TODAY I'M HAPPY WITH MYSELF BECAUSE ...

If anyone wants to add something they're happy with themselves about today, please feel free ... I thought it might give us some focus on those teeny weeny little achievements that make a big difference to how we feel ...

I'm happy with myself today because I drove my car to the mechanics and then I walked quite a long way to my local shopping centre, where I walked round a few shops, carrying a couple of light shopping bags. I then went into a cafe and had an all day breakfast of 2 eggs, 1 bacon, beans, 1 tomato and after that I managed another short walk around another shop ... and I did all that and only got a wee bit breathless.

I can't tell you how long it is since I've been able to walk and carry a bit of shopping, even carrying as little as a couple bananas and oranges would have me breathless and looking for somewhere to sit down. So today is cause for celebration for me. My breathing has been awful for the past couple of years and even with inhalers, it wasn't improving and I'd resigned myself to it staying that way and ending up in a wheelchair soon. I was never happy with the diagnosis of 'asthma', and I think I was right.

As my blood sugar is becoming more stable, my breathing is improving and therefore, my ability to exercise and of course ... the awful fatigue that was soooooooooooooooo depressing. So although perhaps diabetes itself can't be cured, many of the symptoms and complications can be reversed if we get that all important diagnosis in the first place.

I'd wholeheartedly encourage any newly diagnosed T2 diabetic not to give up hope of vast improvement in a short time, if you get your head round diet and testing. It's not a cure but it can give rapid and very real results.

Honestly, if I could skip in the air and click my heels together at the moment, that's what I'd do ... but for now ... I'm just so happy that I could walk around my local shops like a normal person again.

 

:lolno: Roy, I don't get angry ... I get irate. :wink:

So far my little four wheeled friend has had a new set of windscreen wipers, a new exhaust, a new battery, a new light bulb and it was still intermittently refusing to start until the battery was charged. After trying several mechanics I finally found an Auto-Electrician who sorted the problem out in 20 minutes right outside my door and he did it with a smile and a twinkle even though it was raining. It turned out to be a wire from the radio that was draining the battery. :roll: So today it's at the mechanic's having it's carburetter cleaned and decluttered and hopefully my little Punto will be set up for the winter and raring to go.

I love my car.

 

So ... where are all the other happy posters then? :eh:

Come oooooonnnnnn ... you must be happy about something today. :roll:

 

Awww thanks Anna ... I am a happy bunny and I'm appreciative because I know what it's like to take for granted, lose and regain something ... I suppose age teaches us that ... :roll:

Lady Penelope though? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I seem to remember she was blonde, slim and had a chauffeur called Parker? It's a long time since I've been blonde or slim or had a chauffeur come to that. But you've got me thinking now, maybe I should advertise for a Parker - although I'm not sure I could handle not being in the driving seat.

Sorry to hear you've got a rotten virus ... send it away! Tell it to begone! Banish it to oblivion! :wink: Just don't give it to your hubby ... you need him to pamper you. :wink:

 

... I have a roof over my head, a car, a job, bills paid, food in my belly - and I wish that for everyone ... I'm sure there's enough to go round if the distribution of wealth was sorted out a bit more fairly ... :think:

 

Today, I'm happy with myself because firstly, I woke up and secondly, the sun is shining and thirdly, I've just had my first cuppa of the day! Aaaaaaahhhh!