Friday, December 28, 2012

Christmas for the Brain Damaged - The Last One - (Promise)

Hello Fellow Travelers!

I thought that since 2012 is almost over and it does appear I'm going to live on I should record how I have spent the last two holiday seasons with severe impairments.  I am resolved to undergoing whatever procedure is available.  2013 will be a little different and, hopefully so will I!  I have been focused on one thing only for the last 20 months, one goal.  Over a year ago I ceased taking all medications.  Over a year ago I started working out daily.  My quality of life bites - hard!  Every day brings new challenges and new chances for me to find humor in every silly situation I find myself in.

My wonderful in-laws have included me (no doubt my spouse and son were really the invitees, I just get invited because like the mighty cockroach,  I refuse to die! That and Sean and I don't believe in divorce.) in all their holiday doins' which are pretty special.(Let's face facts:  Even mute I'm more entertaining than my spouse.  I might knock something or someone over, that's always good for a chuckle.)  Or I run into people who last saw me the 10 days or so before I had a grapefruit sized tumor removed from my brain.  It does explain a lot, however...

I have been appreciative to all the O'Reilly's for all their love and support (and food!) so I am planning a more normal winter in 2013.  I saw how much my son needs me this year.  My favorite brother-in-law said to me, "Your recovery is not a race."  He's probably right that was definitely my mind-set in the first year
 Now I feel great all the time and I see everything and everyone a little differently.  My patient spouse is running out of patience.  My son is a tween!  A gangly tween!  So I feel that time is a precious commodity and I have none.  So let's get this recovery show on the road!  Like yesterday!

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