The Good News Thread

[The Velvet Curtain]

The Velvet Curtain WOW!!! So well said! "... take pleasure in what you have ..."

It is so easy to forget or take for granted all the wonderful things we enjoy, the technology to enable this forum and for us across the globe to know each other did not exist 30 years back. The ability to have live video chat with multiple members of our family at the same time is bearly 10 years old but we take it as an automatic right.
We need to marvel at how lucky we are compared to everyone who has died before us and be thankful.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

It is so easy to forget or take for granted all the wonderful things we enjoy, the technology to enable this forum and for us across the globe to know each other did not exist 30 years back. The ability to have live video chat with multiple members of our family at the same time is bearly 10 years old but we take it as an automatic right.
We need to marvel at how lucky we are compared to everyone who has died before us and be thankful.

So well said!
I am always grateful, for every thing and one around me, every day. I feel so extremely lucky to be where I am, I'm thankful.

 

[TastyReuben]

Not sure where to put this, so I will put it here. Me having a similar view partly explains why I am so content with my situation.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/y8CU32_89nM?si=P36t3AMEQvern7ef

I tell MrsT some version of this a few times every week. She’s a natural pessimist/complainer, and I’m a natural optimist/appreciator (opposites attract, no?) - she went shopping yesterday with me and was moaning about the condition of the avocados, and I pointed out that a king 500 years ago would have marveled at the variety of selection available in an average supermarket year-round.

Then he’d have eaten his first Oreo and dropped right over dead from the massive sugar and chemical shock. But he’d have marveled first, that’s my point. His marveling.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Monty Python's "Life of Brian" :

Always look on the bright side of life.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Good News:
It's been just about 3 years since my dearest Husband "went down" as we're calling it and thankfully had a terrific Electrophysiologist, who implanted a dual ICD to save his life.
Since that time, DH was unable to drive and I have been taking us everywhere we've needed to go.
Just recently, DH has finally been able to drive the car again, not often, but he has been. In fact he just left our house to pick our mail at the Post Office, by himself, this is a huge hurtle that he has gone over!!!

 

[JAS_OH1]

Good News:
It's been just about 3 years since my dearest Husband "went down" as we're calling it and thankfully had a terrific Electrophysiologist, who implanted a dual ICD to save his life.
Since that time, DH was unable to drive and I have been taking us everywhere we've needed to go.
Just recently, DH has finally been able to drive the car again, not often, but he has been. In fact he just left our house to pick our mail at the Post Office, by himself, this is a huge hurtle that he has gone over!!!

I'm in a similar camp with my DH's driving but for different reasons. He always had poor eyesight but in the past 6 years it had gotten to the point where I wouldn't allow him to drive at night or for long distances, and though he resisted at first, I think he was actually relieved that I insisted on driving when we went on trips or to evening events. Last year he had lens replacement surgery and they fixed his astigmatism, corrected his vision, removed cataracts, and fixed his presbyopia that we all get as we grow older, and now he sees better than I do and his vision will always be perfect. I don't worry about him driving further than 20 miles from home anymore or driving at night!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

15 months ago she was bitten and left seriously ill with pneumonia amongst other infections. Months and months of antibiotics and back and forth from the vets. 12 months ago, she was given weeks to live (benign liver tumour) and has been in palliative care since. I didn't think I'd see her in June when a visited the UK. We didn't think she'd make it to her 10th birthday. She's surprised everyone including the vets.