One year today. Officially.
I’m up super early today. I couldn’t sleep anymore thinking back on what a journey of ups and downs this year has brought. One of the hazards of dealing with major health issues is the brain is a chattery beast, at 3 am especially. Today, however it is no longer due to fear or anxiety or pain, it is due to wonder and hope and resolve. And I’m of a mind to celebrate. All day, every day, in all the healthy ways I can imagine.
I don’t even know what exactly I want to do to celebrate. I’m kinda already doing it. Any ideas? In the past it may have been, ooh, let’s go out to eat, a celebratory cocktail, a party! But now it’s, hey let’s go for a horseback ride, a hike, find a new vegetable to try (no I’m not joking about the vegetable, hahahahaah).
I want to shout from the rooftops to all who will take heart, get out and take care of yourself, fix what’s ailing you to the best of your abilities, find the answers, open your eyes and your heart and maybe, just maybe all will be ok, and you’ll feel better than you dared to hope.
So thank you to everyone who plays a part in revving up the engines, inspiring action and hope and all that goes with it. Grateful to my family and friends, NOOM, my medical team, my body for actually paying attention when I needed it most and the support groups that I found along the way.
One year free of alcohol, refined sugars,enriched flour, fast food, soda, and all that weighed me down. A year of healing, mind, body, heart and soul. A year of honest self reflection, and growth and the healing, oh the healing. And just a few pounds lost in the process (123 and some change). A year of feeding the body and mind in the way it needed.
I miss nothing, I crave action, living, loving, learning more than ever before. And yeah, I got on that horse.
So thanks, liver…for speaking up. Apparently I needed to hear what you had to say.
Love, Sue
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