Tracy9
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Forget the Bucket List!
I was laying here thinking of things I really want to do when I get better. It started with a commercial that showed kids doing karate, and I thought of how much I wanted my son to be able to go to karate, but for the last four years he hasn't been able to be involved in any extracurricular activities.
So, I started my "Better List"!
Better List:
Cody - karate lessons Friends over Photography class Cooking class Yoga Church Date night Family night Vacation
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The same question was asked recently in a local support group. Most said they wanted to travel again and visit people.
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feelfit
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Better List:
Serious Exercise Socializing Advocating for Lyme Improved relationships Thinking of a life beyond sickness
Happy, Happy, Happy
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adamm
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Make a career for myself in classical music
Spend some time actually thinking about something other than this disease
Do all I can to educate others about the atrocity we are faced with
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Geneal
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My better list.....
Keeping up with my children all the time
More laughter
More smiling
More energy
Coke icees' (I really, really miss those!)
(Can I add in chocolate cake, Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, etc?)
Maybe take up my job again ( which I loved/love)
Continued grass roots efforts to educate/advocate about Lyme disease.
Attend a rally and meet all of you remarkable people.
Enjoy the cold weather again. (Love fall and winter...now it makes my hands and feet too cold!)
Go play in the snow!
Hugs,
Geneal
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lymielauren28
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Wow, I'm feeling really emotional today and this thread brought tears to my eyes. Some days... I forget to dream and who I was before Lyme disease... Anyways, here goes!
Eat every kind of cake, cookie and pie ever made
Make concrete plans without obsessing over how I'm going to feel on that particular day.
socialize (and enjoy it rather than faking and wondering when I can get back home and crash)
Dance until I drop at least once a month.
Have a LARGE glass of wine
Have children.
Spend my money on fun stuff rather than every med/supp. under the sun.
COFFEE (Oh how I miss it!)
Help others get through this mess that is Lyme.
Gosh, just get back out into the world again in every way possible!
Thanks Tracy, for reminding me to dream.
Lauren
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Get down on my knees & pray and the tears I shed will be tears of joy this time Laugh Practice making children (Already have 4) Enjoy every minute with my family, back to kite flying, bike riding, annual trips, beach till late hours, walks, homework again Stop dreaming of feeling better...
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kam
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Turtle travel....
I have been looking at different ways to travel with a camper on a truck or a van like vehicle that is set up to camp, or a tent camper that has a place for aTV's only mine would hold my power chair.
I'd like to go to the Grant Canyon, Grant Tetons, Yosemite, Canada's National Parks, Alaska, Northern Ca, Oregon, WAshington Coast, EAst Coast, Big Sur Area, SAn Luis Obispo County,
..more to be added
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Geneal
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I sat in bed and thought about this last night and bam!
Okay I am a bad mother.
My better list would have to focus on my children being symptom free.
Both of them.
I would gladly continue treatment the rest of my life if they would get better.
For good.
Hugs,
Geneal
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kam
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I am praying that both you and the kids are symptom free Geneal.
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Geneal
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Thanks Kam.
I hope you are doing well.
Missing you....hopefully no more tropical systems and I can be here more.
Hugs,
Geneal
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Go on vacation with my family Eat in a Restaurant Eat Pancakes Eat dinner with my family every night (the SAME dinner as my family) Go out with my friends Go on a trip with my friends Go back to college Get my driver's license Get my first job Take some sort of art class (photography or painting) Start taking yoga classes Join a church and a church group Volunteer in special education classrooms Write again.
And the list goes on. I could go on all day. But we'll just start with these!
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kam
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Great list little lymie
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kam
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One choice I came up with.
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