Nevermore } logs and scenes

[Friends Only]

This Thanksgiving I am thankful my brother and sisters could be with Maji, Freddie and me while we are celebrating in our home. We have Charys with us too, and so Freddie also has a sibling present, which is just so nice! I'm grateful my leg is doing so much better, so I could help out in the kitchen. I can get around so much more easily, though carrying things is still out unless I'm in my chair. Can't carry things with crutches. And on that note, I am thankful that my specialists all think that I can start working on the PT with my prosthetic in the new year! It's being built now, and I keep getting updates about it. I am grateful for all of this.

I am also grateful for a super hottie mayor getting elected - seeing someone who looks like me get elected in NYC is...truly incredible. Representation matters. Baba would be so excited to see it.

I'm more thankful than I could ever say, that Freddie is my partner. I actually don't really have the words to express this, so just- Just know I'm gesturing wildly.

More than anything? I'm thankful I'm alive. In a half an hour my family is going to gather around the table and share a meal together. It was imagining moments like this that kept me going in that horrible place, and now I get to be here and experience it. I get to listen to Arya animatedly tell Avery everything about the new Predator movie while Deepthi, Carys and Maji gossip in the kitchen. Freddie has his hand on my knee while I write this waiting for my rolls to finish warming. Life is pretty great.