Lessons learned about recovery from recovery

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Don’t feel the need to take the dog on all dog walks.
Be careful when you wish for unlimited blocks of time to sit home in your pjs watching tv
Thrush is good for weight loss
Keep track of your dreams -they’re especially fun when you’re on pain meds
Choose very carefully the friends who get to see during the first 2 days – they will have the opportunity to construct colorful stories about you as well as decide who gets to hear them
Feeling deeply – in all ways – is a blessing. Be grateful.
Bring an audio recorder – they tell you important things in condensed form at rather inopportune times (you’re stressed or totally drugged)
Also be grateful they don’t tell you everything that’s going to happen – like really grateful
Celebrate the small stuff!

Hope you find these fun and possibly useful later on when you read them. Life is a ride – an adventure around most turns. Enjoy it! Learn from it, and be blessed.

I got this message from your teacher Ms. Suzanne today – couldn’t agree more – your abilities to write and read have EXPLODED in the last couple months!! It’s been SOOO FUN to watch you, celebrate you, and be some part of it!!