For a Sunday, the holidays are not over for me, yet. My parents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin got sick Last week and had to postpone our Christmas celebration until they are better. So, Christmas is not over for me, yay! Anyway, it has been a while since I have really written here at My Life in Words and I took a break along the way to write in my other diaries at Dear Diary/DD, and I have been doing some serious thinking about some things. Yes, I have! That was the reason for my little hiatus from My Life in Words with an occasional entry from time to time. The holidays are a hectic time for me, for everyone who experiences the hassle of traveling and family get togetherness and having their celebrations. I know that I get more excited, over stimulated and stressed during the holidays myself! I am glad I do not need to celebrate the holidays like I did when I was younger and growing up. Grandma and grandpa knew how to entertain themselves during the holidays with us kids, my brother and I, and our friends with other family members who knew how to have fun and structured chaos! A momentous time in the making. The same grandparents, my maternal grandparents, always told me that during our snacks and drinks time, I knew friendly conversation starters. Okay, I did not believe it until I became an adult myself—a matured version of myself. Now, I celebrate the holidays more quietly and with whoever I can now that traveling is hard for me right now. I do not mind sitting at home to watch a Christmas movie or two, do some reading and writing along the way. Sitting around a Christmas tree is still fun to do, but the past couple of years I have not put a tree up because of my fur babies love to climb trees and furniture at ease. I thought today was a wonderful day to come out of hibernation Soto speak. It is kind of hard for me to take a break from writing entirely anyway.
As far as 2024 is concerned, I have to say I have learned to accept my handicap what it is now more than when it first became more of what it is today. When it comes to my handicapped condition being worse, it was not even my fault. It was the fault of the hospital and the crap I went through from September 2022 and November of that year. What happened then was the fault of the hospital and the MercyHealth system giving up on me in general. I even, literally hate going to the ER for my medical needs at times. They rarely listen to me and the people who are with me at the time of incident. It has gotten that bad unfortunately… I have come to trust the MercyHealth system at Mercy. The only people I now trust are the technicians and doctors in the radiology department of the hospital. It is that bad! I have been thinking of other important issues in my life as well. Are you ready to know? I am ready to talk, okay?