My Curious Mind

As we are getting closer to saying goodbye to 2015, I am getting excited to begin a new year.   This year has been filled with a lot of joy and some sadness.  We said goodbye  last week to one of our beloved family members.  He was an inspiration to a lot of people and left us all with a gift.  The gift of cherishing every day with our family and friends.   He was my niece and nephew's grandpa on the other side of the family.  He will be greatly missed by his wife, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.   His funeral was attended by many friends of the community and I can see him in my mind smiling down from heaven.

Today is a special day for my dad and me.  It would have been my mother's 81st birthday.  If she were here I would tell her that I have discovered a lot about her own health issues that took her life.  She had many problems and in a journey to facilitate  my own wellness I have unlocked the key to some of her medical problems.  We can not go back, but I was able with the help of some terrific doctors and nurses to figure out what some of her medical issues were caused by.

We are genetically inclined to follow the path of our parent's health problems.  However,  with the advancement in medicine we now can help prevent problems that arise from those genetics.  I set out on a journey in September of 2014 to find out why I was feeling so badly.  It has now been a little over a year and I have learned so much about my own body.  I had some more test done recently which unleashed some medical problems about myself.  I feel now that I am able to become a healthy whole person again.  They are simple fixes yet they had the potential to end my life.  I am so glad that I sought the help of some integrative medical specialist that took the time to really listen to my symptoms and do some test that are not normally done at routine physicals.  I previously had some doctors that just wanted to treat the symptoms.  My curious mind and quest to find out what was wrong with my mother led me to these integrative medical professionals.  I got to thank them yesterday for changing my life.  They have left me very grateful and I wish that they had been around for my mother.  We believe that we could have made her quality of life much better.

Women's health issues are so over looked and I am glad that I never lost hope of finding someone that specialized in the whole HTP axis.  I was starting to feel better and now with the completion of the rest of my wellness plan the new year before me is going to be even better. 

Happy Birthday Mother!
Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth:)

Who Are You?

I awoke in the middle of the night with a strange thought about who reads my blog.  I don't really know how many views I get a day or perhaps a month.  I probably am followed by what is known as  browser robots.  So, who am I really writing to.  I started the blog in 2009 and my intention was to journal about Laney.  I always liked writing and Laney opened the door for my journal.  She gave me adventures to write about and an outlet for stress.    She has been a great gift to our family and is more than often the topic of our conversations.  She has put a smile on our face many days when we needed comfort.   So who am I writing to, other than myself ?

If  I publish this blog post it will be number 400.  Out of the 400, there are 324 that I published and a few that I lost to cyber land.  I never dreamed that I would be writing for this long.   Every time I get on the blog site  I see Laney's sweet face looking at me.  She is resting right now beside me now.  I wonder if she is known by people or just by browser robots.

I have spent countless hours letting go of stress by writing and practicing gratitude.  I have received 19 comments over the past 6 years.  The last one was in November of 2014.  I wonder in the vast world who is reading my blog.  Who are you ? 

Life is full of uncertainty and social media has allowed us to communicate with people all over the world.  So am I really writing to myself?  The stats that are posted on my stat page are coming from around the world or perhaps here in the US.  I guess it does not matter who reads the blog.  What does matter is that I have enjoyed every minute of it.  I hope that if people are reading that perhaps I have helped them in some small way.  Perhaps they smiled at something I blogged or started their own journal. 

Well here it goes I'll click publish for number 400.  If you read this have a blessed day filled with smiles and flowers.  

Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth:)