As we all know, Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks for what we have.
Health. Love. Family. Shelter.
Health.
Last week, my mom sent me an email that really shocked me and made me thankful my family and I are alive and healthy.
She wrote,
“The woman who runs our heart center has terminal brain cancer, just discovered Tuesday. She is in her early or mid-50s. I met with her last Friday and she was having trouble finishing her sentences and was complaining about it, so we were laughing and I said this had happened to me recently, just chalk it up to fatigue. On Monday she was meeting with another director and it got really bad, couldn’t get any words out at all and was getting upset, so they took her to the ER, did a brain scan for stroke and found two tumors, which they removed Tuesday and by yesterday the bad news was out, it’s a deadly cancer. Pretty sad.”
Sad indeed!
Wow, what a wake up call for me and everybody else, for that matter, who wakes up each morning without pain or disease. Without the need for assistance in bathing, dressing and eating.
It’s amazing how we take our health for granted.
So today and every day I am grateful for my health. For my family’s health.
How easy we forget how precious and fragile life is.
Be thankful for what you do have.
I am.
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Great post. In the last month, I heard of 3 friends or family members dying in their 40s and 50s. It is a wake up call indeed.
Thanks! You just never know when a person’s time is up. Some people get a crappy deck of cards when it comes to health. Enjoy each day we’re alive is what I say.