24.5

My life is comprised of numbers. Well everyone’s is, but mine is more than ever with the medical aspect of everything. 
24.5 was the level of my creatinine when I was diagnosed with total renal failure. A normal level is anywhere from .07-1.3. Any doctor would have said I should have been dead with that kind of level. Now each time I go to dialysis my creatinine number goes down and up again in between each session. There are several other numbers that are monitored regularly like my blood pressure, weight, potassium, phosphorus, medication level, and also my temperature.
Now let’s take my blood pressure for example. My blood pressure likes to do what it’s not supposed to on a regular basis; when it should be low it goes high and vise versa. So when it decides not to cooperate the doctors adjust my meds to counteract what is happening. When they adjust my meds they do so with the assumption that I have been taking my regular required meds. So if I don’t do even the most basic of what is required of me, things will begin to go wrong and the doctors begin making massive changes to correct for the wrong. These adjustments then have a negative reaction when I do my regular doses again.
 This is all the same for my relationship with God. I need to be doing the basics to maintain steady levels. If I don’t, I begin to make massive changes trying to figure out what is wrong-it could be that I haven’t been praying on a regular basis or reading His word lately. 

Although they seem mundane, sometimes the basics are what is needed to maintain steady levels and a steady life.