Happy Birthday Bobbie
Stuck in bed is not fun, but it made me think about what I have to be
thankful for as a quad.
1: I am alive, relatively healthy, and it sure beats the alternative.
:-)
2: as I have gotten older I have also grown more patient (not always)
3: because I cannot take care of my grandchildren while they still are
babies, when they are here I spend much more time just observing them
and enjoying each little improvement, I got a bye-bye wave to day. I was
always too busy just to watch.
4: the marvelous people who have come into my life that I would not
have met otherwise.
5: technology, technology. I was already using a computer in 1990 when
I broke my neck. As a C4 with no movement below shoulders technology
is fantastic. Speech recognition does have its flaws, but it sure does
beat typing each and every word with a mouthstick.
6: the innate goodness of the majority of people who offer to help when
I am out and about. Most people
Are so helpful that it makes up for the nerdy minorities.
7: The Sun!
8: Family
9: Friends, especially the very handy ones who have learned how to
maintain my wheelchair, my ECU, an all other items that makes life easier
for me.
10: and the fact that lying in bed usually does come to an end. It took
me 13 months and I was extremely glad to get out.
Hope you have very many more, and that this time spent in bed is over soon.
Joan
