Glad it worked out for your Mother. Well done.
Hope you brought that neighbour a bouquet of grass feed sirloin and garlic mushrooms.
He actually has a sweet tooth for a particular kind of candy- I went to the best chocolate place in my area and bought him far too much of his favorite stuff.
I am still an atheist, but if anything made me want to start believing in miracles or angels or humans operating under the will of God, it was that day. There was literally about a 3 minute window for me to be overheard ranting about this problem on my phone, outside, as my neighbor was getting ready to leave for work. And I just happened to be out there, talking to a person who "gets it" about my mother's condition, loudly enough to be overheard. So many things had to fall into place for me to get that ivermectin as quickly as I did.
Just wow. Yeah coincidence, synchronicity, happenstance, butterfly effect , will of God and all that - one can go through their entire life and never see it or see it all around them or something in between . I still have no idea personally - but i can't completely dismiss it either so i'll definitely take it if i can get it.
I usually chalk up stuff like this to pure coincidence. But the monumentality of it all, and the sheer importance to me that the outcome had (because I didn't want my mother suffering and dying like this) perhaps makes me view it differently?
As a lifelong atheist who has wanted to believe (I just have trouble shutting off that rational part of my brain and giving myself fully over to the concept of faith, maybe it's because I'm autistic or something), this sort of thing really gets in my head. But then I think, isn't it really arrogant for me to believe that God, the all-knowing, all-powerful ruler/creator of the universe and all of its wonders (and horrors) would single me and my mother out to help like this? Confusing stuff.
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