{"id":116,"date":"2014-02-18T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:21:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:21:50","slug":"fighting-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/2014\/02\/18\/fighting-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Cathy Garrott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each day we all must face the unknown. We never know what might happen that will suddenly turn our world up-side-down. Just as my diagnosis of PD came totally out of the blue (when I had been assured it was something else) turning my life into daily struggles I never expected, I am reminded that there are other things that could do the same \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 stroke, cancer, death of a loved one, dissolution of a marriage, etc. There are all sorts of dragons that could rear their ugly heads and bring chaos into my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The challenges I must deal with every day because of PD pale in the light of the suffering that others are facing each day. I can&#8217;t let one victory cause me to forget the challenge that is still there, but when I realize that victory is possible I am to pursue it with all that is within me to do so!\u00c2&nbsp; I must never assume that I will be able to go through life without facing challenges of one sort or another. I must forget what is behind and not be hindered by what is no longer available to me, but press forward to what is ahead \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 to do my best to win the battle laid out for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cathy Garrott Each day we all must face the unknown. We never know what might happen that will suddenly turn our world up-side-down. Just as my diagnosis of PD came totally out of the blue (when I had been assured it was something else) turning my life into daily struggles I never expected, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parkinsons-disease-rants-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-thrivalist.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}