Giving Thanks

SO today is Thanksgiving. Wow, it cam up on me a LOT faster then I thought. I told myself and everyone that I wanted to be at about 80% by Thanksgiving. And here I am probably closer to 50-60% at the most. But I am doing the best I can.
SO I start thinking about things at Thanksgiving, like what i did last year and of course what I am thankful for.
Last years Big Thanks was having Ben in my life and part of my family for our First thanksgiving together. And the super big thanks was that I was able to get insurance.
I am even more thankful for those 2 particular things this year then I was last year. After breaking my foot badly in February and going through the LONG recovery then almost RIGHT after that finding the AVM and going through that process to end with having double Brain surgery in October..Whew!
If I wasn't fortunate enough to have insurance, NON of this would have happened. I never would have been able to afford my new psychiatrist, not to mention a head MRI. SO the AVM never would have been found, and It probably would have ruptured.
The surgeon said the AVM was bigger then they expected when they went in, which leads me to believe it WAS getting bigger, as well as would probably going to burst.
I am so thankful.
I made it through something REALLY hard, a hard thing that not everyone has to go through. I had my wonderful supportive Family and Boyfriend by my side the WHOLE time. I was even able to get my Dad on an airplane to come down to Florida to help and support me.
Though on the friend front I was disappointed, very heavily. I had one friend that never has and never will leave my side. My Buddy Lisa. She has known me since High school, and we became friends when we were about 19. And have been ever since. We have been through it all together, and our friendship and Bond has never been shaken or broken. Never. I am thankful for her. For all she does for me, and all she means to me.
I am just thankful in general to be alive, to have survived, but more then survived, came through with flying colors, even giving the hard parts.
So on this thanksgiving when we are saying grace and what we are thankful for, this will be my list.
Health, Friendship, True Love, and Happiness....