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At last, all systems are cleared to proceed on my beloved's gall bladder/bile duct procedures. The first is this morning. The second will be on Monday. Both are scheduled as out-patient procedures. Life willing, Monday's procedure will be the last of the gall bladder issues.
I am as nervous as a Mama Grizzly during hunting season...
"Courage to Change" is still on its roll. Again, today's reading felt synchronized with the flow of my personal stresses. Well... Softly edited to fit the parameters of my current day...
"Today, while trying to work, I found myself slumping in my chair, depressed and distracted. Soon, all thoughts of work had fled, and I was busy projecting a horrible outcome to my beloved's crisis and dreading the ways in which the consequences might affect me. The slogan, "One Day at a Time" reminds me that, in spite of my fears, I don't know what tomorrow will bring.
"Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I've given my feelings no room to exist. Part of me gambles that by worrying in advance, bad news will be easier to face if it comes. But worrying will not protect me from the future. It will just keep me from living here and now.
"TODAY'S REMINDER
"I needn't explore how I'll feel about something that might occur in the future. I don't actually know how I'll feel, and it may never happen. So when I feel myself leaving the present, I'll remind myself that the future is not today's problem.
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength." ~A.J. Cronin"
Thanks for letting me share. I am off to the Medical Races. Prayers -by whatever name- welcome.
I am as nervous as a Mama Grizzly during hunting season...
"Courage to Change" is still on its roll. Again, today's reading felt synchronized with the flow of my personal stresses. Well... Softly edited to fit the parameters of my current day...
"Today, while trying to work, I found myself slumping in my chair, depressed and distracted. Soon, all thoughts of work had fled, and I was busy projecting a horrible outcome to my beloved's crisis and dreading the ways in which the consequences might affect me. The slogan, "One Day at a Time" reminds me that, in spite of my fears, I don't know what tomorrow will bring.
"Why am I leaping into the future? Perhaps I've given my feelings no room to exist. Part of me gambles that by worrying in advance, bad news will be easier to face if it comes. But worrying will not protect me from the future. It will just keep me from living here and now.
"TODAY'S REMINDER
"I needn't explore how I'll feel about something that might occur in the future. I don't actually know how I'll feel, and it may never happen. So when I feel myself leaving the present, I'll remind myself that the future is not today's problem.
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength." ~A.J. Cronin"
Thanks for letting me share. I am off to the Medical Races. Prayers -by whatever name- welcome.
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I did the dumbest thing today. I charged my earbuds, unplugged the block and put the block in my little bag instead of the earbuds. I wasn't happy about that when I got to the gym. What a dummy!
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Ever since I stopped doing therapy because of insurance, I've been feeling that old tense and irritable sense of anxiety and stress. I hate that. I was making so many strides and changes during therapy, my therapist would acknowledge all of my progress and accomplishments, and I miss that reassurance. Today I thought about it, and I made those changes! She would always tell me that I chose to...
May your surgeon be ridiculously competent and unimaginably lucky !
***sigh*** Onward through the fog.
Already did my candlelight bath. Think I'll do a horror movie.