by Patti Jackson
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| Choices by Patti Jackson |
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| A few years ago (almost 20 actually) when I was learning to live with chronic asthma (on a machine 2x/day), having moved to the Willamette Valley in Oregon (the grass capital of the world, so they say), I went through many of Kubler-Ross's stages of death and dying: denial, anger, etc. and finally reached acceptance. I decided that my choice wasn't to live with it or not; my choice was HOW I wanted to live with it. I won't go into all that went into getting to that point, except to say that it was a huge turning point in my life towards "accepting the things I cannot change." And learning to take good care of myself (well, most of the time). | |||
| I see this as applying to the discovery of my ADHD. My choice isn't to have it or not to have it, but how do I want to live with it? I choose to live with it as best I can. | |||
| I hope this doesn't sound too preachy. I don't mean it to be, but if so, I apologize if I annoyed anyone. It has just been such a powerful force in my life, this attitude thing, that I needed to share it. | |||
| Am I always so Pollyana-ish? Of course not - I have good days and bad days. But I am always growing and that's what keeps me enjoying life. | |||