...the ability to walk around my garden carrying my hefty D70 chasing bees without my arms shaking (too much)...

...waking up more and more often without a shrieking headache (I could get used to this).

..I'm even sometimes grateful for my Lyme-fogged brain, which makes me completely forget on good days how much my head hurts on bad days (good reason to keep a diary)!

What in your Lyme world are YOU grateful for?

:-)

I am starting to feel human again.

I am thankful my cacti have not died and some of them are blooming.

I am thankful for the clean clothes.

I am thankful I was able to take a bath yesterday.

I am thankful for PJ or came by and took me out to lunch and then for a drive.

I am thankful for the 100 or so Harley Davidson's I saw this morning at Perko's. (Don't quite understand why not one of them was willing to trade my power chair for their Harley??)

I am thankful that Buster behaved himself this morning and we had a pleasant time out.

I am thankful for the case of water that I recently drank.

I am thankful that the house keeper is doing a good job of keeping things clean around here.

I am thankful for the used vacuum that a friend brought over to replace mine that is no longer working.

I am thankful I was able to water the plants this morning and transplant a root bound one.

I am thankful for an air conditioned apartment.

I am thankful for the good nights sleep I got last night....at least until 4:30 am this morning.

I am VERY grateful for this Board!

I was watching my children playing in the rain. I threw off my shoes and went out to join them. We danced and squished mud between our toes. I am thankful that I was strong enough to dance and didn't care what the people driving by thought. I am thankful for those giggles and smiles that come from my kids when they talk about my rain dance.

I am thankful for my little boy's curiosity. A weed is described as a plant out of its intended place. He planted some corn in my flower bed this spring, his first attempt at farming. When it began to grow I saw it and asked my son if he could go pull the "weeds" for me. He said, "A corn is a corn is a corn." So we made a bet about which corn plant will actually produce the most corn and I have 2 giant corn stalks in front of my house growing in my flower bed. He monitors them every day for potential ears and it has turned into a wonderful science lesson. He reminds me that when he wins the bet I will have to buy him an ice cream cone. Today I enjoy the view and fuss less about weeds. For that, I am thankful.

I am thankful for the peanut butter and jelly fingerprints on my windows, for I know that someday the fingerprints will disappear and my children will be grown.

I am thankful that my daughter has a beautiful singing voice and she sings in the shower every day. She makes up songs and most of the time they have a lot of meaning. One day she made up a song about me meeting God and not having pain and I sat outside the bathroom door listening and cried.

.....for my LLMD, who has patience and a heart of gold.

...... that I know who my friends really are now.

.... that I have lost 32 pounds without trying.

.....for very smart people that do medical research and create medications that save people's lives and alleviate suffering.

I used to save my good perfume for special occasions, now I wear it to the hardware store. Instead of saving it for "some day special" we use the "good" china for celebrating little events like the first robin sited in the spring, a day without diarrhea, the mail being delivered on time, or remembering to put the milk away after making chocolate milk.

"Some day" and "one of these days" are losing their grip in my vocabulary. If it worth doing or seeing, I want to do it right now. I'm calling old high school friends and mending relationships and taking my mother-in-law out for her favorite meal. I'm catching up on my photo album journaling and I recently video taped my father telling his life story.

I am thankful that I will never again put off anything that will add laughter to our lives.

I am thankful that I have realized that every day that I open my eyes it is a special miracle and I need to make the most of each day.

Thank you to each of you for sharing your gratitude...

Melanie

Bigmamma,my family and I go to a lake that has clay colored mud all along the shores.We have lake only suits too.

We call it Club Mud when we go.
I'm giving you the title as Queen of Club Mud.I know you will uphold this position to the best of your ability.There is nothing finer!!!

The Club Muds of America also offer time sharing.If you want to come to our club mud for a few days and experience our mud,great.

I'm thankful that I got to inform 6 people about Lyme/coinfections and Lyme testing.

I'm thankful they were all interested and actually grasped what I explained to them.

It was a great day,
Heather

Oh yea! I'm thankful my crazy mom is in California and I'm in NJ.

I am grateful I read about babies being born with Lyme and maybe prevented my granddaughter from having to suffer through all the problems Lyme children go through.

I am grateful for the LLMD's that risk their careers to help those that need them so desperately

I am grateful for this site that has taught me so much over the past several months and that I finally registered instead of just reading all the time. Now I can ask questions and get different points of views.

I am grateful that I don't think I have Lyme, so I can take care of my girls that need me so much.

I am grateful to have a support group for when the people here in Idaho realize they have Lyme and need information, I will have resources to help them.

I am just grateful to be here!!

ICEY