What brought you joy today?

Yesterday was spent at urgent care with my husband. We had an awesome experience in regards to the quality of care, and the care of the staff. A very thorough doctor; he'd be a great new primary care for me but he only does the urgent care practice ;(( The upshot of it all is my husband had gallstones, and surgery will be soon. But it wasn't an emergency yesterday, so we can plan a bit for it, thank goodness.

It brought me joy to hear the concern from my bonus son, his girlfriend, and our neighbor.
Ginger

Bring able to relax.
My grandson.
My husband.
My younger daughter and her kids I called.
I spoke to KU about another opinion. I felt valued and she had done really good feedback
Going for a drive.

1. Thank you note from a friend.
2. Receiving funny and sweet heartfelt letters from a friend’s kids who became my pen pals 4 years ago when my cancer returned. Priceless!
3. Watching a hummingbird enjoy nectar.
4. Putting together a puzzle passed on to me by a friend.
5. A phone call from an out-of-state friend.

Waking up
Grandson
Daughters
Grandchildren

took a friend out to lunch who recently lost her husband
spending time with youngest daughter
talking and laughing about kids growing up
talking to God every night

Hello @director and welcome to Mayo Connect. I appreciate you sharing about what brings you joy.

As this is your first post on Connect, I would enjoy hearing about what brought you here. Are you a cancer survivor?

Music brings me Joy.

Listening, playing, or both?

I inherited my grandfather's classic-music albums from the 1950s and 60s, and I love putting one of them on the turntable and listening, pops, scratches, and all. We lost him in 1977, but when I play them I feel like he's sitting with me.

I also inherited by grandfather's love for playing classical music, and now that I can sit up again after recovering from the cancer damage to my spine, that brings me joy almost every day.

What brought me joy today?
Feeling awesome the day after chemo with two new targeted to my cancer drugs, and sudden ability to swallow fluid and even creamy soup which represents the first food by mouth since like Memorial Day. So today I’m joyful and what’s more., hopeful. If I feel strong enough and pain free enough to metal detect the woods for colonial era artifacts, I’ll be even more joyful. My last attempt was a let down due to spinal tumor pain.
So I’m joyful and also grateful.

What gives me joy.
1. Enjoying food from our garden.
2. Played golf yesterday.
3. Went for a hike.
Three things I thought I would never do after my surgery 6 months ago.
( I had kidney removed)