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A blog about my journey with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome including HHV 6, EBV, C. Pneumonia, Bartonella, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and Biotoxin Illness
Friday, May 9, 2008
I finally had to do some relaxation excersises which helped. I also downloaded some music from itunes.
This is a strange journey. I was bemoaning the fact that I'm not able to live life to the fullest right now. I realized my idea of what living life to the fullest is needs to change. I am living life to the fullest right now. It doesn't matter that I can't work or that I can't go for a hike or walk to the beach or be social. What matters is how I approach each day. For me living life to the fullest means being present as much as possible. Rather than worrying about what will happen or might happen or might not happen for that matter, what matters is what IS happening right now. It's all we have really.
I'm learning what matters too are the little things-like listening to a beautiful song, or gazing at the rich colors of a flower, or hearing a baby's laugh, or having a stranger hand me a dollar bill. It's the little things that make it possible to bear the next moment.
Today I went and sat in my car for a minute. This car used to be my mom's. It might sound strange but I wanted to be somewhere that she had once been. It was comforting for me to sit in the driver's seat and remember driving with her. Sometimes I feel her presence.
Abruptly changing subjects-I think there is a third person living here. I've never seen or heard this person. I've only seen the remnants of them-those extra dishes in the sink. I do so many dishes during the day. The other day I had done two sets of dishes, got in the shower and when I came out there were more dishes in the sink. It seems that my days consist of taking supplements, eating, and doing dishes. When I'm not doing that I'm searching the internet for treatment for this illness.
I do wish the third person would pitch in a little more. At least pay a little rent or pitch in for a big flat screen TV.
3 comments:
- Daphne said...
OMG sweetie, you are too funny.
(PS: keep up with the blog! You are a good writer!!)
- May 9, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- Terri said...
EUREKA!!!!! You've FOUND it!!!! And, you're so RIGHT!!!! TODAY is all we ever have. Some of us take a long, VERY long time to figure that out. You're way ahead of the game, Girl. Relax and enjoy this and every moment. They never come again.
This is me, sounding very profound, don't you think?
- May 10, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Lourdes said...
It seems that my days consist of taking supplements, eating, and doing dishes. When I'm not doing that I'm searching the internet for treatment for this illness.
YEP! You summarized the story of my life pretty much for the last couple of years since I had to quit my job. Oh wait.. I should also include TV couch potato (waiting to doze of again from the unrelenting fatigue or simply vegetating with the usual brain fog and intermitent/temperamental low grade-fever) Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
- May 16, 2008 at 1:02 AM


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To continue nursing beyond a year? I am just wondering...right now dh and I are discussing the issue and although he isn't too kean on the idea, he isn't opposed to it either. I just don't want him to be put off by it, and I want him to be a part of the decision. I never thought I would want to nurse this long, let alone beyond a year, so I can understand where he is coming from. Now that I am here, though, I want to continue indefinitely.
And have you left your los overnight with others while still nursing? How? Why? Dh is really concerned that he won't be able to take dd places without me and that we will still be unable to have a night away. I think if I could be comfortable with some of those things, he would be more comfortable too.
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Today, my bus got held up in traffic, so I arrived home about 15 minutes late. My mum bitched me out, accused me of sleeping around, and grounded me. All this while my brother raged at his video game in the other room, screaming stuff such as "EAT SHIT, YOU CUNTS!" with total impunity. FML
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A Port St. Lucie, Florida house was burglarized and vandalized between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. Thursday. The home had a swastika, profanity and hate messages spray-painted inside.
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LaFleur and her husband are originally from Haiti, but she said she has been living in Port St. Lucie for nine years. Her husband joined her at their home in July 2011.
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"I just found out everything I believed to be my reality wasn't reality at all," said Manti Te'o in an interview on "Katie."
In the tell-all interview with Katie Couric, Te'o explains the strange story of how he fell in love with a woman he knew as Lennay Kekua. Now, for the first time we hear the voice that Manti thought was hers.
The voice said, "Baby, baby I just called to say good night. I love you."
Te'o says their relationship developed strictly online and over the phone, even though he gave misleading interviews indicating the two actually met.
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Show up on time and everything's fine
I thought when I finished my military service that I had met damn near every "type" of person/personality there is out there.
You really do meet "all kinds" of people in the Army.
But I haven't, I'm not even close.
As I rapidly age, I'm starting to figure out that life is about learning everyday and growing as a person, not about thinking I know enough about people to make the statement I did in my first sentence.
Ok, that's deep for me.
On a different note, this just came to me, I'm not saying that nobody has ever said this before, or been quoted saying it, but it just popped into my head.
Quote from me: "Half of marriage is being able to admit when your wrong, the other half is being able to tell her she's right".🙂 I've got half of it down.
If your married you'll get it, if your not, well I'm sure you'll find someone.
Ever get the message on your computer that says "Password will expire in 10 days, do you want to change now?
I'm curious, do you change it right then, or do you procrastinate?
I'm sure exactly how long you wait to change it says a bunch of crap about who "you" are, and what type of distinct personality you have.
I don't want to know about all that, I just want to know if anyone else puts this off to the last day?
I even factor in weekends. It's similar to mailing your taxes on the last day I suppose.
I'm not exactly sure why I wait, I guess I just don't want to change it unless I absolutely have to. I don't succumb to peer pressure anymore.
What about those stupid little punch cards businesses give you to con you into frequenting their establishments more often.
You know, the little business cards that say buy 7 and get the 8th free or offer a discount.
Check your wallet or purse, you probably have a couple.
In my entire life, I have not ever redeemed one of these. I lose the F'n things before I ever even come close to the freebie.
I'm sure people might say that the inability to redeem one of those cards says a lot about my personality too.
No it doesn't, it means I hate those freggin little punch cards, nothing more, nothing less. Want my business? Throw me a freebie every now and then, and don't make me work for it. I'll come back.
I don't need any more crap in my wallet.
Oh, I hate those little hand held punch things, I don't like the clicking sound they make.
Wait,…I'm not done yet.
Hello retail America (excluding organic grocery stores), it's now nine days before X-mas.
You know, the time of year where a business makes it or breaks it.
I have to believe you're scheduling a full crew of cashiers to handle the mobs of people… right?
I mean the faster you ring-em and sting-em, the sooner you can do it again, right?
But exactly who we blame for the long lines becomes a bit sketchy.
Like I just said, I can't fathom the idea that during X-mas a busy store would have twelve available registers, and only three cashiers ringing up product.
Two of whom have been waiting to go on break.
All I can figure is it must be mass employee call outs.
I'm sure some of the employees are legitimately sick (this is the cold and flu season), the rest probably call-in sick so they can finish their X-mas shopping.
Do you see the climax I'm building to here, if the stores schedule a full staff, and half of them call in sick, and the other half of them go shopping, you've just added a huge influx of people to this shopping side of this equasion, and a down flux of cashiers to struggle with the overload.
There's no balance and nobody wins.
That is why we have long lines during X-Mas.
It's not the exactly the stores fault (schedule extra cashiers just in case), it's more the cashier's lack of work ethic.
So props go out to the cashiers that show up for their scheduled shift.
It's a good thing you do, you keep America moving.
It was awesome the way I broke that down,…..I got skills.
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Have to agree with you on the employees at stores. Would it kill them to thank you AND could someone teach them to make change? I worked an F.W. Woolworth's when I was in High School (yes, I'm dating myself!) and believe me , you gave the penny or 3 cents or whatever and I could make change. Now? Give the cashier the penny after they've typed in the money and they can't do it. It totally confuses them. I have to say I find myself using the self-check if a store has it so I don't have to deal with the cashiers. And nice to see that you know that your wife is always right!
Julia…Happy wife=happy life. I carry a debit card so I can make the transaction/interaction with the cashier as quick and as painless as possible…D
Speaking of passwords, I have so many passwords that I can never remember the damn things when I actually need them. I try to use the same passwords for everything, but every site has a different stupid rule. Small case, upper case, letters, numbers, symbols, retinal scans, fingerprints, hair samples, voice recognition, ahhhhh!
When a guy has passwords to access passwords, you know there's something seriously wrong.
I hate passwords like you hate little punch cards.
Nice rant, BTW…
Happster-Thx, I feel you totally on this one, I can tell you from experience that having the same password for all accounts is a BAD idea. I once did that, and it was a mess.
Julia, that particular saying was a freebie to me, so feel free to use it…lol…D
D — Can I quote on that to my husband – happy wife = happy life! lol!


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