I can feel the good vibes everyone is sending. Thank you.
Today is a much better day. Still raining, but did see a glimpse of sun. Raining again now. I’m trying to fight off a cold so I don’t have to reschedule my surgery. I’ve been sitting at home reading and resting, hard for me to do… I have to get blood tests today and I hope they don’t push back my surgery because of this cold.
I met an old friend out walking a couple days ago and told her about my situation and she promptly replied with ‘gratitude’ counts. It is interesting how that word had become more prominent in my life the last year. Before it seemed to be ‘thankful’, but gratitude feels like a more encompassing thankfulness.
A full 30 years ago I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when I started grad school with my life in front of me. I had just moved to the Midwest with my new husband and I remember lying on the dirty green shag carpet in the apartment not knowing what I had since the symptoms literally showed up one day. They progressed from weird vision changes to numbness and loss of balance, followed by a spinal headache from a diagnostic test, that I just decided whatever the outcome was I would be okay if I could help just one person. That became a very powerful thought I carried with me over the several months of healing and restructuring my grad program and eventually my life.
I know that is one of the reasons I decided to write about this experience. You never know who can benefit from what you’ve done or experienced.
