Gratitude

Maybe I should’ve wrote this for Thanksgiving…oh well.

What are you all grateful for? Yeah the list can go on and on of things I can complain about going wrong, but why even start down that path?

Maybe we can get a stream of things we’re grateful for in the comment section, deal?

Let me get the ball rolling and start off.

I’m grateful to still be alive. I could’ve died a couple of times back in 2014 when I had the two strokes, but God felt my time wasn’t up.  I’m grateful I’m not paralyzed on one side of my body like so many others who’ve I met that had a Traumatic Brain Injury. Yes, my right side of my entire body is a little weaker than my left side, but at least I still have use of it.

I’m grateful I can walk now. Better yet, I can drive. Back when I had the two strokes in 2014, I remember having blurred vision for the longest time. My eyes were very sensitive to light. I had to close the blinds in my room and block the night light with the chair from my sight. All I can think about were the handful of people in the nursing home I was in that could not see any object to the left of them. I couldn’t even comprehend this. Even if I was on their left side, they wouldn’t know unless I told them. I also had a glare in my vision from the strokes. For all those who know what I’m talking about, I thought it would never go away. All I can describe it like was it was like an empty stare. Having this glare, just looking at me, anyone can tell something was different about me.

Even though I was the only youngest female in there, there were plenty of guys younger than me that had sustained Traumatic Brain Injuries. A couple of them were completely permanently paralyzed. A couple were on feeding tubes. They were either in car accidents, etc. that they were completely immobilized.

Here I was getting impatient of my recovery. My recovery wasn’t quick enough in my eyes. I should be grateful at how far I’ve come. Here I was trying to jump on the train toward normalcy. Didn’t I learn anything from what I had experienced? To take things slow, enjoy life, and enjoy the company around me while I still can? (to be continued…)