I Will Not Take These Things For Granted Lyrics

Lyric discussion by bloodybitch 

Cover art for I Will Not Take These Things For Granted lyrics by Toad the Wet Sprocket

This song makes me think about when I was in the hospital. I was bounced from hospital to nursing home to rehab..back and forth and back...for a year to the day...after being in and out for the previous six months....for various infections and physical rehab flollowing an extended icu /hoapital stay. You don't know how much you take for granted until you lose it. . The telephone was my lifeline to my husband and chikdren, they were 22 miles away. I got to see them a few times a week. My 3 year old I saw more often ,she onky had a half day of school then so my parents sometimes brought her for an hour or two while my 6 and 7 yerar old were still in school. My 7 year old was afraid to come sometimes, it upset it. him.
I didn't get outside for 10 months excwpt transferring to and from ambulances to go to dr appointments.You take for grasnted the sunlight on your face, the feeling of fresh air on your skin., the feeling of grass under your feet. You don't knowt until you don;t have it.