November Rain

Actually it hasn't been raining that much. I just liked the title. Heard the Guns n Roses song on TV last night and it stuck. (Although I'm sure it HAS been raining that much back home in Seattle, lol).

Well, I still can't really walk and I'm seeing another doc next week. What really sucks is that Bunny now has two weeks of vacation, since it's coming up on our anniversary (eeek, just realized it's in 5 days, oops, lol) and we would normally try to go somewhere. Like last year we were in America, the year before Amsterdam. But this year? Ah, we'll be right here in our glorious apartment due to my stupid effing knee & leg. I'll have to send him out to visit his friends & relatives so he can feel like he at least went somehwere. It's now been 6 weeks of incarceration with no end in sight. I've been outside ONCE since September. Bunny has to request his vacation time for 2009 this week and the big question is... will we go back to the US next year? There's no way for us to know because of the knee/leg situation, which is thus affecting other health issues in an evil cascade effect that could mean I can't fly next year.

Listen... the cliche of "at least you have your health" is TRUE. I'm not going to go into my whole health history on my blog, and this isn't all in relation to my problems, but let me just say... this Thanksgiving... if you can WALK, if you BREATHE, if you're not in a hospital dying, if you can bend over and even touch your knees, if you can plan a vacation to go hiking around the ruins in Greece next spring, if you don't keel over with seizures out of the blue, if you can eat most foods offered to you, if you can go to a restaurant because your ass actually fits into a chair that has arms, if you can see & hear and your organs work well enough to not keep you from doing what your friends can do... BE VERY THANKFUL. If you're healthy, you might think you're "normal", but what I've seen over the years, you're just so-far lucky. So far. Life can change in an instant. Your normal body that moves like it should, but which you think has too fat thighs could suddenly leave you wishing you ONLY had fat thighs. Accidents, bizarre health problems that no one else in your family has and that you could've never seen coming...can happen to you. At any age. At any time. Each day you have a body that does what you tell it to do, that can walk for hours Christmas shopping, that can chow down on Christmas cookies without insulin shots or worrying about the gluten/egg/peanut/wheat/etc content that might kill you or make you sick, that isn't hooked up to oxygen masks or colostomy bags or morphine pumps, that isn't in pain all day long, that can ride bicycles and climb stairs.... be thankful.

Does anyone remember that Baz Luhrman's "sunscreen" song? It was speech over background music and the version we mostly heard started with advice to the "ladies and gentlemen of the class of 1999."

In it he says: "Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone."

Among all the other parts, YES.

Update: Oh, I just found it on YouTube! Man, this really an excellent 'song'. And so true.



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