Thanks @Tot that’s ever so kind of you. I’ll do my best. It will be a good day.
Martin
Congratulations, very well done. A great achievement.
Tot
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I’m happy for you!
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It’s taken 14 months of patience and progress in the tiniest of baby steps but Gemma (so traumatised by the abuse she suffered in Romania and who spent her first year with her new family hardly moving from the sofa)
is now making huge strides - this is a still from a video shot at a local nature reserve this morning where she had her first proper. walk lasting 30 minutes. Today was a good day because this beautiful dog has decided to give life and trust a second chance.
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Today was a good day, I discovered a £5 note in a little used purse. Don’t know how long it had been there but it certainly beats losing a fiver
Tot
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Today I am posting to today is a good day but not to record a single event but rather in celebration of what is turning into a very good period for me as I approach the 13th anniversary of my diagnosis.
After a couple of difficult years in 2019 and 2020 when maintaining the positivity I value so much was sorely tested, I now look back on that period with some pride - not only did I survive, I also stood my ground against a company who tried to argue some deliberate damage was accidental, and won - as it proved to me that I was stronger than I realised and I was a force to be reckoned with if the situation so demanded. 2021 was spent getting my energy back, getting finances etc sorted and most importantly sorting out my Parkinson’s routines which had got lost in everything that had happened including the lockdowns that affected us all. Now as 2022 nears its end, I am well, stronger both mentally and physically and for now anyway I am at least a match for anything Parkinson’s may choose to throw at me. It has shown me yet again what a good friend looking for that silver lining can be - and if positivity is a driver for you (I know its not for everyone) then I would urge you to hang on to that for as long as you can; I am certainly going to try and maintain it as deterioration takes hold as it surely will.
I know this is not a conventional today is a good day post but it felt like the best place to say life is good for me right now - something I really didn’t expect to be able to say 13 years on.
Tot
PS as it happens today was a good day as I was able to visit my 92 year old Mum at the same time as my eldest sister which hardly ever happens these days 
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Hi Tot, thank you again for yet another post offering inspiration and a reminder to look at how far one has come and the obstacles we have overcome. I continue and take a lot from your posts, My mum used to tell me “a woman is like a tea-bag, you never know how strong she is until in hot water” I lookk forward to saying something like you in another 10 years! Loveley to see your family before 
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Hello Tot,
being positive definitely keeps you strong and able to deal with anything that life throws at you. Being as positive as you are is why you are able to live a normal active life as possible. I love people like you who looks at everything in a positive way. My husband has the same mindset as you do and knows there is nothing he can do about having PD but doesn’t cave into it. It has taught me that it is like anything that is thrown at any of us. We can either cave in and give into it and then be too weak to deal with it or we can be positive which then gives us strength so we are able to deal with it.
I totally admire anyone who has such a positive outlook on life even when they get a diagnosis of any kind. Having any kind of illness is bad enough but it doesn’t mean you have to give into it.
Keep posting Tot you are an inspiration.
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Hello Lizzyg
I was touched and humbled to read your post this morning and it’s good to hear your husband is made strong by his positivity as I am. I sometimes think that people assume my approach stems from my diagnosis but that is not correct. I once wrote my Parkinson’s story but for reasons that are not important have let it lie. I do see myself as a glass half full person but there is one paragraph in my story that explains my positivity which I thought you might like to see.
This complex and winding path leading to my eventual Parkinson’s diagnosis I can now see leads me to view it as part and parcel of life, my life. It wouldn’t be hard to see my life in distinct parts fitted into a chronology of time but I don’t see it like that, if indeed I ever did. To me it makes much more sense to see my life as a continuum where life events, experiences call them what you will overlap or blur at the edges each giving or teaching something that takes you forward. My diagnosis of Parkinson’s was just another turn in the road which changed my direction, I didn’t see it as the end of the road then, nor do I see that now.
Here on the forum I’m often seen as being inspirational which I must admit I struggle with - it’s such a big word -
however, that’s the view of others, not me. I simply write as I see it and if others can take something from that, it’s a bonus.
Thank you for your kind words. It would be interesting to know how others view their positivity if that’s their driver.
My best wishes to you and your husband.
Tot
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After a day listening to news of strikes, of war, of sick and dying children…,it was lovely to read your positive Christmas message, Tot. Thank you. X
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Well said Tot and ElleMac.
Tot you always seem to say the right things.
Your words are lovely.
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When there is so much gloomy news around some lovely news as Christmas Day approaches, my niece gave birth to her first child, a son, at 2.30 this morning. Baby James who was due on Boxing Day was clearly not wanting to miss his first Christmas so opted to be born on Christmas Eve instead.
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Welcome, baby James. Have a very happy first Christmas and a wonderful life. xx
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Today was a good day because I stood on one foot, my weakest one, without wobbling or any form of support. I don’t remember the last time I was able to do that and was proof if proof was needed that I now had a strong core. This was one of the main aims when I started working with a personal trainer and it may only be a little thing in the grand scheme of things, but it quite made my day.
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Today was a good day for 2 dog related reasons. First Gemma the deerhound rescued from abuse in Romania and severely traumatised has been making giant strides in the last few months and it is great to see my friend’s hard work and patience finally paying dividends. Second so chuffed to see how my elderly friend and her beautiful cockerpoo did so well in a session with a trainer this morning the aim being to stop him jumping up when visitors arrive.
The weather was foggy and dismal today, but these two things were just brilliant, quite emotional and absolutely made my day.
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Today was a good day when i was sent a video of this unexpected visitor to my friend’s garden whose house is in a town setting what a privilege and a treat
Today was a good day, I congratulated my grandmother on her birthday, gave her flowers, and thanked the people from flower delivery Manchester
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