My bed....

After seeing on the news that nursing home in Texas flooded and those poor elderly patients in wheelchairs with water up to their waists, I'm grateful for my job at the nursing home this weekend. I'm grateful my spouse is well enough yet to be at home and not in a nursing home, I'm grateful for my bff for living with us on weekends and being with my spouse while I work, I'm grateful for a lot right now.

Having a safe home...having a lot of free time to do what I like...the ability to enjoy and appreciate life, even when it's difficult...having a whole and healthy body and mind.

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Spending time with my love 😍

Thankful for a very productive meeting with a Senator's staff with a positive out come that takes stress off my shoulders.

Not happy about having to go, but thankful for the amazing ER staff, fast treatment and finding a Dr that had "gotten into" Stinging Nettles before and knew exactly what I was dealing with (none of the nurses had heard of it before)... thankful she knew my Lupus causes issues with my healing, and she knew exactly what to give me to help. Especially after I had tried many OTC remedies and nothing helped.
Thankful I might be able to sleep tonight.

My BFF was recently diagnosed with Lupus.... she kept having serious attacks of shingles, getting them in her eyes, mouth, nose, ears, to finally all over, as if she had chicken pox, but it was far worse than that. And she's got three other complicated health conditions which get worse when her Lupus flares up.

I'm really glad you got the help you needed at ER, Kenna. Lupus is a very serious condition. :rrose:

I'm so sorry to hear about your dear friend. Lupus is, sadly, different for each patient, so it makes it harder to find effective treatment...and sometimes takes years of learning to cope with it. My heart goes out to her and her supporting friends and family. I highly recommend signing up for the national and local Lupus support groups and their regular, Lupus specific news letters. I have found several articles that help me talk in depth to my providers. (I too have suffered years from the shingles. I'm so sorry!)

And my hint for the day...don't get into a batch of Stinging Nettle weeds, as Lupus makes it harder to heal from skin damage.

Oh yeah....sooooo thankful I have full coverage medical insurance now, after 4 years of none (don't get me started on the politics of that), and my pharmacy copays for now are only $1.20 each.

I'm so thankful for the coverage that I don't care it is an 80/20 plan.

A really amazing resolution to a RotoRooter disaster. They kissed our asses today.

Every.single.thing. Even the tough stuff. Maybe especially the tough stuff.


Katniss~~

Thankful to have two days off in a row. I swear these 12 hour days are kicking my old ass

That today was a peaceful day abd the first in a week that didn't have noisy contractors at the house all day.

The covered back porch

very thankful all my peeps and their pets in Florida are alive, safe and well after Hurricane Irma's passage through there was over ... if Irma had not shifted over to the west part of Florida there at the last minute, I think I would be very sad right now

** skipping out of thread doing the happy stone butch dance **
:)

Her in every way