Count Your Blessings

My cancer antigen numbers stayed the same this time.  Although that is a little disappointing the nurse confirmed that those are really good numbers anyway. It is when the number goes up twice that you need to worry.   Everyone has cancer cells in them.  (Disturbing, I know) so we don't really know what my numbers were before it really started to grow.  We will take the good news.
 I feel a little badly about posting all my side effects when I know that
there are so many people out there suffering from so many different things.  One of my daughters is so sick and in the hospital for the fourth time, as we speak, due to her second pregnancy.  It breaks my heart.  I think she feels much worse than I do.  At least I can eat whether I can taste it or not.  She has taught me though that we don't compare.  We don't compare green grass to green grass and so we don't compare brown grass to brown grass either.  Food for thought.  I have another daughter whose entire family has had and is finally recovering from whooping cough and a son and family who had a nightmare vacation to Illinois including hitting a deer, totaling their van all while they had the stomach flu.  I have another daughter who has so far escaped the McNeil curse of 2015. :):):) We all have our issues, yes, some more serious than others but we all have our own adversity.  We all have to make it through our own troubles.  And we all have them, or at least will at sometime in our lives.  I think it might have been Neal A Maxwell who pointed out that some may not have adversity at the time so that they can be of service to those who do.  Oh how I have been the recipient of so much love and service.  I guess the point is to count our blessings and be so grateful for what we have regardless of our troubles.  The blessings usually outweigh the troubles.