Hello everyone I hope those of my followers who celebrate Thanksgiving had a good one, I had planed to do this post yesterday but after another I just gave up if it wasn’t the computer being a bitch it was interruptions of one sort or another.
This morning it is wet outside with according to my weather app 100% chance of rain today, I am wearing shorts so not a cold day nor is it hot.
I have been thinking about how far I have come in a year, this time last year I couldn’t do so many things, often needing the wheelchair when we went out and now I don’t. I am back to walking pretty much everywhere I do, however, get annoyed when people say that’s good but you can better. Why oh why do they feel the need to add that bit.
I can also now shower myself again, dress myself and do the everyday things a person does. I still have trouble cutting up meat and other food items to eat and have to ask for help.
I have always managed to blog and write to pen pals these two things gave me a reason to get up of a morning and carry on. Another motivation to get up each day Monday to Friday was/is Sam accompanying Sam up to wait for the transport drive each day is something I look forward to.
You know what else I can do that a year ago I couldn’t do, write as in hold a pen and write word on paper, I could manage to print a few words but writing as in cursive writing but now I can. Ok there still little chance other people can read it but I can and that means something, because let’s be honest here my handwriting has always been a messy near unreadable scribble I have been told so many times.
Ok that’s all that has come to mind this morning.
Jo-AnneRamplings 
Dearest Jo-Anne,
Congratulations on your year in progress.
That is a lot what you can do now on your own, compared to last year.
I’ve picked up embroidery, which I had with me after Christmas to Florida while on vacation. Trying to put it in the embroidery ring was impossible… No power in my fingers. Did lay down to rest for one hour and felt mighty proud when I managed after that. It is the little things that give us joy.
Hugs,
Mariette
Yes it has been a good year for me and the small things we manage to do can make us so happy
AMEN! Just had to call Pieter to help me get up… Sat totally squatted down for getting my brown block–heel shoes out of the closet in hallway. Couldn’t get up on my own… My knees are so weak and my back (stent–graft area) was heavily protesting. Makes you think about movements.
Doesn’t it make you feel awful when you can’t get up off the floor without help, a curse that comes to many of us , pain sucks