You can only post on this baby if your adding....Arnald says; "Dahts da rool, baby."
Here's mine; (for now)
"Now is the time in your life to find the "tiger" within. Let the claws be bared, and Lyme BEWARE!!!"
Troutscout
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Talk about great minds etc... Even to the minute!!! Please see "Incite Hope" thread.
Thanks for your empowering post and thread.
cws
Remember it, say it and live it next time you herx.
Be the tiger.
Snicker! Puff! Snicker! Puff!
Ride the tiger.
And if the situation demands that you must take the tiger by the tail, become the tiger.
Here ya go...
"In electricity 101 the first thing you learn is this, 'Where there is a negative, There must ALWAYS be a Positive.' "
Hey, and to think I made these up.
Ben Franklin
Joseph Campbell
Tagore
Boooy, are we gonna be strong after all this is over!
Dance as if no one were watching,
And live every day as if it were your last."
"...and I have miles to go before I sleep."
Robert Frost
"Keep your eye on the prize." (For me that
is my health and remission.)
--Di
Either Fear will Master YOU
or
YOU will Master Fear, BUT
There will be a Master
Me
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May God Bless you every day. And Never say never and do not give up no matter what. We need you to help others.
Attributed to Edmund Burke,
1729 - 1797
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Author Unknown
Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or greater intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change."
Robert Kennedy
Vaclav Havel
(Said shortly before the unexpected dissolution of the Soviet Union while Havel struggled as president of Czechoslovakia.)
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I also recommend the weekly *Now* program with Bill Moyers on PBS for a life-affirming approach to current events. You can read the text of the programs at pbs.org choosing "Now* at the prompt.
cws
we can start now to make a new ending" 
Never had a kitten, cause I wasn't that kind of cat.
They are a blowed-up peanut peddler
Love from the bones.
are more like they are now...
than they ever were.
We kicked it's royal butt!!!"
Had to get this to the top again...RatFan needs it.
Your the bees knees
"If there is no wind, ROW!"
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
"There's no thrill in easy sailing But there is some satisfaction
when the skies are clear and blue,
there's no joy in merely doing things
which anyone can do.
that is mighty sweet to take,
when you reach a destination that
you thought you'd never make."
ENJOY!
Hugs,
Stella
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James A. Fourde
Cindy ><>
Winston Churchill said:
"We make a living by what we get,
and we make a life by what we give."
Saint Jerome:
"It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance."
"We can do no great things -
only small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa
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Now is the time in your life to find the "tiger" within.
Let the claws be bared,
and Lyme BEWARE!!!
My New Website For Lyme
www.ildf.info
The spirit of the posters inspires me as well as the posts themselves!
Thanks for the "uppers."
cws
Here is a blurb from a poem I wrote about my Lyme Disease. I have it on my mirror, so I can remember I have a goal, and will get better.
" I want to wake up in the morning, and feel alive, and pain free. So, I'll keep on taking the medications, and Pray for victory."
~ Missy (Brat)
About 8 months ago, I was trying to decide if I should take my Infectious Disease doctors advice, to accept that I was cured from Lyme, and that the pain was in my head.
OR.. should I go see a LLMD, and get a second opinion. I was debating this one night with my husband, when he reminded me of his favorite quote:
"If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice" by Geddy Lee
He told me that if I didn't go to the LLMD for a second opinion, that I chose to decide that the Infectious Disease doctor was right.
Soooo.. I made the call to the LLMD the next day. And real glad I did.
~ Missy (Brat)
And remember;
"For those with a vision,
Accomplishment is the true reward!"
Trout Scout
A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region in Africa to study the prospects for expanding business.
One sends back a telegram saying:
SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES
The other writes back triumphantly:
GLORIOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES
"Only a man who has felt untimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss." -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Whoa.
TS
A wise women once said: " No one can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody."
--Unknown
Ain't it the truth?
Love,
Ang
Love your post.
To put it a more prosaic way,
"You have to experience a bad toothache before you can realize how wonderful it feels *not* to have a toothache."
cws
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"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and enobles those who wield it. It is a sword that heals."
cws
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All New Yorkers with a concern about Lyme disease please email [email protected] to get on the nylyme email list. You can help save access to adequate care nationwide.
It takes strength to fit in,
It takes courage to stand out.
It takes strength to feel a friend's pain,
It takes courage to feel your own pain.
It takes strength to hide your own pains,
It takes corage to show them.
It takes strength to endure abuse,
It takes courage to stop it.
It takes strength to stand alone,
It takes courage to lean on another.
It takes strength to love,
It takes courage to be loved.
It takes strength to survive,
It takes courage to live.
If you feel you have neither, May the world hug you today with its warmth, and love.
And may the wind carry a voice that tells you there is a friend Sitting in another corner of the world wishing you well!
-author unknown
I think that courage is something that grows with practice, like a muscle.
It also is important to have at least one good role model.
Luckily we've got great role models among the LLMDs and others and lots of opportunity to practice.
Just watched a video "Dietrich Bonhoeffer:Agent of Grace" the German theologian who was executed for his defiance of the Nazi's one month before the liberation. Powerful!
I'd be happy to lend my copy of the video to anyone "known" to the Lyme community (a support group leader who can vouch for you , etc) who would like to see it.
cws
Would love to see the video....but you don't have to send it to me....do you think I can find a copy at Blockbuster or something??
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oops!
Lymetutu
Yes, Bonhoeffer is someone we should hear more about. I don't know if I would have made the same decisions as he did, but it I do want to know more about him.
I could not locate the video through blockbusters. It is available to buy through PBS. (Item number BAOG801, "Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace", $24.95. To order phone 800-645-4727 or shopPBS.com.)
Maybe your library or place of worship or civic group would be interested in ordering it. This is a film that could be also used as the basis of a discussion group.
If any LLMDs are interested in making this or other inspiring films or some books on advocacy available to their patients, I would be happy to start a loaner advocacy "care package".
Hugs,
cws
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Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
Sizzled.
Your poem rocks the house.
Trout Scout
The phone number to order the film on Bonhoeffer is 1-800-645-4727. The order number is BAOG801. Cost is $24.95. (Ordering info is now also posted on my revised previous post.)
This film is morally, intellectually, and artistically compelling. It won the Best Film award at the 2000 Monte Carlo Television festival.
cws
Trout Scout
Sorry--it didn't show up the first time!
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``Thy eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures.
May the love for my art actuate me at all times; may neither avarice nor miserliness, not thirst for glory, or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children.
May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.
Grant me strength, time, opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements.
Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today.
Oh God, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling.''
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
favorite saying: Lead, Follow or get out of the Way!
Oceangarden
"Mourn not the dead, but rather the apathetic throng- the cowed and meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrongs, and dare not speak."
With thanks to the many courageous people in the Lyme community. You inspire me.
Love,
cws
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"WE ARE LIVING ART,
CREATED
TO HANG ON,
STAND UP,
FORBARE,
CONTINUE,
AND ENCOURAGE
OTHERS"
Also- 2 links that are very inspirational- wether you are religious or not- check these out-
www.theinterviewwithgod.com
www.pathwaystopeace.com
Best, Melanie
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*COLORADO SUPPORT SYSTEM*
[email protected]
Here's a quote that lifts my spirit, for this my friends I see true in my life. (Forgive me for being away from Lymenet for so long, but please know that I have not and will not forget you.)
With Much Love,
Stella
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C O L O R A D O * S U P P O R T * S Y S T E M
[email protected]
-- Winston Churchill
Joan
Hang in there everyone!
"You have written me not to give up. Perish the thought. I am, unfortunately, just so bloody exhausted. Further all the joys in my life are now forbidden-no chocolate, no wine, no sugar, no rice-this in south carolina, how could you-no potatoes, no flour-what no biscuits, no cakes, no pies and what are we supposed to eat. boring green vegetables and meat. and no wine and no chocolate.
I shall have to propose a TOFU diet. Tofu, the most boring food in the world. It would probably cause the spirochetes to commit mass hara kiri out of sheer boredome
We could have tofu roast beef, tofu sugar, tofu chocolate cake and tofu lemon merangue pie. Oh joy. "
as written by Thomas Parkman
My comments as to how you would know what to do when faced with the adverse reactions of others, when to stop antibiotics or switch treatments
"....THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO HAVE A DETERMINATION EQUALLED BY NO ONE. To actually know...that you, and only you will win in the end. Even if that means throwing away everything you own and walking back into life with nothing but the things you hold dear to your heart....the least of which should be your own self preservation."
Trout
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"Anyone who thinks they are too small to make a difference has never been in bed with a mosquito." -- Dalai Lama
(or a tick for that matter!!!)
What you accept, you teach.
Thoughts become words
Words become actions
Actions become habits
Habits become destiny
Choose Well
In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life."
"You're nothing short of my everything."
"But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever."
"I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you."
- Patrick Overton
-Thomas Carlyle
"Our greatest battles are that with in our own minds"
-Jameson Frank
Trout-you said you wanted some newbies to post, here ya go!!
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Young N Infected
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying where there seemed to be no hope at all.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do; something
to love; and something to hope for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Mother Teresa - I know God will not give me anything that I can not handle; I just wish he didn't trust me so much!
how about:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the people i cannot change...
the courage to change the one i can...
and the wisdom to know it's me!
quote:
Originally posted by trish:
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
i love that trish
i'll add one more...
"the year is young and does not know
wee violets sleep beneath the snow.
the ermine-tipped oak is silvered by night.
and the pine is a pyramid of white."
charles g. stater
Not sure if this was posted already, but I love this saying... I have it hanging on my wall as a reminder:
If I Had My Child To Raise Over Again
If I had my child to raise over again,
I'd finger paint more
and point my finger less.
I'd take my eyes off my watch,
and watch with my eyes.
I'd take more hikes
and fly more kites.
I'd stop playing serious,
and seriously play.
I'd do more hugging
and less tugging.
I'd be firm less often,
and affirm much more.
If I had my child to raise over again...
I'd teach less about the love of power
and more about the power of love!
~LymeBrat
Drive carefully -- it's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
Emily Dickinson
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked,while your own conscience approved you,and absolved you from guilt,you would not be without friends.
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may it be a morning star/shines down upon you/may it be when darkness falls your heart will be true/you walk a lonely road/oh!how far you are from home
Believe and you will find your way/a promise lives within you now
may it be shadow's call/will fly away/may it be your journey on/to light the day/when the night is overcome/you may rise to find the sun
a promise lives within you now
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