{"id":668,"date":"2009-10-14T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=668"},"modified":"2009-10-14T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T10:31:23","slug":"5-good-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"5 Good Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I discovered I was sick in February of this year I recall having – what I called then – five good days between then and May 18th.\u00c2\u00a0 That may sound a bit negative, but there were really five days during that time when I could say that I felt great.\u00c2\u00a0 The others were not so good days physically.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was thinking this morning about the number of good days since I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been here at MD Anderson Cancer Center in May 18th.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been out of the hospital for a total of eight weeks on and off as an outpatient.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the days were as an inpatient.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Being in a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new\u00e2\u20ac\u009d city as big as Houston, I have been able to take advantage of pro baseball games, some remarkable museums, and other sites that are not as frequent in smaller places like Columbia.\u00c2\u00a0 It has been good to be here and experience those things.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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How many days, I thought, have I had that were good days here since May 18th? \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My thoughts on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d have changed since February.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I believe everyday I live has been a good day in some way or other. Some days the fact that I survived till the next day is the best I can say.\u00c2\u00a0 Others have been filled with new friends, angels that have touched me in some special way, or even last night when someone said a kind word at a local Mexican eatery where I had to wear a mask coming and going.\u00c2\u00a0 There were lots of stares but many smiles as we made eye contact. We were even able to help jump start someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s car who, turned out, worked at MD Anderson in the benefits department.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So how many good days have you had in the last month?<\/span><\/p>\n

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I dare you to count them up and see what you come up with.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, I know there are not always smooth days and that sometimes we collapse from exhaustion at the end of the day. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope and suspect that, if you think about it, your days, too, will be filled with good days for the most part…even if there are financial, physical, or other worries that were part of those days.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I had a stressful day yesterday dealing with my insurance company.\u00c2\u00a0 My house flooded on July 3rd and it is still not liveable.\u00c2\u00a0 My agent had to step in and help with things to get the finance issues resolved with his agency.\u00c2\u00a0 He did a great job helping and I think I finally can get the contractor to start work on the house so it will be liveable when Pierce and I return – hopefully after the first of the year.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I also spent 12 hours at the hospital getting transfusions and having doctor appointments before going to dinner at seven and celebrating the time my friend, Annette, has spent with me these last nine days.\u00c2\u00a0 She goes home today and I will miss her. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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My wish for you today<\/em><\/strong> is that you make every day you can a good day and – when things get tough – you find that it was just part of a day when you were able to be here and enjoy life as much as possible.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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~ Joellen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I discovered I was sick in February of this year I recall having – what I called then – five good days between then and May 18th.\u00c2\u00a0 That may sound a bit negative, but there were really five days during that time when I could say that I felt great.\u00c2\u00a0 The others were not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}