Where do I begin?
OK, before I get started, you need to know that I'm not making this up. I've posted about Good Riddance Day a couple of years ago...and you can find a form to submit for the "official shred" in Times Square here:
http://www.timessquarenyc.org/forms/Marketing/Good_Riddance_Day.aspx.
Me? I'm making my own list, checking it twice...and firing up my own shredder. Sort of a Do It Yourself Celebration. Here goes...my Good Riddance List for 2012.
I bid a not-so-fond farewell to the following:
1. Bell's Palsy - My year would have been quite different, if I'd never heard those two words put together to make a person so miserable. I was diagnosed on Sunday, June 24th, and I am still dealing with the last, lingering effects of facial paralysis. If putting the words "Bell's Palsy" on a piece of paper and shredding it would make it go away, I would have done that 6 months ago, for sure. Still, I desperately wish to say good riddance to BP, so it takes the number one position on my list.
2. Other health issues - I'm going to lump my back problems, eye problems and vertigo...along with Missy M's broken foot problems...into one big category. Oh, and this most-recent malady, the flu...and all attendant fevers, coughing, wheezing, etc. A friend asked me if I thought my health problems were a result of my immune system being compromised due to the Bell's (and the meds I took to deal with it...many of which can suppress the immune system). Possibly. Regardless...it's good riddance to poor health.
3. Fear - When you live through one episode after another, you start thinking: what is going to happen next? And then, you become afraid to do something you wanted to do. So, fear wins. Hopefully, if I put it on my good riddance list, it will not linger any longer.
Three. That's plenty. Time to shred!
Join me, won't you?
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