I have a new motto starting today. (As you’ll come to know me, I have new motto’s all the time…some stick, some don’t….but I have good intentions!)
So yes, my new motto:
I am not going to let anything in life stress me out.
No matter what.
Why the new motto? Not only because it’s a good one, but...
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” ~ E. E. Cummings (1894 – 1962)
This is one of the many birds that reside around our property…isn’t he beautiful??
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt...
You would think that by now, considering I’ve been dealing with chronic illness for a long time, I would know my limitations. Apparently, that is not the case. I think that I’m staying within my body’s very controlled boundaries, only to find…too late, mind you….that I have exceeded them and now I will have to...
I am a huge fan of the TV show, “Mystery Diagnosis.” It always amazes me that there are so many people out there, like me, who go through years of being misdiagnosed before finally getting a concrete answer. My family and friends always joke around that I’m going to be on that show one day....
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Here is Mike and my youngest brother, Isaac, standing in an old battle bunker. Very cool place!
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)
I’ll try to update you as simply as possible on my health over the last several months. Not too much has changed. I’m still having the “pins & needles” feelings in my hands/arms/feet/legs and I still have times of severe muscle weakness and fatigue. I went to see a new neurologist to rule out Multiple...
