Things to be grateful for:
1) Not living on the East Coast right now. I used to live on Long Island and I saw pictures from 3 of the towns I have lived/worked in. They were decimated. I feel badly for the friends left behind to cope with the mess. http://www.redcross.org/hurricane-sandy
2) One of my dear friends lost her husband this week to pancreatic cancer. (No this isn't the grateful part) The grateful part is this: In his battle the last 10 plus months from diagnosis, he was not in pain, and at the end, she was with him to hold his hand and kiss him goodbye. That is a gift and a final act of love.
3) Simple pleasures: It didn't rain on the last day of the soccer season today.
4) Friends and Family: In spite of the pain and agony of the past few months/weeks/and yes, years, the bright spot was always you.
5) Doctors who listen; 'nuf said.
6) Medicines that work: ditto.
7) For Carole C, the nurse practitioner who had a "gut feeling" and diagnosed me correctly with Behcet's, putting me on a road to getting help.
8) My husband's amazing healing from his stroke. It is so good to have him feel "normal" even though there is the new "normal" .
9) That no matter what, we can pick up the pieces and move on.
10) That the election will be over soon and we can have one day off before the 2016 election cycle starts.
Oops, one more: I am so happy that the arthritis affects my left hand the worst so I can keep knitting with my right.
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