Tell me some good news

[LoveSpringsteen]

My daughter turns 21 next week and she’s coming home from college on Sunday. I’m so excited to see her sweet face.
Like @jalapeno_pretzel said, I’m so encouraged to hear the promising news this week about immunotherapy. My husband had stage 3 melanoma and went through immunotherapy treatments for all of 2020 and so far, there are no signs of cancer remaining (he goes for scans periodically). I’m grateful for the science that brought us these treatments!

 

[barkley]

there's a rumor that santa claus is coming to town!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Yeeeeehawwwww Dark mode is cool.

 

[smilie]

My DD's therapy progress has me speechless! She lost her emotional support animal suddenly on Monday. She told me "I miss her so much, but I can handle this!" Last year this wouldn't have been possible.

 

[KayMichigan]

Gravity is still working!

 

[lisaviolet]

I’m driving myself nuts reading the news about respiratory illnesses. Add in seasonal depression and the fact that we haven’t had sun in a couple weeks and I’m feeling like crud mentally. So tell me some good news that I may have missed in the world!

I wish I had found this in some great novel or something but the moment I heard this quote it instantly changed my perspective, I had never thought of it this way -

"They hit you out of nowhere. When bad things come, they come suddenly without warning. We rarely get to see the catastrophe coming. No matter how well we try to prepare for it.
…
We do our very best but sometimes it’s just not good enough. We buckle our seat belts, we wear a helmet, we stick to the lighted paths. We try to be safe. We try so hard to protect ourselves but it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference cause when the bad things come, they come out of nowhere. The bad things come suddenly with no warning but we forget, that sometimes that’s how the good things come too."

 

[Lumpy1106]

DD has been accepted to 8 of the 11 Universities she has applied to - haven't heard back from the last 3. We are fairly certain she will be accepted to two of the remaining 3.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

DS has a job. It's not much, just part time doing stock at a Winn Dixie, but he pushed himself to put his anxiety to the side to do so. It's his 2nd job (first was working at Legoland CA, when he was there with DD#2), but the first he got by himself (she got him in at LL).

He also went and got his learners permit, so he can learn to drive. That was stalled when the DMVs here shut down in 2020; when they started back again, he was too far down the anxiety and depression hole to do it. So, at 19, he's learning to drive, finally. (He did take drivers ed during online school, and we took him out some, but then he started having panic attacks and couldn't do it at all.)


[Now, if he'd get moving on the classes we paid for him to take, he could be working at DH's job as a drafting intern in 3 months, earning $20 an hour to start (with full benefits after a year), instead of $11.xx an hour, doing physically demanding labor. But that's just mom wanting him to have a job that could possibly get him into his own apartment because mom is ready to be an empty nester! ]

 

[toodycat]

My last trip to Walt Disney World required me to use a wheelchair because my foot had become mishapen with severe bunion and hammer toe. I had surgery two months ago. The recovery was not easy, but now I can walk comfortably and my foot looks great. I’m so grateful for my doctor and my health insurance.