Discouraged?

It's so easy to get discouraged and depressed while you're in the hospital or home recovering.  Trust me, i know.  In the past three years, i have been in the hospital 24 times, usually for at least a week.   Currently i am stuck at home waiting for my leg wound to heal so i can be fitted for a new leg.

 

i have moments of great depression, that i will not deny.

 

In the past i allowed it to over take me.  But today, i'm tired of the tears.  It's still a battle, but i am seizing control over myself, my life and my emotions. 

 

Instead of sitting on the sofa, gathering cobwebs feeling sorry for myself, i focus on the limited amount of exercise that i am able to do.  My mind goes away from sadness to counting the number of leg lifts i am doing.   Or pushing myself beyond the limits i always gave myself in the past.  After 15 minutes of exercising, i'm feeling too accomplished to remember what i was lowering my thoughts into.

 

Like eating Chinese food, where you're hungry an hour later, my thoughts can drift again.   So i pick up my stretching band and build up my upper body strength while thinking about walking soon.   Thinking about all the places i will venture to with my camera.   Seated on the sofa, i'm able to do twisting exercises and think about clothes that haven't fit, that soon will basically allow me a new wardrobe.

 

The important thing is not to allow yourself to get discouraged by whatever your situation is.   In many ways you can alter it, by mind or body.  Just believe you can ... because in reality ... YOU CAN.