To want to hear some GOOD News?!

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Long story short... I’m not whinging or a woe is meing...

I lost my Dad in April 2019 - it’s now under investigation with the Health Ombudsman as the hospital knew he was going to die, didn’t tell us and thus kept discharging him.
Add insult to injury I had to register his death on my Wedding Anniversary. At the time we got married. 🖕🏻😩

Then, at the end of August we found out that my Mum’s Best Friend (like my second Mum growing up) who lived in Spain was seriously ill, and died before we could get to her.

October... My husband managed to chop the ends of 2 fingers off. In front of our 10 year old.

November... We found out that one of my Husband’s really close friends had cancer of the Esophagus and passed away on 1st December. He was only 28.

2020 Covid arrived...

Someone please, tell me about your GOOD news!! 🤪😩

Oh bless you. Sounds appalling. Sorry you're having such an awful time. xx

I don't have any really good news, but expecting some later on all being well.

Though, my dad has an appt on Friday with a private surgeon. Hopefully he'll agree to do the replacement, ending 4 years of agony for him :)

Fingers crossed for you for this afternoon and for Friday 🥰

My good news is that after an utterly shitty few years, (involving cancer, bereavement, life-limiting diagnoses, betrayal by our closest “friends”, loss of hopes and dreams, unwanted repatriation away from the place we’d made home and much more) we’re still here. We’re still standing, DH and I are still very happily together, our D.C. are resilient and we are slowly coming back to life again.

There’s nothing big, no miracles, no easy roads, many more hurdles than we could ever have imagined, but somehow we’re still walking forward. We’re still surviving and we get glimpses of light at the end of the (very long) tunnel. We’re not there yet, but we’re slowly getting closer.

It’s not fancy, it’s not miraculous, it’s not a “wow” story, but it’s good news for us because there have been plenty of times over the last 6 years when I honestly thought there was no hope and we literally wouldn’t survive.

God that does sound rubbish. 2020 has been a particularly stressful year so far, but this is my good news: yesterday DP received a letter with an appointment date for this Friday to get fitted for a CPAP machine. He had his sleep study done just before the first lockdown so it's been ok hold since then. The doctor he saw requested an urgent referral once he mentioned our first child is due at the end of November as his sleep is so bad he can fall asleep while we're having a conversation and was having an apnoea 90 times an hour with severe oxygen desaturations. I'm so pleased for him and excited for him to be able to feel human again and be proud of his daily achievements once more instead of just needing to sleep constantly, and to feel confident that the baby will be safe with him.

thank you. :) I'll update if it is good news :)

I fell in love with my baby.

She was born in 2019 but I really struggled with PND and although it all got a lot better and I thought I loved her, something just clicked in about May, when she was about 15 months.

I am utterly, totally and completely overwhelmed by the joy she brings. I adore her and cannot imagine life without. So that is my good news!

Oh bless that’s a lot!! Good news is coming for you I’m sure. X

Sounds really hard op.

We had a horrendous 6 months a few years back. Bereavement, hideous sale of a relatives property, we had to move house, redundancy, serious illness.....

It sucked. But you know what? We made it. Every time something else shit happened, we just dealt with it as best as we could & just kept going.

Better times were around the corner. We just had to keep moving forwards.

One of my friends has just given birth to a beautiful baby, after several miscarriages and years of IVF. He's gorgeous .

This sounds a really hard year OP

Some good news:
I loved reading (on facebook which is not my natural habitat) about 89 year old Flo Osborne who lives in sheltered accommodation in Dovercourt . She has spend many lockdown months baking more than 100 pies - for the old and 'needy in her community. Amazing!

I also liked reading in my local paper about rabbits being pesky in a local graveyard.

This is good on two counts:
1 that rabbits are making a comeback from a recent nasty virus (a good omen for other species with other viruses -we hope) and

1. that this is the worst news the paper could find for the day. All most reassuring.

I stood by the sea yesterday and watched the tide come in with big rolling waves breaking on the shore. We watched a storm sweep across the water, gradually approaching the headland while we stood in a narrow band of sunlight, ready to run to the car when the rain reached us.

There are huge migratory skeins of pink-footed geese flying overhead at dusk each day, making a really loud honking noise. I saw two murmurations on my way home today.

There's a tawny owl hanging out in our sycamore tree, hooting each evening.

The garden is full of bright, firey colours.

Oh, and I'm very excited about starting the renovation project on our new kitchen.

All really small, inconsequential stuff that matters nothing to anyone but me and mine. But it brings pleasure to my day and makes me feel so much more content and at peace with the world.

I hope your fortunes turn op.

Good news - it's conker season! Such joy in finding a semi open case, opening it up and revealing the gorgeous, glossy conker inside...

Ds2 Finally went to school for the first time in months last week for a 3 day assessment (he's waiting for a yr7 specialist autism place) he was finally able to join in the morning routine again with his twin - whos been at school since Sept... he spent all of Friday whistling with happiness 😊. School are happy to have him so just waiting for paperwork to go through, and we will get that boy ALL the school uniform he wants :)

I can update with the good news I was waiting for when you first started this thread. My mum's skin cancer has not spread. :) :) :)

She has dementia, and is 72, and it was rough getting her through the surgeries. I really was worried about what would happen if she needed treatment. But no further action needed. All good. :)

I've just managed to identify the very strange whooping call I keep hearing at night as a tawny owl. We never, ever heard birds at night around here until lockdown - now I have heard both tawny owls and little owls calling regularly. Silver lining of lockdown, perhaps?

I really hope your luck changes soon OP

So sorry you've had such a bad year OP. I have a new nephew born this year he is the most gorgeous baby I have ever seen (and I have kids 😂)

I live in NZ. Jacinda has just announced her cabinet and it's the most diverse cabinet ever. Summer is coming. I'm off to walk the Routeburn track this summer - can't usually get a ticket for love nor money as they are snaffled by tour agencies catering to overseas tourists. This year not so much.

Lots of good news, uplifting stories, funny anecdotes & stuff to make you smile here:

www.facebook.com/groups/1043372732715180/?ref=share

🙂