Crescent Moon

Pulling back the curtains in my study and the sun had barely crossed the horizon. Leaving the crescent moon on the edge of daylight and dark. I did my best to take a picture, but I suppose some images are best left for the mind. I woke up a bit early and couldn’t really get back to sleep. Laying there I simply held my wife while she continued to sleep. I don’t know how she does it, but for decades I’ve always envied her ability to sleep.
 
Waking up with a good attitude, minus a sinus headache. The air was really dry last night and even with a humidifier on my CPAP, I found it difficult not to have a dry throat. But as you all have come to expect, it is what it is, and so I go on. Yesterday I had a brief live conversation with a young woman I follow on TT. She is a mother and wife with two teenage boys, and she has MS. And she uses the platform to bring awareness and talk about her adventures with that debilitating illness.
 
I connect with her with my own physical limitations. And our conversations usually gravitate towards how we get along with those limitations. Along with the burdens we feel we put upon our families. While we suffer from two very different illnesses, the effects on us are very similar with physical mobility and quality of life. The main difference being mine was preventable and her’s isn’t.
 
Still it’s nice to have a friend that understands and has the same attitude towards surviving. So as I sit here on this early morning with the sun rising over the trees. I’ve found peace living with an illness that will eventually kill me. So I don’t treat my life as a death sentence or at the very least use it as a reason to give up. Like my friend, I do my best to wake up every morning with a good attitude, that today will only be as good as I can make it.     
 
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