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What is one word that describes you?

Yesterday I was having a conversation with another person and she told me about how she had neglected her fall. Now that she was suffering. It lead me to tell her about a ligament tear I had more than 20 years ago. The doctor then had suggested 4 week of physical after a fall and only when my pain was not going anywhere, MRI was suggested. The MRI showed the tear and a surgery was done.

So after surgery, I underwent 3 months of physical therapy.

So what was the thought process? Therapy before the surgery did not help and surgery alone was not sufficient. I had to go to therapy again. It needed to happen together.

With my son’s autism, it is really hard since the root cause of the problem is not known and we kept having hits and misses. We have tried treating him with mainstream medications and bio medical interventions and I have thrown every kind of therapy at him.

I have heard parents use these words in forums, “playing Russian Roulette with therapies” and “throwing everything except the kitchen sink for treatments”.

Now that he is in his mid twenties and us being middle aged, the energy is not there anymore. We have accepted a lot of what he is and how much we can do. There seems to be some peace. Our decisions are firm and not much confusion exits.

But I have understood , learning keeps happening, awareness keeps happening and progress keeps happening.

My boy has progressed and will be progressing, I may not be doing everything possible on this Earth like therapies and interventions but I am being optimistic.

So to answer the WordPress prompt of the day, I am a person who thinks the glass is half full.