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This Thanksgiving holiday I felt more grateful than ever before. I didn't do anything special. I spent the day with my family. Thinking about last years Thanksgiving, I was in the hospital and my family brought me turkey and potatoes. What we went through this past year is crazy, but if you would ask me if I could do it all over again I would tell you, YES! Not sure what my husband or family would say.  I am so blessed that I received one heart on March 10th and another one on the 15th. There are so many people waiting for donors to save their lives. I received two donors within a week. Whenever I am sitting or lying and I hear my heart beating, I thank my donor and their family for saying yes to organ donation. I believe that I am still here to share my story and to inspire other's that are struggling. I never wanted to say this because I thought it was weird to say, but I full heartedly feel that way. I haven't really been telling what I have been feeling here and there. I mean I have been telling mostly everything but just a little I haven't. Now on I am going to say what I feel.
Great news I haven't missed my pills ever since Tuesday. I put up posted notes everywhere I normally go that says "PILLS" and I put a reminder 12 hours apart on my telly. Sometimes we slack in the things we do. When we are honest the things that we are slacking in, come back in our faces a lot quicker than when we lie to ourselves or others. This reminds me of this saying...Are you honest with your dealings with your fellow men? Even with yourself? I am awful at lying to others, but to myself it is much easier.
A saying for sunday school...I am thankful for taxes, this means I am employed; I am thankful a big heating bill, this means I am warm; I am thankful for my clothes are a little snug, this mean I am not hungry; I am thankful for a shadow, this means I am outside; I am thankful for  gutter leaking, driveways to be shoveled, and leaky pipes this mean I have a home and it when on and on. Be grateful for the small and simple things. Try to be an optimistic rather than a pessimist.

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