How to Catch a Good Day!

Good days are sneaky and hard to catch. Once you finally catch one, it turns into a chameleon, blending into all the turmoil around it, until you hardly notice it's there at all.

If you don't watch it, a good day will hide from you and sneak right past you. You won't even know it was there until suddenly one day you have a bad day again, and you start thinking, "I feel terrible. I felt so much better last week when I was the host parent for the kids' swim team. It seems like I had so much energy that day. What happened?"

So...how do you "catch" a good day so you can enjoy it on the spot?

1. Log how you feel at least a couple of times week. I use my blog posts for that purpose sometimes.

2.  Mark your calendar to gauge how you're feeling following changes to diet, medication, or activity. Follow up a week, a month, and 3-6 months after your changes took place. 

3. Be aware. Are you walking better today? Did you sleep better last night? Do you have more energy than you did last week?

4. Listen for clues from other people who comment on how you look, or on your energy level. My husband is my primary caregiver, and he has been telling me what a difference he's seen in me lately.

5. Evaluate your daily productivity, compared to your daily accomplishments a week or a month ago.

I've been particularly blessed of late. I've had multiple consecutive good days, and I've taken note of them and enjoyed them to the fullest. My good days are becoming the everyday standard again, and I am blessed to be aware of them as they happen. And I know why they are happening: the addition of carbodopa/levadopa to my daily regimen is making a world of difference for me.

It all comes down to awareness. Watch for that sneaky little good day, catch it by its tail, and ride it for all it's worth when you can! Don't let it pass you by unnoticed.

And what do you do when you find yourself in the middle of a good day? Why, you celebrate it, of course! You share it with someone. You revel in it. You do something special with it. You let it make you a better person.

And, most of all, you give thanks for it.

Thank you, God, for this good day.

Let me share it with you now. Here's the song I listened to today to celebrate another good day:

Fernando Ortega, This Good Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7nZVtZFE0A