At my age and income level, lists like this are more a useful reminder for me, for use IF a day ever shows up when I have any extra $ to spend frivolously!
What with deductibles, copays, over-the-counter health care stuff, and trying to live on disability income, in a political climate which is getting harsher and harsher for folks like me... I'm not counting on a windfall.
Ah, well. Sometimes it feels like Scrooge will never get the visits from the three spirits in my lifetime. I often feel crushed by a heavy weight not of my own making. When did I ask to get sick? or for medical care to be so expensive, or for the medical insurance system I live under to exclude me from the middle-class economy?
Anyway, another list. I've had at least three major diagnoses in my own Christmases past. One was SLE on December 24, 1985. One was diabetes on December 26, 2008. And one was uterine cancer on December 16, 2009.
Christmas gratitude: I'm still here :)
Thank you, Santa, doctors, scientists, taxpayers, family, friends, luck, and my personal loving God. What a beautiful gift.
Happy holidays to everyone!
Christmas sphere, photographer Idea Go
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