Dear Joyce in HamburgFor a while I though to answer in German because Hamburg harbour in Germany is the only I know. Ha Ha.
Sorry if I'm joking, I want catch a smile on your face.
You say: " I am still having trouble accepting my limitatios". Oh yes, you are right but if you continue to think in such a manner, besides the physical course of your IBM, continuosly downwards, slow or fast, anyway downward, you force also your morale and mood to follow this way and you CANNOT ACCEPT that. Easy to say, but not so easy to do.
Well think that in Italy lives a new friend and IBM colleague whose life was till about years ago was normal. Before problem in the studies, than in the work, moreover when the children are young how many problems? In 1995 my wife and "Guardian Angel" at the beginning of July diagnosed by herself a colon cancer and before the end of the month was already operated. In the sept of the same year began my IBM. Just one year before we said: we have a cottage in my native Valley, a house (leaved by my mother-in-law) in Venice, the wonderful town on the sea. The sons are grown, we can pass few months among the mountains and same on the beach. Mocking destiny.........to be short: some days I lie in my bed, the eyes to the ceiling and think when we stretched down in a flowered meadow feeling the breeze coming from the bottom of the valley caressing our faces. Believe me, the situation is certanly changed nowadays, but step by step we regained the original mood.
Life is well in spite of all and worthy to be lived. Not so smooth, obviously, we too have echonomical problems, daughter crying for a broke love, son not able to have an own apartment for the too high cost.....
No more, I hope to haven't bored you. Suzy, who in these days cannot post here, wrote me time ago: "fight one round more". The same I wish you.
All the best.
p.s. did you notice I am autodidacte in English? I did !!
Giancarlo/IBM - Italy........
I cannot give any medical advice, However if you e-mail or call me, I hope to be able to keep high your mood