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

Talk about great minds etc... Even to the minute!!! Please see "Incite Hope" thread.

Thanks for your empowering post and thread.

Remember it, say it and live it next time you herx.

Here ya go...

"In electricity 101 the first thing you learn is this, 'Where there is a negative, There must ALWAYS be a Positive.' "

Boooy, are we gonna be strong after all this is over!

Dance as if no one were watching,

"...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.)

Either Fear will Master YOU
or
YOU will Master Fear, BUT

There will be a Master

Me

------------------

Attributed to Edmund Burke,
1729 - 1797

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.)

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

Never had a kitten, cause I wasn't that kind of cat.

They are a blowed-up peanut peddler

are more like they are now...

We kicked it's royal butt!!!"

"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
when the skies are clear and blue,
there's no joy in merely doing things
which anyone can do.

But there is some satisfaction
that is mighty sweet to take,
when you reach a destination that
you thought you'd never make."

ENJOY!

Winston Churchill said:
"We make a living by what we get,
and we make a life by what we give."

"We can do no great things -
only small things with great love."

The spirit of the posters inspires me as well as the posts themselves!

Thanks for the "uppers."

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.

And remember;

"For those with a vision,
Accomplishment is the true reward!"

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

Whoa.

A wise women once said: " No one can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody."
--Unknown

Ain't it the truth?

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

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and enobles those who wield it. It is a sword that heals."

cws

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!

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.

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??

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

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

Sizzled.

Your poem rocks the house.

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.

Sorry--it didn't show up the first time!

``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.

favorite saying: Lead, Follow or get out of the Way!

"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

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.)

"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. "

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