{"id":3579,"date":"2013-08-06T19:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2013-08-06T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T02:00:25","slug":"make-the-best-of-the-way-things-turn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/make-the-best-of-the-way-things-turn-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Make The Best Of The Way Things Turn Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I sit here at the hospital tonight, following my daughters second ACL surgery that took place earlier today, I am trying to reflect on what lessons I have learned in my life today so I can share those thoughts with all of you.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny how just sitting around in a hospital waiting room all day while you wait for your child to get out of surgery can cause you to be totally and completely exhausted.\u00a0 But that is exactly what I am feeling tonight, exhausted. \u00a0I suppose that comes from sitting in worry for hours on end as your little baby (yes she is 17 but she is still my baby girl!) is out of view and all you can do is wait to see if she is okay.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing how much you can love another human being when they are your child. It truly is.<\/p>\n

I am so grateful that my daughter\u2019s surgery went well and that she awoke okay from her anesthesia, especially after the last surgery when she had to go on the breathing machine because they couldn\u2019t get her to wake up on her own.\u00a0 This time went much more smoothly and once she was awake from surgery she immediately wanted her cell phone so she could post a photo of her in her hospital bed to post on instagram to let her friends know she was out of surgery and okay.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I knew she was going to be just fine.\u00a0 They have kept her pretty doped up since the procedure to help regulate her pain.\u00a0 But all in all she is doing as well as could be expected and I have made the little couch in her room into a bed to sleep on so I can stay with her tonight.\u00a0 If all goes well through the night they will let us go home tomorrow to the rented hospital bed waiting for her there.\u00a0 They need her to stay in bed for the next 7-10 days so we have once again turned the family room into as much of a bedroom as possible with plenty of rented movies to try and keep her entertained while she is stuck in bed.<\/p>\n

Tonight she showed me a picture she created herself using a quote she found and placing it on one of her favorite pictures.\u00a0It’s a picture she then posted on her facebook wall.\u00a0 She said it will be her theme quote for going through this trial:<\/p>\n

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“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.”\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>What a perfect quote for any of us who are going through a hard time of any kind.\u00a0 I absolutely love it and I am going to write it up on my mirror in my bathroom at home so I am reminded of it every day.\u00a0\u00a0 It is perfect!\u00a0 And so that is the lesson I am reminded of today – I am reminded that its up to us to make the best of things of every situation life gives us.\u00a0 Sometimes its hard to do.\u00a0 Sometimes things are scary or sad or frustrating in life and you just want to curl up in a ball and cry…I know because I have felt like that the last few days…but thank heavens for people like Ashley that remind me that curling up in a ball does nothing to make things better – the best way to make things better is to DECIDE TO!\u00a0 It not about what life deals you – it’s about how you deal with the hand you are dealt.\u00a0 We have to choose to make the best of things.\u00a0 We have to choose to be positive and charge forward doing the very best we can to do make things better.\u00a0 We have to make the very best of the way things turn out.\u00a0 So that is my lesson I am learning today – to choose to make the best of whatever is going on in our\u00a0life right now.<\/p>\n

Have a great day tomorrow everyone! And thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you who have given prayers and support to my family. You bless our lives tremendously.<\/p>\n

With love,<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I sit here at the hospital tonight, following my daughters second ACL surgery that took place earlier today, I am trying to reflect on what lessons I have learned in my life today so I can share those thoughts with all of you.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny how just sitting around in a hospital waiting room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,168,500,101,46,60,410,63,999,240,163,551,83,1653,51,93,189,7,30,76,29,244,65,837,55,1774,1768,629,771,1771,296,64,35,1765,630,53,770,1772,1769,1770,1488,1773,490,112,275,149,347,1766,344,1767,173],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acl","tag-adversity","tag-appreciation","tag-ashley","tag-attitude","tag-beautiful","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-child","tag-children","tag-courage","tag-daughter","tag-experience","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-fear","tag-friends","tag-future","tag-gift","tag-goals","tag-god","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-great","tag-happiness","tag-hard-time","tag-hospital","tag-inspiration","tag-inspirational","tag-instagram","tag-lesson","tag-life","tag-love","tag-make-the-best","tag-motivate","tag-motivation","tag-motivational","tag-pain","tag-parent","tag-parenthood","tag-perfect","tag-quote","tag-reminder","tag-self-improvement","tag-stress","tag-success","tag-surgery","tag-things","tag-trial","tag-turn-out","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}