Meeting the right people

I have been told a time or two that God puts the right people in front of us at the right time. Well I am a firm believer in this and I believe that God sent me another angel to point me in the right direction about a month ago.

So..I'm walking through Whole Foods doing my weekly grocery shopping as well as trying to prepare for Thanksgiving. I have been running errands all day and my poor little body is so run down from the ulcerative colitis that I was starting to get exhausted. I was on the phone with my mom and I was starting to breakdown. My stomach was starting to hurt and my joints were starting to ache and my mom says to me honey, "you are almost done we'll just keep talking until your done". I was so frustrated I couldn't find this stupid organic corn syrup for a recipe I wanted to try and I had been looking for it for about 15 minutes. Damn Whole Foods..the setup is so not logical sometimes. Anyways I finally find my corn syrup and as I am grabbing it this nice older gentlemen says to me something along the lines of "I wish I could find what I was looking for" and me being me I took pity on the poor guy. I say to him what are you looking for and he says turmeric.Now we are in the spice aisle after all and I thought well this should be simple, well.....we are in Whole Foods so it took a minute but as we are looking we start chatting.....

I asked him what he was using the turmeric for and he says with a smile I'm not sure my wife says she needs a cup of this stuff to make me a soup. As a sufferer of ulcerative colitis who has done a ton of research I know a turmeric soup is something people use to bring down inflammation. So I slyly ask him if he had a digestive issue and low and behold he has ulcerative colitis too! WHAT!! In the 2 years I have been sick I have never met anyone with my condition. I was so excited. We chatted for about 20 minutes in the aisles of Whole Foods and we exchanged numbers with the promise to keep in touch.

Well I have to be honest as the depression weighs me down I'm just not so good with these things. But thank God for people like Mr. Dan! This man called me frequently leaving messages and trying to check up on me. He was so desperate to help me because he had this product that helped him. Apart of me kept thinking he's just trying to sell me his crappy products but the other part of me remembered how genuine this man was when we spoke and I knew he just wanted to help.

So finally according to his wife Mrs. Suzy, he was ready to give up but she asked him one last important question, how old is she? Dan tells her my age and she goes well Dan she is the era of the text not the telephone (haha so true for me) and Mrs. Suzy text me. And finally we got together for a nice lunch and instantly I knew these people were here to help me. AND SO THE NEW JOURNEY BEGINS...I'm trying something new once again.