Through My Eyes
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Letting Go Letting go has never been easy for me, but I�m learning to accept my limitations. Mom is happier than she�s been in a very long time. She�s well fed and cared for. Dad and I are calmer and happier too. It�s been hard to let her go, to not have her with us day in and day out, but we know we�ve done the right thing. I�m learning to pull back on my commitments too. To decide what things are really important and what things aren�t. Learning to make time for me to read, to scrapbook, to knit, and to must plain relax. It�s okay not to have something to do every day. I�m also learning admit that there are things I just can�t do, like take care of the garden. I love having all the roses and other plants, but the only thing I�m really good about is cutting the roses. Everything else just causes my eyes to tear up, my nose to run, and my skin to itch. So what�s my solution� call our landscaper and have her crew come take care of it twice a month. That way our neighbor can just do the clean-up in between. My weight is another thing I�m having a hard time letting go of. It�s been much harder this time around to lose the weight, but I�ve come to a turning point I think. I know I need help, so Wednesday night I�m going to a seminar at Cottage Hospital on Bariatric Surgery to see what my options are. Hopefully I�ll have a clearer sense of what direction to go. |