carbonman wrote:raggedykat wrote:Okay, does that really mean that I will one day be the person I thought I used to be?
'kat, in all seriousness, I hope so.
I can only speak for myself....it
is happening for me.
Stay the course.
Stay on top of your therapy.
Believe.
The key, 'kat, may be in Carbonman's present tagline:
carbonman wrote:"If your therapy is improving your health but you're not doing anything to see or feel those changes, you'll never know what you're capable of. -I said that."
I interpret that to mean, at least partly, that when we feel better, we have to DO something about it other than simply enjoying feeling better. PAP gives us some of the tools we desperately needed to take our lives back, but it is up to us to use those tools now to the benefit of our future lives. If we still make the same choices we made before PAP, out of habit or inertia, we won't get the full benefit. But if we, on the other hand, invest the days and hours we feel good into doing things that will allow us to reap a future dividend, we will be that much better off physically, mentally, and emotionally.
That means, in my opinion, if we have a good day today and use it being more active and eating well and making changes in our entire decision-making process in doing the right things for ourselves and others, we may reap, maybe, 10 good days or more from that one invested day, somewhere down the line. If we spend today doing the same things we did when we couldn't breathe at night, we are spending our earnings as fast as we get them.
Carbonman is a motivation to all of us to spend our benefits wisely on paying it forward, not just to others, but to ourselves too.
Ride on, Carbonman, ride on.
jeff
