stayed consistent have been her faith in Jesus, her marriage to a great guy, her four cool kids, and IF. She has fasted daily since October 28th, 2019, through all the following.
Homeschooling four children, three of them through high school. Teaching art classes as art director of drama
productions for four plays in which the three older children were actively involved with set design and prominent speaking roles. Organizing and speaking at ladies' conferences two times a year. The husband has several job changes, one with a lengthy commute.
COVID need to say anymore?
Youngest daughter loses the ability to use her
legs intermittently for about a year, which involved lots of specialists with super scary treatment plans.
The oldest daughter has severe vitamin D deficiency, losing all of her hair and experiencing severe exhaustion during
school, work and soccer.
Mother-in-law broke her hip twice and is
diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, which involved her having a brain tumour
removed and subsequent radiation and chemotherapy. Two of her daughters-in-law shared her care, one of whom was Juliette.
Oldest son captains in two varsity sports
, football and wrestling, made for year-round hectic sports schedules.
The same son gets a severe concussion, making him
unable to work or go to school for several months. There was a personality change for a time, which was terrifying.
Husband had five surgeries on his eyes, two of
which were emergencies and weren't guaranteed to save his eyesight as the optical nerve was damaged.
Starts working at Kohl's 3 days a week just to
get out of the house and see people.
Family takes an epic road trip across the
country to see the Colorado Rockies.
The oldest child has a cyst on her spine, which creates such excruciating agony that her pain can't be managed from home. Lots of MRIs and specialists and no real answers until… leukemia diagnosis.
Daughter starts her 2-3 year treatment plan
for leukemia and all the hard stuff that comes with that.
Juliette begins running and training for 5K
races, a sprint triathlon, a half marathon and her favourite, obstacle course runs.
Just before this podcast, her closest friend
of 20 years was diagnosed with a stage four brain tumour.
Perimenopause ramps up, making for an
unusually cranky mom and wife on occasion.
Celebrating 26 years of marriage in June!
How did she stay so disciplined with IF
through all of this? It is because she never could have done 90% of those things prior to IF. She was so ill with a host of issues (see episodes 40 and 185 for her full IF story) that she was often bedridden and in a wheelchair. IF gave her the fuel and health to thrive amid all these crazy
hardships and adventures.
It can do the same for you. She wants to
Remember not to let your current circumstances keep you from “seizing the day” wherever you are treading water in your life.
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