{"id":82,"date":"2023-11-23T13:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/?p=82"},"modified":"2023-11-23T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T13:15:58","slug":"a-grateful-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/2023\/11\/23\/a-grateful-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grateful Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2420\" height=\"2268\" src=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/20170116_064306.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" style=\"width:292px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The truth is<\/strong>, I have one good day out of every 14. At least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m calculating as I follow my symptoms and progress. One day every two weeks when I have energy, feel excited about work, family, life. The other 13 days are a mixed bag of napping, weak legs and fatigue. When I&#8217;m not feeling well, I really struggle. But when I&#8217;m feeling good, I am GREAT!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On this Thanksgiving day, I&#8217;m not feeling great. I&#8217;m feeling about half. But it&#8217;s Thanksgiving, isn&#8217;t it? This is a day to remember what has helped get us through the last year, the last decade, and, if we&#8217;re being honest, your entire life! When you reflect back, really look at every event, every moment, you&#8217;ll realize you didn&#8217;t make it this far on your own! You have been surrounded with friends, family, co-worker, neighbors, and pets!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">In the wise, very quotable words of my friend, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dwframe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Frame<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;<em>I survive change by relying on others. Accepting their gifts. Seeing how I can improve. Still learning to love. Still learning to accept love. Challenge change by uncovering what you might not have seen otherwise.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this Thanksgiving Day, may we also rely on others, accept their gifts, and continually learn to love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Happy Thanksgiving!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3064\" height=\"2480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-108\" data-id=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/11\/15Aug2017-Scan-030-1.jpg\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2832\" height=\"2128\" 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At least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m calculating as I follow my symptoms and progress. One day every two weeks when I have energy, feel excited about work, family, life. The other 13 days are a mixed bag of napping, weak legs and fatigue. When &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/2023\/11\/23\/a-grateful-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Grateful Heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A Grateful Heart","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/driftingthrudysautonomia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}