Thanksgiving Message and Update
I am posting this Thanksgiving message early because this is also an update and I thought that I would combine both of them together.
I have a lot to be thankful this year and that is starting with my stroke. It is a blessing that it happen because I could have had a heart attack but I didn't. This was a message for me to slow down and start taking care of myself. I have taken heed to that message.
I am taking better care of myself and I have been talking with a good friend of mine that explain something to me why I can't accept the fact that I had a stroke. That is that my mind, body, soul, and spirit have been broken and now I have to work to mend them back together.
With that being said I think that now I can recover faster now that I am aware of that. I guess that my faith was also shaking somewhat too. Knowing that makes it somewhat easier to mend them all together again.
I don't know for sure when I will be back full time but I am still working part-time and I think that I should just not put a time limit on that because my doctors in general tell me it is just going to take some time for me to completely heal from this.
So I am going to take that time and work my way back slowly and just continue doing what I am doing for right now. I have been thinking that I will pick up my training after all the holidays are over. That way my concentration should be better by than.
I am working really hard to get back to where I was before all this happen but I have changed and I think that this is the new me from now on. Now for an update with WA is I am ranked at 27 for my WA rank and I have 2.3K followers now. I have been busy and also working on my sites of course off and on.
Since my doctors want me to stay busy and occupied I am volunteering with Civil Air Patrol (CAP). It is a program for young people who want to go into the military or just to have some discipline in their lives. So I am excited about that too besides working on my sites.
This is going to be good for me because I will be mentoring the youth and maybe even come up with another niche. I am doing fine and taking it easy and of course resting but now it is time for me to get back into the swing of things.
This is the way to do it and these kids need mentors more than ever. It is a win/win situation. Even though I wasn't in the military I have been a military wife for over thirty years so I live in the military because I still served alongside my husband.
My therapy is coming along I have two more weeks and than I am done with that. Physically I am doing great. It is emotionally that is the problem but like I said earlier in the post I am slowly coming to terms with what has happened to me and that is a great thing.
I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving where ever you are in this world. Enjoy the holiday with family and friends and don't take it for granted. Have fun and be thankful for what you have.
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Hi, Mary, take care and many blessings to you, thank you for sharing it is always good to have an understanding of where we are in our journey, you have such a positive attitude best wishes as you work towards a full recovery.
Alex.
Thank you, Alex, for your kind words I am keeping on keeping on because this is what I love to do. I am working on that full recovery and it has been a slow process but I am getting there.
Mary
I do understand hitting rock bottom. It is a hard thing to face but as you said, having done that, now you can really start to mend. Remember that your kind of recovery is kind of like eating an elephant. Instead of 1 bite at a time you just need to focus on 1 day at a time. God's best to you.
Bruce
Thank you, Bruce, for your kind words and encouragement. That is why I am just taking my time and working slowly. The physical part is healed it is the emotional part that is still healing and that is really going to take the time.
But I am regaining my faith slowly and looking to God because he has allowed me to go through this for a reason and I am looking to him for the guidance.
Mary
I hope you continue to improve Mary. I am glad to have you here and hope you feel better and better about your health and everything else.
I am feeling better and working through the rest of it slowly. I am getting there slowly but getting there. And having many friends here at WA supporting me has been a great deal of help too in my recovery as well.
I appreciate everyone here and I am thankful for that as well too.
Mary
Your health is the most important thing at the moment. Get well soon, WA is always here for you. All the best. Jim
Yes, it is important and I have finally realized that it took me to have a stroke for that to happen. I am taking care of myself better now then before it happens.
But it always takes us to get knocked on our butts before we take care of ourselves. That is why I am only working part-time for right now.
I will come back to full-time soon no time limited though.
Mary
Your positive outlook on life will help progress further you thought.
You are an inspiration to all of us.
Blessings Sandy
Thank you, Sandy, I really appreciate your kind words I am trying to be the best that I can be by helping everyone that I can.
By me helping others I am helping myself becoming the best person that I can.
Mary
Mary,
You are and always will be a successful person. You have a heart of gold. Have fun with the youth. They need you.
Sandy
Thank you for your kind words Sandy I really appreciate that so very much. You are a good friend and I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate you. I am keeping you in my prayers.
Mary
Thank you, Mary. These challenging times for me, due to my husband's illness, I appreciate your prays.
Sandy
You are very welcome I can understand what you are going through and I can appreciate it too. If you need to chat I am here for you.
Mary
Yes, we should all be thankful for what we have. So glad you are doing better, and, yes, take it slow. We will be here. We will welcome you when you come to WA. We will all be hoping for your full recovery.
Thank you so much for your kind words I have recovered well physically it is now I am working on the emotional part of me and I am slowly coming out of my fog.
Thank you for your support.
Mary
Mary, I’m so sorry about your health issues. Those types of things really can shake you to your core. My sister passed away in April of pancreatic cancer. It’s really affected me with paying attention to my own health.
Keep with what you are doing and continue to take care of yourself!
I am sorry to hear about your sister. I am doing fine now but at the beginning of this situation I was not myself and now I know that I have change I just don't know for the better or for the worse.
I am hoping and praying for the better. I am not used to the new me just yet so I am just going back to taking it one day at a time and let nature take its course.
Sometimes I feel that I am back to my old self and then I realize that I am not the same person anymore. So I have to take it as it comes from one day to the next.
Mary
I think I can understand how you feel-even though one cannot understand fully unless they have gone through the same things.
Just be patient with yourself and give yourself a break. Do something for yourself that gives you joy.
Thank you for your kind words I really appreciate that so very much. I am learning patience and it is hard because I really have never been a patient person but with my health, I now have to be.
I am focused on getting better right now. That I have been told what the problem is I can now tackle it and finally get better I am just a different person. This has changed me.
I will take your advice about doing something that gives me joy.
Mary
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Best wishes!
Best wishes to you too on your journey with WA and your business.
Mary