Transform

Today, Mother's Day, this blog is dedicated to me and any other mother or father who can relate. Transformation is a gentle change from one form to another and today I can relate to this terminology and will explain:

Avascular necrosis is a disease that results from temporary or permanent loss of blood supply to the bone. When the blood supply is interrupted, bone tissue dies and the bone collapses. If avascular necrosis occurs near a joint, the joint surface may collapse.

Living with an inflammatory disease is something I am fortunate to experience day to day. Inflammatory disease is a general term applied to autoimmune diseases and chronic inflammation conditions in which a person's immune system attacks the body's own tissues. Familial inflammatory diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, inflammatory bowel disease, and multiple sclerosis. These diseases can affect almost any organ in the body, and in most cases, more than one organ or organ system. While the classic sign of the disease is inflammation, other symptoms can include joint stiffness, pain, loss of function, and rashes, with periods of remission and periods of increased disease activity (flares). The burden of inflammatory diseases includes the number of comorbid conditions, missed work days, decreased quality of life, and a shortened lifespan.

Being a size 10 or 12 one day and a size 16 the next is something I've had the privilege of experiencing. But with this experience, I've also experienced pain. It's not the pain you might think, it's not the visual damage because I've learned to accept myself as I am. The pain I'm referring to is joint pain, the pain you feel when your hand is swollen from a bee sting, or when a mosquito bites you and it swells up, that's the pain I'm referring to. Another pain is looking at people's own reflections when they look at you.

Three months ago I decided to have the thoracic port removed from my chest and was told that increased inflammation could have been a possibility in my body but I learned that if we allow our bodies to heal; it may take some time but it will heal. Today I am speaking to sick mothers who may feel alone or in denial about a certain medical diagnosis. I am coming to you today from a person who lives in pain every day of her life and smiles at everything and makes jokes and laughs constantly and has a vision board of goals that I will achieve.

Yes, it is normal to feel overwhelmed sometimes. I understand that feeling too. But when that feeling comes, I take a breath and start being grateful for everything I have and those thoughts calm down; and as Karol G says in one of her songs, tomorrow will be more beautiful. If you feel depressed, tired, hurt or if your subconscious tells you that life is not worth living, silence that voice in your head by incorporating gratitude. Don't let anything disturb your peace. Life is beautiful and full of things that are waiting for you to discover them.

Let's transform our minds and stop worrying about our appearance. We automatically transform with age and that change is a beauty in itself if you know how to see it with eyes of gratitude. Medically ill patients transform differently, but we are the ones who choose to see what we want. Are we going to focus on "what if? this or that doesn't change, what if I'm this way or that way?" or are we going to be grateful for everything we have and let life and our body take its time to recover at its own pace? Or let life take its own course and live in the now? Every day I wake up is a new opportunity to work on my goals and dreams and thank God for a new day. What is your decision when you wake up every day? Happy Mother's Day 2023 I leave you with these questions. Blessings.