30 Days Of Thanks - Day 8!

I am participating in the 30 Days of Thanks by BoogieMum. What a great idea for making November a month of thanks instead of just a day!

(Even as I type this, I am knocking on wood.)

I am thankful for the health of our family. Good health can so easily be taken for granted, and good health can so easily be taken away.

I read in the paper about a mom-of-4 who was struck by lightning this week. Her mother was there and was together enough to perform CPR on this woman, and she lived. She is hurt and technically a quadriplegic, but she is alive, and there is hope that she can make a full recovery! In the blink of an eye she went from being a typical, suburban stay-at-home mother of 4 to a woman in a coma for 2 weeks who wakes up as a quadriplegic. Her words: She went from someone who took everyday things for granted to someone who longs for return to normalcy.

I am thankful for the health of our family and yet I pray, obsess, and watch my children for the slightest sign of sickness.

I am thankful that we have health insurance. Our benefits have been reduced and have become more expensive over the years but we still have health insurance. There is never a question of whether we can go to the doctor if one of our kids is sick. I am so very grateful for that too.

I have become a bit more health conscious this fall. As a family we are eating better, healthier things. I have started working out again in the age old (old age - ha!) effort to lose weight. This week I have been unable to work out because I have bronchitis and an ear infection. I feel like I have been coughing forever, but I went to the doctor, picked up my antibiotics and inhaler, and I am feeling so much better than I did this weekend.

It is not lost on me that our family has access to well checks for the kids, yearly physicals for DadOf3 and me. An ounce of prevention....

Anyway, since I have been so run down this week, I too long for a return for normalcy, our old routine, going to the park, going to the gym, playing outside and chasing my kids without wheezing. Nope I didn't get struck by lightning (thank goodness) but I will be less likely to take these everyday things for granted when I am better.