Cody Updates by Mom

A day is like any other day, right?  We eat, sleep and be.  Maybe not enough of them or maybe too much but it still is a day.  Days come and go and life keeps moving along.  I am amazed at how much the days seem to fly by.

Today was cloudy.  Not a normal cloudy but an odd wavy, almost rippled cloudy.  Jim said that it reminded him of ripples on water.

It was the perfect day to go with my thoughts.  Today was a very thoughtful day.  Did you know that we have anywhere between 50,000-70,000 thoughts in a day?  At least that is what google says.  That’s a crazy amount!

I was thinking so much today because three years ago today my life changed drastically.  That dreaded word “cancer” stuck its nose into my life and decided that it wanted to stay.  I didn’t know at the time that this was only the start of the changes that I would go through.  It was the start of the ripples through my life.

Today, as my thoughts moved between three years ago and today, I realized that those memories are starting to feel far away.  There are still moments where it feels like it was just yesterday but those are pretty few and far between.  It feels good to have these thoughts really feel like I am looking into the past.

Many things changed but there are many things that have gotten back to normal.  My hair (though much curlier) is again long and very much me.  My sarcasm is still functional and sometimes the filter on my mouth gets stuck in the off position.  No change there.  The tiredness is under control.  Life, however, continues to change with both work and home.  My new job at work is keeping me very busy and taking many of those 50,000 thoughts each day.  These last weeks I honestly think that I may be using that many thoughts just during my work day.  There are many days that my brain feels as if it has just run a marathon.  My goal now is to make sure that I am keeping as many of those thoughts being positive thoughts and removing those negative, self doubting thoughts from my head.

As the ripples in my life continue, I will continue to remind myself that I am stronger than I think.  I recently had the joy of hearing from my friend who is having a lot of similar steps on her journey.  She was thanking me for the support and help I gave.  I believe that she helped me just as much.  Being able to feel that my experiences can help someone else as they are facing a tough situation is very humbling yet gratifying.

I leave you with another photo from today’s sky.  Peace to you and the ripples in your life.