I couldn't have said it better than Linda. You have more than surmounted obstacles and situations that would have destroyed those with less determination and drive than you.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam