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Amen, John! Or as Hamlet said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” I fancy myself a champion positive thinker, but what got me off on this morning's toot was finding myself alone last night. (My partner had spent the night in the hospital. She's back home now.) Alone last night, I suddenly realized how living with another provides an automatic, dominant set of activities. Alone is another story. I know that for so many of us on Connect being alone can be a horrendous burden––people for whom being alone is not a temporary thing (as it was for me). At the same time, the truth I found myself confronting was that before my PN, single or partnered, I'd always lived a life that was seasoned with alternative activities. PN has largely robbed me of those alternative activities. That's what I was feeling last night. I'd become aware of how much more difficult, with a chronic disease like PN, it is to keep your life active and "peopled." It takes deliberate work, doesn't it, John? Ah, the life lessons PN teaches us! 🙂 ––Ray (@ray666)