Being Thankful

The cold that struck me last weekend has really stuck in and had me laid low for many days, sleeping the clock round on more than one occassion. I've trapped a nerve in my neck and am stooped like Quasimodo. The Christmas lights failed. I haven't opened my packet of Christmas cards let alone written them. The telephone bill arrived. I've a to-do list a mile long. I missed the gym Xmas party because of the flu. I am the luckiest girl in the world because all that is trivial, will pass and is all to the backdrop of a loving home with enough spare change to indulge in some disposable festive fancies. Not everyone is so lucky and at a time when the news brings home the troubled lives of others, there for the Grace of God go we.

Comments

[Pete]

indeed not my cousins son has Leukaemia and was let out for Christmas and then had to go back.

My sympathies though I was voiceless for a month and coughed so much I pulled something so that when i coughed I was in agony. But as you rightly say it passed.

ok so I moaned a bit/lot!!

[Marjory]

Oh Lordy! So we should be trying to make YOU laugh instead of waiting for you to do the honours for us...

Colds-wise, all I can ever recommend is Zinc and Vitamin C. Trapped nerves get better after paracetamol, ice packs and rest. Apart from that, yeah, I'd be feeling gruesome too...

[mum]

Don,t give her to much sympathy she,s not used to it

[Beki]

Pah! See what happens when Mum is let loose on the laptop!

Don't listen her, mothers don't always know best - more sympathy please!

[Marjory]

Look - you got your Mum onto the laptop. Mine won't go near the computer back in Darlo at all (except to send me pictures of the cat, and this generally involves a number of international phonecalls where she wants to know what she should do next...). Plus she thinks I am a genius because I can switch off and reboot said computer each time it crashes. Encourage your Mum!

Sympathy is something I'm crap at. I never pitch it correctly. So... if you go into the kitchen and make yourself a really good cup of tea now (and choose yourself a chocolate Hobnob while you're at it), could you pretend that I did it? :)

[Attila the Mom]

Geez, I hope you feel better!! xoxox