Thankfulness on a Tuesday

Chapter 346

My aunties are making me thankful . . . That I am not them. One is dealing with chronic insomnia. You do not want to be in the same state as me, if I am not getting enough sleep. You perhaps can go like you are still in college, but David can’t. Nope. I need a minimum of eight, preferably nine house of sleep a night, and on special occasions I get 10! Without my sleep, I am a growling short-tempered explosive human bomb waiting to go off.

My other auntie is in the hospital after a fall and a broken hip and now a total hip replacement. I stay as far from hospitals as I can. There are no good memories attached to hospital stays. While I can be thankful that hospitals exist for when we absolutely must have them, there is no time that I want to need them. Every memory of a hospital is negative. My most recent one was a $20,000.00 plus experience with my wife for 27 hours total. Again thankful that my wife is all fixed up, everything else was a negative. So I am feeling extra sorry for Aunt Edith this morning, as she lies there with a new hip, when just a couple of days ago her old one was working just fine.

So these two aunties give me pause this morning to be grateful that I, today, have not yet had to struggle with what they are facing. I recognize that it could happen to me today, so I will be thankful for the time that it has not.