Today I am grateful for....

I am grateful to be here one year after diagnosis and to be told last Thursday that the blood clots in my lungs are being controlled by the anticoagulants. Even if I don't leave the house today it will still be a good day.

Am feeling really unhappy due to relocation three months ago. We are now living very near DD2 and her lovely and loving family. I was so excited prior to the move and now am missing my old life really badly.
So this thread has been an excellent wake-up call. I have so many blessings to count.
I am receiving so much support, our family is all fit and healthy, we will all be together for Christmas, I am making new friends, we have beautiful beaches to walk on, the geese fly overhead morning and evening etc etc.
Note to self: pull yourself together woman!!

My h has been unwell for some time and he has had lots of tests. We found out he has to have a pacemaker fitted. Which will be in the next two weeks. Very greatful that at last things have been sorted.

I am so fateful that I can now walk without grinding pain and for the research and the medical team who made it possible. Just a TKR but a small miracle to me.

I am even grateful I can correct my post but not for predictive text.

Mostly grateful for my family and good friends. Everything is a bonus

My reasons to be grateful today are:
The sun's coming out
We're giving my DM a surprise lunch party at their house (2 months ago she was very poorly but has recovered a little)
My DSis's recovery from a brain tumour is now heading in the right direction after a very scary few months.

I am grateful for my fantastic husband who helps me and supports me and my fantastic daughter who is beyond belief my gorgeous son in law who is like my second son our son who is my rock and the wonderful friends who are family to me. I am grateful that my bowel cancer check wass clear and I am able to do stuff even though I am in pain. It had been a difficult year losing my precious mum this year and seeing my dad so lost but we have all stuck tog. So hopefully this beautiful time of year and my gorgeous precious grandson will heal the sad ness happy Christmas to you all

Today I am very grateful that the suspected cancer in my husband's bowel came back as non-malignant!
He has been in hospital for 3 weeks today, and I was beginning to wonder if he would be coming home at all at one point, because he had lost over 3 stone in weight since September - but today I shall visit with a smile on my face and genuinely mean it.

Unfortunately, I don't feel grateful about anything at the moment.

Don't feel there's anything to look forward to.

I must be depressed.

Everything I have. That Grace is still with us, aged 5, when doctors said she would only live a year. It is unlikely to be a long life but she is happy and very much loved.

I am grateful for the sun coming back soon, the earth will warm and things will grow again, nature all around me.

I am grateful to be still alive, I'm grateful that I have my son daughter in law and 3 grandchildren. I'm grateful I will soon see my lovely daughter, who lives in the South, for Christmas. Also grateful I have enough to have a nice Christmas and to know that soon will be the shortest day and then the days will get longer again. I too hate the cold.
Victoria08, do get help if you are clinically depressed. If it's just a down day it will pass.
Hugs and flowers to those with serious problems and hope the New Year brings better things.

Dear Victoria08

I was so sorry to read that you don't feel there is anything to be grateful for at the moment. I know that Christmas and the run-up to it can make it seem like everyone has happy families and are going to have a wonderful time.

I have had a difficult year with panic attacks and periods of anxiety and the worries are not going to disappear just because the calendar shifts to a year with a 7 in it.

I don't know your circumstances but I have found it helpful to pamper myself sometimes and to occupy myself doing things that I enjoy.

I try not to focus on or analyse my feelings if I feel bad. I know that just as the Earth rotates in space, eventually new things will happen and that I can also help to make things happen in small ways.

I hope this helps.

I very grateful and glad to be here and seeing my 4 grandchildren growing up to be the little people that they are. Christmas is just around the corner and I have the pleasure of being able to buy them gifts and see them on Christmas day.

I am grateful for all the lovely people who will come together this afternoon for the the jolly pre-Christmas event that my singing group organise in a local church - we all have a great time - lots of mince pies, ringing of bells, laughter, sharing of talents, coming together of the generations and raising some money to maintain the wonderful building and to support our wonderful wee primary school.

I'm grateful that I have the best partner I could ask for, grateful for her love and the laughter we share.

Clean, running water, electricity, no cockroaches in bedroom. Posting from a country where it's all been a bit of an issue!

That a not nice year is looking brighter for some, not for others, but that we have the ability to make the most of family and friendship.

I'm grateful that our GS continues to grow and flourish after his battle with meningoccal septacaemia 6 years ago this Christmas. We're all grateful to the doctor who diagnosed him when others had failed and to the children's ambulance team at GOS who worked to keep him alive.

goldengirl that will mean more than anything to you and your family.

It does Anya. He's actually with us at the moment doing electronics stuff with his grandad and singing away. It makes me very emotional

I am grateful that my lovely daughter who drives me up the wall is such a strong person and has amazed us all by coming through a terrible year. Her Husband died at the same time as I was told that my tests showed it was a 90%% chance of my lump being ovarian cancer and booked in for an operation the following week. I was unable to support and help my physicall and mentally disabled daughter cope at this awful time but she did. Now she is happier than ever (was it a happy marriage? And the money he left her helped) and I didnt have cancer. Also grateful for the wonderful friends I have around the world.

Goldengirl

Grateful for the wonderful two week holiday/adventure I have just had with DD2
And that she and her sister will be with us for Christmas
It has been a difficult year for all of us ,but those things which can get better are doing so, and for that I am grateful

I too am so grateful for my good health and the body that carries me through life. For a long time now my quietly spoke. mantra at the end of a yoga class is "thankfulness, gratefulness, grounded and strong"