Day 5 - Thankful, Excited and Inspired

Our topic of discussion today is what I am thankful for, excited about or inspired by...I would like to touch base on each of these; however, it is possible to really say EVERYTHING that fits within these categories.

Thankful. This is a big word. I'm thankful for life, my family and friends, the life my family has given me and tools needed for me to progress in my own life. I'm thankful that I have clothes on my back and a house to live in, I am terribly crushed by the poor families that have lost everything in the Hurricane that recently hit. No one should have to deal with something like this and I do everything I can to help those in need. But health wise, I am thankful for my doctors. The doctor I went to see in CT, for knowing about a specialist in Boston. I'm thankful for Millis and his team, for the nurses at the hospital that was SO AMAZING! I could go on but I don't think it's really necessary.

Excited. I'm excited to be able to walk without pain, to jog, to run...for any activities that I won't need pain medications for. I'm excited for our upcoming trip to northern NY with our friends for my birthday weekend and to do something different. I'm excited to see where things will start going, changes.

Inspired. This is a big one and one major word that got me through my surgery. I owe a large part of my inspiration to the one girl I connected with before surgery. She had just had her first surgery and was about 2 months post when I found her on a Yahoo Hip Women. I asked her so many questions and really figured out exactly what I was in for. No matter how terrible recovery was she always seemed to 'have it together'. She was such an inspiration that I can do this, I can get through it. No matter how bad it is, it WILL get better. Because of that, I wanted to be that same inspiration, which is half the reason why I do this blog also. I want to be inspiration to many people and I can only be that by doing things like this and support others. My roommate in the hospital for my second surgery (her first) was a day behind me, which is recovery time is a long time. I kept telling her it wasn't bad and she can do it, just push through it. I wanted to be her inspiration.

These are all major feelings/thoughts/emotions that I deal with and have been dealing with for quite some time now. There's not a day that goes by that something above does not go through my head!