I am in NC too. Not the best state for Doc's up to date on Lyme I have learned.

I know how frustrating this can be. Furniture polish is pretty lax. I think your handling it pretty good under the circumstances.

I see you are in FL now. I thought I had to travel far to see Dr J.. WOW. I will stop complaining.

My daughter is a left handed but she plays right handed. go figure. She plays the same positions I did.
I played second and pitcher. I coach girls fast pitch. I head up the Softball program in our district. I pitch train girls ages 6 and up. I do it all on a volunteer basis because I just love it. I have had to call in more help this year and missed alot more days though and that makes me sad.

I always try to drag my sick but out there though.

I hate that you guys got hit so hard this summer. We were really scared. I live in the eastern part of NC and we got alot of flood damage by Floyed. Fran was not good to us either. We thought we were due for one. We could not believe what you guys had to go through there. Our hearts and prayers went out to you.

Our church and school collected canned goods. Several men from our Church went to Florida to help with clean up.

I do think that it is amazing how people work together to help their neighbors in time of need. Like you said even your enemies can become your friend in times of trial.

Thank you for the kind words. I have had times where I have had to pick myself up and slap myself around to get myself back in focus.

I have always been a strong person but this Disease has brought me to my knees more than once. I have just had to learn to dig deeper to pick myself up again.

My faith is in the good Lord upstairs. My moto is "My strength is in him!"

Cindy

I hope you can get the help you deserve and need! We will help you in any way that we can. Just ask!

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Lymetutu

Welcome to LymeNet!

BUT... I need to advise you of something.

Hope you don't mind.

Ok.. Just to set you straight. We have rules here.

There will be NO kicking big duck butt...

Unless I can play too!!!

HA!

I'll hold them down.. and you can kick them.

OK?

And then we can take turns!

They suck! Especially FLORIDA ducks!

Glad you are here.

How can we help?

And PLEASE...

Ignore that weird-o with the droopy drawers!

OK?

She is a strange little goat..

But we love her!

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If you get the choice to sit it out or dance...

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Originally posted by Tincup:

And PLEASE...

Ignore that weird-o with the droopy drawers!

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HEY! I resemble that comment!
Here's another dancer for ya, TC! Can't find my dancing stickman.

I know how you feel. Countless times I have had medications trown at me too. "Here is something for anxiety", "It's anxiety", "You would not believe what anxiety can do to your body", I got sick of it. Then they would get sick of me because I would refuse to take their drugs!

I would say you have no clue whats wrong with me so how do you know your drugs won't make it worse? They never had and answer to that one.

One Neuro even sent me to a shrink to be evaluated and she sent a report and said that my symptoms were not related to anxiety and that I was depressed but it was BROUGHT ON BY my medical issues NOT THE CAUSE! HA!
That still wasn't good enouph for him because it blew his theaory.

Guess he sent me to the wrong shrink!

Hey Tincup I'll take one side and you take the other while Teri gives the work over. Then we can all switch off!

My body doesn't work all that well either. And the mind thing that is about out there with the alziemers patients. I can't spell either so don't feel bad.

With the way my pitching has been lately you would need a real big glove!

Don't feel alone the rules post worried me too. I have only been here a couple of months.

The sugar foods mess me up really bad. I am learning that I have a problem with yeast too. I am new too Lyme so I don't know all the details but I do know that when I eat sugary foods it messes me up. Even a simple glass of sweet tea can sent me dizzy. So I satay away from them. I do crave them sometimes so I try to find sweet tasting stuff stuff with no sugar added.

A big old ho ho ho..

(A laugh.. not the other kind!)

Our new member.. can not remember her name right now.. said,

"I have the body of a 110 yr old and the mind of my puppies (don't chew my shoes tho)"

HA! She's a funny one.. no doubt. I am still giggling.

Woah.. Softball mom. You shocked me just then. You said..

"I played second and pitcher. I coach girls fast pitch. I head up the Softball program in our district. I pitch train girls ages 6 and up. I do it all on a volunteer basis because I just love it."

I actually had to scroll back and be SURE it was YOU writing that.

My own dear mother.. if she would have written about what she did when I was growing up... it would have read the exact same as what you just wrote!

She loved softball with a passion... and so did I.

When my mom was "growed up" and had little ones.. me and a few more.. she started coaching girls fast pitch softball.

She adored it.. but it was a lot of work. She also coached our team in the winter.. girls basketball. And she managed the district too!

Once I became too old for "girls" softball.. I played WITH my mother in a women's league for 18 and over... which she also coached.

All the years I played I wanted sooooo much to play short stop. But I had to pitch. I enjoyed it.. but because there were no other girls who could pitch and hit a barn.. I got stuck there the whole time.. unless I had to rest.. then I played second base.

Keep in mind... I pitched because most of the time I could hit the side of a barn... but I was no superstar.. for sure! But our team had the most fun of all of them.

Since we lost most of our games.. we weren't under a lot of pressure.. and we had FUN.

HA! On a rare day.. we would actually win a game.

Boy oh boy.. did the team who lost to us feel bad! I use to feel sorry for THEM!

What a thrill when we won! Pool parties.. pizza.. and sleep overs. We won maybe two games a year.

But we had umpires fighting among themselves to be able to ump our games. Never a dull moment... and we laughed the whole time!

Although some of it WASN'T funny!!

One day.. while sliding into second base.. I split the rear end out of my jeans. Everyone was so concerned about the tumble I took.. I didn't know I had split them at the time.

My mom made EVERY girl on the team SHUT UP and not say a word about my pants being split open.

I played the rest of the game that way... on the PITCHERS MOUND. When I found out after the game was over.. of course I was horrified. I asked my COACH.. my mom... why she did that.

She said if she would have told me that my pants were split.. I wouldn't have been able to concentrate on my pitching.

I can't BELIEVE she did that.. and THEN thought it was FUNNY!

Thanks for bringing back these nice memories.

Tutu.. Could ya find a more "cool" dancing partner? This fellow looks like he may need to boggie down on Jupiter.. certainly not on THIS Planet! HA!

And I should be picky! I sit here alone.. with the only men around the farm being so involved with deer, ducks, and geese that if I were standing on my roof with my hair on fire.. no one would notice. HA!

Softball mom... It's a deal! We will whoop them together.

Hey Florida toast...

You said..

"I want to thank you for the beautiful moon last night. Since you are there, any word about a full moon tonight??"

Just for you.. another BEAUTIFUL moon tonight.

Enjoy!

Nice to see another player. This spring I quit playing just after a couple of games. I was playing on a slow pitch league. But because of illness I found out I just did not have the endurance to do it anymore. I took a line drive in the shin. Any other time I would have had it. I still have a knot, no feeling and discoloration. I managed to play the game out but I made it my last. At least until I recover.

It really hurt to walk away. Coaching really means the world to me. This spring will make 8 years. Last year my 11 & 12 year olds came in second in their leage and and I took 8 of them to allstars. I had never coach Compitition before and misread the rules. We got protested in the bottom of the 4th in the game that would send us to the Championship game. Illigal pitching! I pitched my daughter too many innings the game before. So when she threw her first pitch in the 4th they threw us out! We all cried We were only 2 down and were on a roll.

We will get them next year. We are pretty compeditive. I have a year round program. Start training 3 teams in August 8 to 10, 11 &12 and 13 to 15 once a week. It runs through the end of Nov. Then cranks back up in January.

We went several years without winning at all though. And we were like your team had alot of fun. But even now after knowing what it ws like to loose we are respectful winners. We never stomp anyone. I never let my girls give rude chants or disrespect the other team. If we are winning by alot I will put in my slower pitchers to give the other team a chance.

This year I was so sick I had to call in alot of help and missed more days than I liked. Some of the Varsity Softball girls help me out alot if they are not playing fall sports.

In OT there is a Family photo topic that has pictures of my kids with my Daughters Pitching photo in it.

I know what you mean about men. Mine is involved in deer and coon though. He doesn't get involved with the ducks and geese much. But coon hunting is a night sport so just think mine is gone night and day.

Does this constitute that we have hijacked Teri's thread with softball. Sorry Teri.
Women can get sidetracked very easily especially me. I am a motormouth anyway.

TC.....I kinda liked that dancer. He looks really hip! Or is it just because his hip is out of joint??

Hey girls......about those sugar cravings. If you eat sweets while on abx you WILL get systemic yeast, which makes you crave sugar even more! Don't do it!

Candida elimination: http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/021412.html
Lyme symptoms list compared with yeast symptoms http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/021202.html

I used to play softball too! I was really good at it and could play any position even tho I was really small. I was under 5 ft tall and weighed about 70 lbs when I started playing at age 11.

I never pitched a game, but I loved playing catcher and short stop. I was also good at 3rd base and 2nd base. I had older brothers and knew how to throw that ball with the best of them.

I can't say I was a power hitter at my size, but could get on base and steal my way all the way around to home! hehehe...just call me Flash!

Uh oh......TC's gonna run with THAT one!!

Catcher is my hardest position to fill. I had the best last year. But she moved to Illinois over the Summer.

My daughter is a little tyke too. under 5 ft and she is 13. She is very Athletic though. She made captian of the Volleyball team this year and just made the Basket ball team.

I think when you are small you have more to prove. So you try harder than the rest. She never gives up on anything. Don't dare tell her she can't do something. She will die trying!