March 6-12 Weekly Recap: Gratitude!

What a week!  To be completely honest, my desire to get up and do anything other than go to work was limited.  I found myself daily just exhausted in the evening so much that I really felt ~blah~.  With that being said it's a new week!  However, there are always things to be grateful for and here we go, March 6-12, 2010:

First and foremost, I had three family members with medical issues this week and all three have fared well and are in the midst of recovering!  My brother Gregory has been battling Crohn's disease for seven or so years and underwent yet another surgery.  This one put him back to the use of an ostomy bag and hopefully in a few months they (the doctors) will be able to fix him up and reconnect what he has left and get him to a state of "normality" so he can live pain free.  My sister Jennifer had a scare as well that landed her in the ER and then a two day stay at the hospital.  Although I can't recall the name of what they discovered (something I had never heard of before) she was released on a super strong antibiotic for a week or so which should clear up her issue and that'll take care of that.  Then my dad (John) went in for eye surgery.  Although I haven't spoken to my mom or dad since his surgery on Thursday (I know!  Very bad of me but I was in my ~blahs~) I have heard through the grapevine that he is recovering well and hopefully his vision will be greatly improved!  Now if we can get him to get his hearing and dental taken care of !  Of course, it had been probably 30+ years since my father had been to a doctor so the chance of him going back is really about 1 in a million.  So my collective Gratefulness for all of this = that my family members are all well and that there are good doctors out there who help make peoples lives (from a medical standpoint) better!

Being as that really is the most important thing to me (family), that is all I want to mention this week.  When you have family, you have what is really the most priceless thing in the world.