What Are You Thankful For?

[KP the nut]

I am thankful people appreciate me.
I am thankful I am starting to believe I can like myself, maybe even love the inner me

 

[amethist]

Essential Oils and Aromatherapy.

Goodness knows which planet hubby would be on tonight without it.

 

[You can get through it]

I am grateful for the sight of a rainbow reaching out of a steel blue and pink sky while the sun was setting.

For new medication to help overcome the affects of my cancer operation and the renewed energy it is giving me.

The distance of time and the insight PTSD has given me now I have come through the passages of hell and back toward the light.

The best to all looking in,

Steve

 

[Tinyflame]

Steve- I just had an experience twice with rainbows yesterday and today! :)

 

[Crl1983]

Coffee :coffee:

 

[Froggie]

I'm thankful that my therapies and meds for PTSD has helped me put a distance with fear. I was surprised how serene I feel when I was told that I have colon cancer and will be wearing a stoma sac in permanence.

For new medication to help overcome the affects of my cancer operation and the renewed energy it is giving me.

Steve

Steve, I would like to have the name of that medication and it was used for what : radio therapy or chimeo

 

[You can get through it]

Hi Froggie

It is good to know you are coping well and that you continue to make good progress, I had an operation for Gullet (Oesophagus) cancer and because my stomach is now smaller and stretched to a different position I had problems processing my food properly by not processing fats as I should so I started on Creon and I am now getting much more the energy from the little I am able to eat which is real freedom as I have been struggling to keep weight on for so long. Sorry I can’t help you with a wonder drug for the effects of chemo or radio; only the distance of time can help you through that, even the same type of chemo drug affects people in various different ways.

You appear to be like me in that after experiencing PTSD anything else life throws at you can never feel any worse than the effects of PTSD trauma because we have already been to hell, but once back from that place I believe we have been gifted with insight and are much stronger to deal with something as big as cancer, and it’s after effects in ways perhaps we would not have been able prior to the effects of PTSD.

I wish you well on your continued journey,

Steve

 

[KP the nut]

The new chat room, so funny.

 

[Deleted member 6617]

The sun is shining today....OH Thank you!

 

[Froggie]

You appear to be like me in that after experiencing PTSD anything else life throws at you can never feel any worse than the effects of PTSD trauma because we have already been to hell, but once back from that place I believe we have been gifted with insight and are much stronger to deal with something as big as cancer, and it’s after effects in ways perhaps we would not have been able prior to the effects of PTSD.

How well said, I was starting to think that something was wrong with me not reacting like others with the diagnosis. I'm glad that I got to meet you.

 

[You can get through it]

Froggie
What many people who suffer from PTSD have not yet come to realize is once you have mastered your digagnosis you can turn all those destructive effects into a positive weapon; yes you will have the odd relapse and lose the odd battle, but you can still win the war, I know becuase I am living proof of that! PTSD and cancer are the same in as much as they both eat away at you. Remember your mind can be your worst enrmy or your best friend if you let it, so use the power of insight gained through PTSD to do some real battle. For me It's not all about how long I have, but the journey that counts, if we don't have quality of life whats the point in living?
Steve

 

[KP the nut]

I'm thankful my H was here last night to find our missing dog. The dog somehow scaled our fence and H was able to slide up one of the fence panels to find the dog.