I'll pray for you. Keep your head up. There are so many great changes with cancer treatments. The possibility to survive is remarkable. God bless...

Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Prayer for a successful outcome with your surgery. Blessings to you.

My second surgery is completed and I'm getting radioactive iodine treatment at the end of May. One day at a time. Always moving forward and keeping a positive frame of mind.

Prayers for your healing.

Hallelujah! So true. So inspiring.

Hang in there - it'll get better eventually; I know the feeling, just keeping a roof over the family's head in times of financial shortage is a major stress-factor, very anxiety-inducing. Working one's butt off and still the money never seems to be enough... What helped me out of it eventually was being very blunt in asking for help; in this case, the employer, just repeating over and over again to the HR manager how stressful the constant financial pressures were, until, a few days ago only, a much-needed and long-overdue pay-rise was agreed upon. Very best wishes to you! Cute-looking pup in your picture, looks like a flock guardian dog; we have one too, they're the best, gentle family-loving giants and guardians...

My rotator cuff repair took a year to recover from, but it's been 2 years now and I'm great and can do all the things I want to. I couldn't even type and work for 2 months after surgery. You'll get there!

Anne, Love your channel! I lost use of my left arm/leg at the age of 52 due to a brain hemorrhage. In 2.5 years since the strokeThere is not much I can’t do one handed. you just have to persevere and figure things out, I still do wiring plumbing, use a chainsaw, do brake jobs, repair the tractors, excavators and other equipment on out homestead. If anyone can do this it’s you. The fact that you only lost fingers /grip means you can still do a lot! Oh an not feeling things is indeed weird but you get used to it just be careful with temperature events eg fires, welding etc. I have burned my hand and foot and never felt either of them when it occurred..You got this because like me you have the right attitude and staying positive with a can-do attitude will get you through this.

@@rccollins8160 I absolutely ❤ LOVE your attitude and energy! SO many people wallow over the past, and what they can’t control or change, following a serious injury/loss of use/function of limbs. They’re usually the ones who don’t adapt or thrive very well too. Young 🇨🇦 vet, paraplegic here along with losing finger function in most of my dominant hand, wheelchair 🦽 user, and if I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard “oh I could never do it, must be awful, I’d rather die than dealing with no working legs” (as in, newsflash, you don’t got much choice)🥴 It’s almost as if people can’t fathom people with serious disability how one can function or even have a quality of life, much less contribute to society. And. That attitude has implications too, I’ve known families of recently injured quadriplegics pull them off life support in the ICU, not because it wasn’t survivable, but because they couldn’t imagine them having any life quality 😢 Which is SO wrong. Plenty live independently, have careers, families, etc. also perpetuates the idea commonly held that we can’t do things on our own. I routinely have strangers be baffled that I can even drive (SUV modified with hand controls - when I went to bank to buy SUV, teller asked for ID, assumed I couldn’t possibly have a drivers license 🤦🏼‍♂️). Strangers will often congratulate me for getting out of my truck, doing my own groceries, gets annoying real quick *sigh*. Even had nurses (who should know better) assume I lived with my parents (in my mid 30s!! 🙄). It’s almost…condescending? Like y’all, it isn’t the 1900s anymore, we’ve evolved, as has technology. I have an ultra light fully custom titanium wheelchair that moves with my body, it’s easy as pie to push. People have tried to say “omg so sorry”, like why? I’m doing perfectly fine, don’t want or need your pity. There’s nothing to pity! 🤦🏼‍♂️ Besides, whenever I find myself in a really long line up at a store for instance, I have brought my own chair to sit in and relax, can wait hours if need be 😂 It has perks 🤷🏼‍♂️ Some people honestly think we disabled folks sit at home always and have caregivers do everything for us…nah I live independently, had to relearn how to do everything differently of course, but it’s doable! Even renovating my washroom to be fully wheelchair accessible almost entirely on my own! Sure, it took 3X as long, and I only had to ask for help replacing the toilet (as I obviously couldn’t lift it as I weigh 95lbs soaking wet too, lol!) and some help putting up grab bars in my new roll-in shower, did all the tiling, 2x4s in the walls, plumbing, lighting, etc myself. Not that I had much choice, living alone and single ha and on a small budget. For the curious, I did spend extra on cordless tools, so avoid the unsafe issue of cords getting caught in my wheels/me getting tangled up in cords as I crawled around with construction materials ha. Small things able-bodied people probably don’t have to consider. Saved me plenty broken tiles heheh! Some people sadly, internalize, or are raised/ taught that they’re not capable of doing things for themselves too, it’s harmful attitudes, my paraplegic cousin with Spina-Bifida was one of those, raised by her parents doing everything for her, never worked a day in her life, had a power wheelchair because she found it too hard to push herself at all (with two perfectly working arms, SMH) and always had that entitled attitude that everyone should do things for her and give her money, quite sad. I recall a coworker also with Spina-Bifida being even worse, would ask coworkers in this cringe whiney voice to go fill her water bottle at the water cooler…she had a power chair and perfectly working arms, she didn’t even have to push her wheelchair there FFS! Coworkers would say no and ask her “what’s wrong with your arms?” 😂 They had no time or patience for that hahah! She was very much one to milk the system, her plan if she was fired? Go on provincial/government disability and sit at home getting everything for free (as she’d done many times before)🤦🏼‍♂️ Y’know the type ugh… And heck, walking isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be IMHO, you can function perfectly fine without legs/without an arm (or both, albeit with more difficulty, but not impossible!) And without most of your fingers…speech to text software is a common thing these days. Of course, it may require a career change, as it did for me, medically retired from the military, but I still worked at National Def HQ 2 years from my wheelchair doing translation and logistics so 🤷🏼‍♂️ And I think I changed attitudes too, worked with the career managers and those making policies on medical release saw me and changed their views, because shortly after working for them while I was zipping around NDHQ in my green wheelchair? More lax policies came out, allowing soldiers with amputations to remain in the military (whereas previously, it was automatic release). But yeh, walking ain’t all it’s cracked up to be IMHO, if you offered me the option of regaining function of internal organs (because neurological injuries do affect internal organs muscles such as bladder and bowels), OR walking? I’d say heck with walking, because honestly my only significant issue is the chronic infections that inevitably come with needing to use catheters and medical devices, I’d gladly do without that ha 😅 My life is perfectly fine with 25” wheels on each side of my arse 😂 I think people project their lack of knowledge onto us, because the concept is so alien to them (probably the same type of people that would see being paralyzed as catastrophically life-ending when it’s not). Go figure. But yeah, all that to say, your attitude and outlook is so refreshing to see! I was starting to feel like an outlier having met so many disabled folks with cringey, awful attitudes, and able-bodied folks who don’t see us as capable of self- agency, of accomplishing anything or incapable of contributing to society. Of course, that may be lingering misconceptions rooted in the early days where folks would be institutionalized, but still. Nice to see someone with drive, who adapted and overcame! 😉❤

Oh buddy. Holding you up from afar. Good on ya for seeking help. There is absolutely no shame in needing it. You’ve got this. ❤️❤️❤️