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Quite the fighter and the writer, you are, Mae! Your blog on REconstruction is an enjoyable read, describing your surroundings and your determination to "get all welled up." You've come a long way from that wheelchair of last year. Three cheers for you!

Yes i need that...

I need over-haul...

Mae,

Your outlook is very inspiring, "I blessed my accident."

Sometimes what seems to be the most tramatic incident in our lives become the event what makes us stronger. It's not the event but rather how we deal with the event and the aftermath.

Now with that said, I am in severe need of a REconstruction Zone. The last two and a half years of my life have turned me inside out upside down and left me dragging through depression.

This past week I joined the fitness center at work. That, along with surrounding myself with positive people is only the beginning.

Hugs my dear~

Loved the blog! Thank you for sharing your walk & your thoughts.

• • Re: REconstruction Zone — —
• • Nkmet08 wrote: It's not the event but rather how we deal with the event and the aftermath. . . .
• • Exactly. It is not the event — — the accident, the broken bones, the being in a wheelchair — — that can make a person "unhappy" or "depressed." It is your personal response that determines your emotional state.
• • I did not choose to have a bad accident that left me with broken bones, the inability to walk, and a painfully large medical bill.
• • I did CHOOSE to use my invalid-hood as a time when I would write [and read] as much as possible and do whatever I could manage to accomplish at the computer.
• • I revised a full-length play four times, for example, and wrote two new plays, etc. etc. I entered my plays into competitions, etc. I set up a diary of my daily accomplishments and decided I would enter FIVE accomplishments each day — — then I had to do the actions that were worthy of being recorded in my journal.
• • If you focus on what you want to do and then make sure you do it, you can stay active and positive.
• • Separately, I kept an exercise and recovery chart. Even when I was in my cast and in pain, I was busy inventing exercises to do in bed — — such as air walking. Each day I added ONE MINUTE to how long I could exercise in bed.
• • These actions occupied me instead of moping.
• • Yes, I did hear bad news and on those days I did mope, I threw up all my food, and I felt miserable. THEN I got back on track the next morning.
• • Years ago I taped a saying to the inside of my medicine cabinet: There is no substitute for self-discipline.
• • Nkmet08, I believe happiness and recovery are choices we make. Give it a try.
• • To all who read my blog and made comments: THANK YOU.
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You know, I read your comments and thought what a marvelous idea that is -- writing down five accomplishments a day and then coming up with things to do so that you'd have something to write. I've been working this year on my own 'reconstruction' -- and this dovetails with it nicely. Thanks for the inspiration. :-)

• • It's very nice to hear from you, AquarianDragon.
• • Thank you for stopping by again. We have been missing you!
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