Three Glorious Years!
- Susan Pryde
- Apr 12, 2024
- 2 min read
I’ve been trying to think of how I want to share and celebrate a very important anniversary today. I’m not quite sure what to say, so I’ll just let it flow. I
Three years ago today, or April 12, 2021, I took control of my life and my health. I only knew that I had some sort of liver disease, not yet knowing it was actually stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver, that diagnosis was still forthcoming. I only knew it wasn’t good, and if I didn’t do something and quit burying my head in the sand, my lifespan was going to be short, and what living I would do may not be at full capacity.
So on that day, I gave up alcohol, fast food, and anything that didn’t qualify as nutrition or life-sustaining. I was scared half to death, I didn’t know which way to turn, or who I could talk to that would understand.
It’s been a long, winding, and wonderful road. Doors opened that I didn’t even know existed. I lost a boatload of weight, but I gained self-respect, self-care, vitality, joy in living each moment, awareness of the love and beauty that surrounded me, and a bunch of additional friends who shared my condition, and deepening longstanding friendships. I blogged, I overshared, and I wrote a dang book. And I healed! I healed in every way imaginable. Most recently I have found my faith in God, the one piece of the puzzle that was missing.
When all seemed lost, I truly was found.
So celebrate with me. Photos taken three years apart sans makeup. But hey, I am who I am. And I am beyond happy. I am eternally grateful to you all for your support and love.
Love, Sue
The luminescence link on this watch is quite good, and of course, that is aided by the thick, applied white numerals (filled with Super-LumiNova). Generally, with pilot, or pilot-adjacent watches, the lume is either nothing to write home about, or only certain markers are given the lume treatment. Here, every numeral, every marker, and every hand are link treated with lume, so you can get equal link enjoyment out of the dial in both bright or lowlight environments.