Update

• Yesterday was a really good day. I had energy and got a lot done.
• Today may possibly be a good day too since I am up early and feel pretty good!
• Today I HAVE to get to the drug store since I am now out of necessary pills. I would like, also, to get some food into the apartment but I am not completely out of that.
• I wrote the first three bullets yesterday but OD would not let me save them
• Much to my surprise, today was a good, relatively-high energy day too. I am thinking that maybe I had two days in succession like this because I had two days where my back hardly hurt at all! All due to physical therapy, I am pretty sure. I find it a bit sad to think that after the surgery, I will have lost a certain amount of strength in my legs and back yet again , but I am cheered to think that PT will bring it back. I am wondering how long after the surgery I can start the PT by myself…
• I paid a few bills and went to Target and got a few more items of food.
• I also bought an artificial wreath and a gadget to hang it over the front door. It is not a green one but a brown one which, at this time, suits my life better, I think!
• My Christmas tree is a Charlie Brown tree with one ornament. I also have a figure of Charlie Brown to put under it. This tree was given to Fred by one of his daughters and his son-in-law. His daughters often gave him Charlie Brown gifts because he had a bald head like Charlie. I haven’t put the tree up yet but all I have to do is continue cleaning off the coffee table …
• OK, let’s see if this saves…

An emotion is only an emotion.

It’s just a small part of your whole being.

You are much more than your emotion.

An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm.

If you’re aware of that, you won’t be afraid of your emotions.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. — Marcus Aurelius