Question of the Day!

I am grateful that I am still among the living, proving certain doctors wrong with every day I wake. I am grateful for my family and good friends, who keep me going on those days I'd rather crawl into a hole and die. Grateful for my daughters, my grandbabies, my parents, my husband, my fur-babies. I am grateful for those who were there with/for me when it was unclear if I were going to survive my stays in the hospital: family, doctors, nurses. I'm grateful for my new team of doctors, who all work together to treat my numerous problems and illnesses and have been successful in helping me regain the ability to live an almost normal life again (medications not withstanding). I'm grateful for my current co-workers and former students.

I'm grateful for being able to feel the sunshine, to see flowers blooming each season, to dance in the rain, to cuddle up next to a warm fire.

I suppose it took almost dying for me to realize that each moment of life is worth being grateful for, good, bad, or indifferent. This time I have left is a gift meant to be treasured. I'm grateful I learned that lesson while I still had time to do so.