1) I can eat, drink, and live normally without fear of keeling over, vomiting for days on end, or ultimately ending up in the emergency room, having emergency surgeries.
2) I've gone months without surgery, and will go years - possibly even decades - before having another (if I have to have one again)!
3) I've sold enough in my Etsy shop to finance most of my Christmas shopping for this year. Whew! Sweet relief.
4) My family and friends are all in good health, and are in healthy relationships.
5) I've had incredible support from friends and strangers alike over the past year. I mean, they helped raise $5000 to help finance my trip to Germany for my final two surgeries over the summer! That's kind of the best thing ever. If I think about it for too long, I get weepy with gratitude.
6) My lupus is mercifully under control, and the Plaquenil (anti-malarial immuno-suppressive medicine that I take twice daily) is a godsend.
7) My friends Ericka and Gillis were blessed with a beautiful, healthy boy who makes the world a better place (technically this happened in 2012, but I didn't get to meet him until their visit in 2013). And I get to see them all again this December!
8) I've made several new friends, and have a fabulous support system.
9) I'm well enough to start applying for jobs, and (finger crossed), I'll be gainfully employed with a full-time job again in 2014.
10) It's 11:11 as I finish typing this, and if you know me at all, you know that this means you should make a wish for 2014, as it will indubitably come true.
This is the smile of a healthy, happy Leslie (who is holding one of her two awesome babies):
This is the smile of a healthy, happy Leslie (who is holding one of her two awesome babies):
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