THANKFUL

 

Frankly I'm not in a celebratory mood this holiday season. 2022 has been a stressful, sucky, and expensive year for me.

However on this Thanksgiving I must remind myself of the many things for which I am thankful.

For one, the recent hurricane did no damage to me or my property; this seems miraculous since it came ashore here.

Also I am one of the few people I know that never came down with even a mild case of Covid. I attribute this to the fact I wore a mask overlong. The reason being to hide my bandaged face.

And I am indeed thankful that despite the dermatologist's prognosis I didn't end up with a disfiguring scar although my face had a pit that was deep and wide. And I refused to pay a plastic surgeon for stitches because this was sprung on me directly after surgery; I had not budgeted for this! Yes, I now have a scar on my face but it's so slight you can barely see it.

However this did not happen by magic! I never allowed my wound to dry up. I kept it constantly moist with petroleum jelly. I bandaged up before bedtime and before going out. So now I don't need any stink'n plastic surgeon!

Often this area still stings and pinches, but I'm told this is a positive thing. The nerve endings are returning.

After paying over $2000 in all at a different Dermatology Clinic the latest biopsy on my nose thankfully proved benign. However the chronic itch remains and can't be explained.  I should have just bought a tube of Cortisone cream and saved myself a whole lot of money. But I realize that chances should never be taken with the possibility of a skin cancer!

Those expensive blood tests revealed a high hemoglobin count. Since I've never been a smoker I was told this is due to an excess of vitamins.

Yes I do take lots of nutritional supplements. That's the reason my hair has grown back! If I stopped, people would be calling me cue ball and melon head behind my back. Now I'm thankful they don't have the opportunity!

Plus I take a lot of these supplements to keep my acid reflex under control. The alternative is an agony akin to torture! It's as if someone shoved a flame-thrower down my throat and duct-taped it to my body! Prescription medication has side effects as well as long term consequences, no thank you!

The cooler air has returned! (Ahhh) Hope it lasts thru spring or at least until I can afford to have my old and dead air-conditioner replaced.

And of course I'm thankful that sanity prevailed in the recent Midterm Elections, in many states anyway.