Day 94 of Happiness: Let's Look on the Bright Side

Today was not my happiest day - I went from one doctor to another trying to figure out why I keet having sharp pains in my right abdomen.  Unfortunately the radiologist tests won't be back until next week, so let's hope it doesn't get worse.  How is this a spot of happiness you might wonder.

Well, while waiting in the radiologists office I was reading Runner's Magazine.  There was an article about thinking positively - instead of saying "I have to do this" and "I have to do that" it was about saying "I get to do this" and "I get to do that."

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It sounds stupid but it actually works.  I kept thinking, I "get" to take off work to go to the doctors and I "get" to go to the doctors and I "get" to have an abdominal ultrasound and I get to to go to Massanutten this weekend (ok, that's not hard to turn into a positive).  Anyway, it made me think that I'm lucky to have good insurance and to be able to go to the docs.  Even though this abdominal pain is quite painful I know that eventually someone will figure out what's going on (or it will go away, which is what I'm hoping).  And in the mean time I got to see some internal organs on the ultrasound machine!