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I'm thankful for the birth of my beautiful, happy and healthy baby
I'm thankful for working in an industry where my skills are in demand and has plenty of opportunities to work from home
I'm thankful for my wife who is an incredibly strong, kind and inspiring woman as well as an amazing mom
I'm thankful for living in the U.S which has given me many opportunities to be grateful for
My 3 y/o son received an autism diagnosis earlier this year. Seeing him do so well starting school this fall and starting to have lots of new words is what I'm thankful for!
You have a long road ahead of you--but it's a good road. Mine was diagnosed around 5 and is now in high school. That diagnosis meant services and accommodations that he was able to receive, which if he had not received, would have meant a much more difficult road through school. Thankfully our district does an amazing job working with him (and other special needs children). It's an experience being a parent of an aut…
I’m also very curious to see how having a neurotypical little sister impacts his growth. Already seems to be having a big impact.
Insurance has been a big stress point but we’re navigating and getting Medicare has helped a bit.
I'm a much better person now, and have mostly kicked the depression and anxiety (even though they show up sometimes).
I’m thankful for the heart donor who saved my newborn daughter’s life last week. My daughter contracted Coxsackie B enterovirus at 2 weeks old, and it scarred her left ventricle beyond repair. Her donor has given her a second chance. Another family had to make a heartbreaking choice at a devastating moment, and they chose to give life to my daughter and probably several other gravely ill infants. Check your organ don…
I am happy for your family. I am an organ donor. I am also planning to donate my body to a medical institution so that the medical students have a human body to dissect and learn from. I hear that there is a dearth of human bodies. Since the topic of organ donation came up, I thought of asking this question. This is a real incident. I am not making this up. I met a learned priest. Both I and the priest are hindus. He…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/hinduethic...
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/helping-you-to-decide/your-...
(This is just from a quick Google search)
So here's a (silly) attempt to address the priest's argument directly: what if you lose a part of your body long before your death? Is that okay? If yes, returning an organ a couple decades later than planned shouldn't be that big a problem, no?
BTW, in my religion, saying "I am not that smart and don't know how to..." is a sin :p
There are countless things to be thankful for and grateful for. It's just we don't realize different things we are blessed with.
I was in so much pain 2 years ago that all I could think about was pain but reading his book about TMS and applying his teachings has virtually reduced my pain to almost nothing without any pills, surgery, physio or exercise.
So thank you Dr.Sarno. You have changed the life of many people all over the world with your research.
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I am happy for your family. I am an organ donor. I am also planning to donate my body to a medical institution so that the medical students have a human body to dissect and learn from. I hear that there is a dearth of human bodies. Since the topic of organ donation came up, I thought of asking this question. This is a real incident. I am not making this up. I met a learned priest. Both I and the priest are hindus. He…
When you say "priest", do you mean Catholic priest? It makes a bit of a difference since their are various church decisions on the subject.
I've seen my friends who have the same passion for art, or literature, or even STEM fields like biology and psychology, struggle to make a living "doing what they love." Many of them end up as baristas and uber drivers while they try to make it in their chosen fields.
Me? I went to school for something I found fun. I didn't choose programming because it was a wise career move - I chose it because people told me if I do what I love, I'd never work a day in my life.
I've certainly made some decent career moves. I moved to where the jobs were, I learned some hot technologies, and I learned a bit about the business side of things. But overall, my very comfortable position in life is due to luck.
Luck that I was exposed to programming early on.
Luck that I was able to take a traditional, safe path from "I like coding" to "I have a job coding."
But most of all, luck that when I got out of school, there was ridiculous demand for the thing I would have done for fun anyway.
I'm thankful that the job market is great for devs in SF, and that I love software dev. As a result, I try my best to be aware that most people are fighting a much more uphill battle than me.