What have you done during the past year that has made you feel proud or happy?

@TeresaRudolph71 It’s been a long road back. Often I feel like a stranger in a strange land but I’m making it one day at a time. 🦋

@JustGoneNow Good for you. That's the only way. I admire you for facing your fears, and I know you'll make it. 💜

@TeresaRudolph71 🖤

@SmartKat ✌️

@SmartKat That's wonderful. I know that relationships with family members can be complicated, so that can take a real effort. But I also think that death can make a person realize that we only have people with us for so long.

I'm very glad for you, and I'm very glad that last year was better than the last two years before.

@TeresaRudolph71 Maybe on some lonely path I will round a bend and see a fairy princess who is lonely, too.

@JoyfulSilence I could see that happening. :)

@TeresaRudolph71 I am rereading the Silmarillion so this sort of stuff is on my mind!

@SW-User I'm sorry to hear that. Even though you're not here anymore to see my response (and I'm sorry I didn't see your reply until now), I hope you're able to lose the weight, and the coming year is better for you. And I hope you'll come back and see my response too.

@QueenOfZaun Oh wow, good for you! That is quite an accomplishment. That's one of the things that I want to do. Well, 40 pounds anyway. I know that losing weight, especially that much, isn't easy. I hope you're able to keep in shape. I know that maintaining can be a challenge too.

@TeresaRudolph71 Very cool... and God Bless

@TeresaRudolph71 and I posted on IM as well... lol

@SW-User Thank you. :)

@BiasForAction I hope so, for us both.

@St0ut Hopefully it will, thanks.

@wstcstrob Wow, that's great. I hope the coming year is just as good for you. :)

@TeresaRudolph71 Thank you for your kind words, Teresa. That I'm still here is more discouraging to me than hopeful. It's doubtful the results of the dental malpractice I've received will heal satisfactorily, despite all the procedures and therapies I'm using. Among my physical injuries, that one is, by far, the hardest one to deal with. I truly need a miracle healing. Nothing else will do. I don't know how I came to choose this fate, but it hasn't left me with the kind of life I think I can live with. Even luck of the draw doesn't choose failure this many times with one person.

@PhoenixPhail Oh gosh, that doesn't sound like something that anyone would choose. I'm sorry to hear that that happened to you. I hope that your injuries will heal eventually. If it takes a miracle, then that is what we need to ask for.

@TeresaRudolph71 Thanks, love. I'm totally open to accepting a miracle.