THE OTHER SIDE OF ADVERSITY
Haven’t written into my blog for a long time, so I have to warn you that this is a long one. Six months ago, I had cervical spinal surgery and my life has not been the same since (and mostly not in a good way). Before I go on, I want to share certain life perspectives that I have been raised with and have raised our daughters in a similar way. My mother ingrained in us the popular mantra of the day, “today is the first day of the rest of your life, so do the most with it.” Lately I have added that ‘no one promised us tomorrow.’ And now a little history before bringing this up to 6 months ago. When I was 14, I had a bad fall on the first day of a family road trip vacation in the UK. I broke my collar bone and due to the nature of the fall, I also had whiplash. My father heard the break from across the street and the first thing he said was, “Oh shit. There goes the vacation.” That was far greater pain for me than the actual broken bone. Suffice it to say that the next 2 days wer