I am starting to feel a little better at least the breathing is getting easier. My breathing has been so raspy, I am told it can be hear from the next room, HM. When you have congestive heart failure breathing is an issue to begin with. It is not like you have trouble breathing, it is just you are almost always short of breath. I am sure everyone can relate to one of those chest cold where you feel so congested it is like you just can’t quite get a deep breath. Well put the 2 of them together and you are constantly huffing and puffing. OK, enough whining for today, I have a chest cold, I know, “poor me”.

As I wrote that a thought just came to me. I am a lucky man. Here I am complaining about breathing issues. I think poor me, here I have been fighting this “chest cold” for over a year now. I realize I am letting it drag me down a little. I get feed up with the constant huffing, puffing and wheezing. It seems to almost clear up but then suddenly comes back with a vengeance, each time seemingly worst than the last. OK, yes it is getting worse. But, I think in my own mind I am maybe letting it get to me a little more and through that feeling it even more.

I need to give my head a shake and really see things in proper prospective. I am a lucky man. There is no doubt about that. There are so many that have it so very much worse off than do I.

OK, talking to myself: “You are focusing on only one small part of the big picture of your life. Look at the big picture of your life as it is even just today. Yeah, this breathing is frustrating and annoying but really it is a pretty small part of the overall picture. You are still breathing be grateful for that. Fine you can’t walk up a flight of stairs or take a shower without huffing and puffing. Put a positive spin on it, that also means you can’t go out and shovel snow when it is -40, now you have to like that. You are lucky compared to so many, think of those that have been in pain, agony for the past year suffering so much. Here you are feeling sorry for yourself for a little shortness of breath. Shame on you.”