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Teeth, own or false, dentist costs, extractions etc.
Aging Well | Last Active: Jun 12, 2023 | Replies (68)Comment receiving replies
@lacy2, @loribmt, @artscaping Ok, June!!!!! Here you go......No sage advice from me, just facts and personal growth learned from the many yucky experiences that just keep on coming! So, what to do? You think it through with calm, clarity, prayer, thought and determination to control the next steps taken. Whatever they are. That's how we stop the emotional decisions, or the poor me feelings, or the I can't do this thinkng or whatever the negatives are that grab us by the throat and keep up tied up in knots for years! Keep us from being the best we can be! Keep us from being happy!!!!
You know, I'm constantly amazed I am happy!!!! Not much reason to be, actually, if I dwell on it or think about it. But, I trust my Lord is in charge of my life. I've given it back to Him, and do it over and over, because I keep thinking I can solve problems I really can't. I can think it through with His help and arrive at positve, yes, positive decisions.
Otherwise. I have no way of winning this battle of life or thinking clearly or solving problems or making decisions. I can't do it all by myself.
Lacy, I have no husband. No siblings in my life or other family. I have a lovely, wonderful, brilliant, totally disabled son, a lawyer, who's lived a very difficlut 20 years of life of constant pain and loss......my fiance died in car accident a few years ago, cared 12 years for altzheimer mother, watched her die.....have dealt with gobs of pain and illness myself and I WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY IT ALL!!! WILL NOT!
So, we figure out how we can be in control of these things, take control and beat it all
For crying out loud, it's hard work, takes forever it seems, but once I truly let go of the negative junk and determined to step by step be positive, one thought at a time.......AMAZING!
There really are good things around me. Amazing. Good people who are all around. No, not available to listen to me and my sadness, but happy to see me with a smile. EVEN if the smile has to be created for them......then, it's truly special 'cause it is just for them! And, do that enough, think one positive thought, do one positive thing, take one positive or step toward doing what needs to be done.....it is a wonderful feeling and life takes on a brand new meaning, a brand new color!
I realized I don't have many days left on this earth, and the saying I've heard and never took seriously.....you don't get a do-over in life....took on new meaning as my body worsened.....So, I had a number of very serious chats with myself about my reality....REALITY of my life. It belongs to me and I do have control over my decisions, with God's help those are good decisions leading to good days. One breath at a time......
Blessings to you, my friend. One positive blessing, one step in life to make it better.....elizabeth
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@lacy2, @artscaping, @lorimt Lacy, forgot to mention one of the most improtant things in my life that you've already done!!!!!
Mayo Connect!!!!!!
This is a marvelous group of folks who have and are actually saving lives.....I am one! I began working with Mayo docs several years ago, after virtually hitting bottom as far as my health care is concerned. I needed serious help and couldn't find it in community health any longer. I was sobbing, in tears and had only one place I thought might be able to help me....Mayo Clinic. So, I called and made an appt.
That led me to genuine help in every area of my health. And, now my son is getting this same kind of real, caring, knowledgeable help. AND, Lacy, I was told about Connect, that I might find some folks that understand.....
Well, look at this. What a gift from above for me and others through the years who were or felt alone in their journey to better health and life. I'm getting healthier, Lacy. Good diagnoses, not necessarily good diseases but accurate diagnoses and treatment and caring, genuine help. I thank each and every person on Connect for guiding me to a more postive, healthy life. I'm not alone anymore.
I am not alone.
Just to let you know, these are good folks who are experiencing many things and emotions you and I feel. So, we're not alone. Many of them actually have real knowledge from experienceing and one day, you may well be one of them helping so many be the best possible.
blessings, again and again. elizabeth
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HI Elizabeth; thank you for sharing how you have gotten through what sounds like an abundance of pain, suffering, caring for others, and how you did it.... I admire you. For some reason I approach things much differently.... and I do not have the courage you had or have. It is painful walking in my shoes and making the decisions I do but it is the way I am now, and although I do believe in a 'Creator' I do not share the same sense of purpose you have, wish I did, and I just am in awe of people like you who can cope, accept and overcome. J.