Thanks Andrew, I'm confident they will. The reassuring thing is that the daily balance of well-being & despair is still weighted in the former's favour.
Oh how I sympathise! I've been waiting a while for a hip replacement with increasing pain and incapacity. Then diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism, which may well necessitate having my "throat cut" to remove most of the parathyroid glands, which operation may well get in the way of the hip operation. Each operation should definitely make me feel better but in the meantime each condition is physically depressing and exhausting. Not to mention getting older and not being able to paint because of the pain. Nor finding the energy to read articles (even limited ones) from favourite writers like you! I assume we - and other fellow sufferers - will recuperate and find joy again on the horizon! In the meantime I wish you very well.
How rude of me not to reply sooner. I'm happy to report that my sequence of unfortunate misadventures was followed by a sequence of good things, so equilibrium is (at least for the moment - which is all we can ever really hope for) restored. My turn to wish you well. Your hurdles are, in truth, much higher than the ones I had to vault over or push through.
No problem! In fact I've since had the blessing of meeting people far worse off than me (not so good for them of course). Also I'm managing to live in the present, i.e. with less agony over the past or fear of the future. Moreover, I'm having my hip replaced on 10th July! What comes after comes after. The good thing about suffering of course is it giving one insight and sympathy into other people. Glad you're feeling better!
I like your honesty Mike. Hope things improve for you......
Thanks Andrew, I'm confident they will. The reassuring thing is that the daily balance of well-being & despair is still weighted in the former's favour.
Oh how I sympathise! I've been waiting a while for a hip replacement with increasing pain and incapacity. Then diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism, which may well necessitate having my "throat cut" to remove most of the parathyroid glands, which operation may well get in the way of the hip operation. Each operation should definitely make me feel better but in the meantime each condition is physically depressing and exhausting. Not to mention getting older and not being able to paint because of the pain. Nor finding the energy to read articles (even limited ones) from favourite writers like you! I assume we - and other fellow sufferers - will recuperate and find joy again on the horizon! In the meantime I wish you very well.
How rude of me not to reply sooner. I'm happy to report that my sequence of unfortunate misadventures was followed by a sequence of good things, so equilibrium is (at least for the moment - which is all we can ever really hope for) restored. My turn to wish you well. Your hurdles are, in truth, much higher than the ones I had to vault over or push through.
No problem! In fact I've since had the blessing of meeting people far worse off than me (not so good for them of course). Also I'm managing to live in the present, i.e. with less agony over the past or fear of the future. Moreover, I'm having my hip replaced on 10th July! What comes after comes after. The good thing about suffering of course is it giving one insight and sympathy into other people. Glad you're feeling better!
'What comes after comes after' are the wisest words to have appeared in Rarely Certain. Too bad it wasn't me who wrote them haha!