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Thanks For Giving ________________________________________________________________

I LOVE Thanksgiving. I enjoy cooking. Feeding my family. Inviting people over who don't have anywhere else to go. It's my favorite holiday.

So it really stinks that I'm still recovering from my oral surgery! I had my followup appointment today, and I'm healing well. One extraction site has an ulcer, but she said it's not a big deal. The numbness in my chin is not normal, but as long as it keeps improving, it shouldn't be permanent. I still get run down, and they said I should be taking it easy.

So what did I do? My Thanksgiving dinner shopping. Michael wanted to do it for me, but he's been crazy busy at work. Two hours later, I got everything! From Gerkins to the wine. Then it was off to Walmart to shop for my Emily's birthday tomorrow.

I took a Vicodin during the dinner shopping. It quit working. By the time we got home, I was really hurting, so I went to lie down with a heat pack on my stiff jaw.

Riley baked some pumpkin bread while Michael and I were gone. While I was lying down, she made Spinach Dip, and now she's peeling potatoes for me. I'm dying from the guilt.

While I was at the oral surgeon today, we ran into a friend we haven't seen in about six months. We didn't recognize her. She is recovering from breast cancer and the chemo had taken all her hair, even her eyelashes and her fingernails are all falling off. We talked for quite a while. She's still running her kids to skiing, hockey, and every other thing. She is literally too weak to get up out of bed, and her kids are asking her to go to the store for something they need for school the next day. Here I have my kids who fall all over themselves helping me whenever I need it and with a happy heart. This poor woman has cancer, and she can't catch a break. She wasn't even complaining.

I'm so thankful for my family... So incredibly thankful.

posted by Terri at 11/26/2008 11:31:00 PM >3 comments

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