My Daily
Challenges...
In 1988 I was diagnosed with an incurable disease that forced me to go
on disability at the young age of 30, and leave the job that I loved at
a Medical Practice. The disease is Interstitial Cystitis.
I had hopes and dreams for my future, to go back to school for nursing,
to have the energy and stamina to be a wonderful mom and partner to my
husband... the disease abruptly stopped me in my tracks...
I thank God for blessing me with a family that loves and accepts me as
I am, on the good and bad days. Without their love and support I
would have let these conditions take me hostage!
I am not saying
I don't still have horrible days, when getting out of the bed and getting
dressed are a chore, but they have helped me to cherish the good days and
to know that this too shall pass... to not give up!
If you would
like to learn more about my conditions visit the links below...
Interstitial
Cystitis
Fibro
Myalgia
Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome
Teach Me How
Teach
me how to let go of my dreams, career, goals.
Teach
me how to not envy.
To
not be disappointed.
To
not have anger.
Life
has changed too fast.
Teach
me how to accept the changes..
changes..
in
my life..my strength, my future.
Everything
seems so empty now.
The
pieces of my life lay under me now.
I
don't know how to fix the broken pieces.
Teach
me Lord.
Teach
me how to find peace.
This was written at one of my low times in
my life when the illnesses seemed too big to handle...
"When it's been that kind of day baby. When
everything is not what it should be. Everybody's had their say baby..let's
just say today is history ...
And keep keeping the FAITH,
everyday, keep keeping the FAITH, don't give it away" Keeping
The Faith By Mary Chapin Carpenter
Janice...
This
is a picture of my best friend Janice taken in Carmel California. We met
over 6 years ago at a support group for sufferers of Interstitial Cystitis
and have become very close since then.
We
have been there for one another through numerous sleepless nights, hospital
stays and tears...
I
feel truly blessed to have her as a friend.
"Some people have never been the lonely kind...
never called a friend in the middle of the night... just to hear a voice
say.."it's okay"..... You took a long night and turned it
into day... And so this has to be a sudden gift of fate...you're nothing
less to me than a sudden gift of fate...It's not as if it
comes down to your turn that someone somewhere feels you've earned... you
just learn to wait..
for sudden gifts of fate..."
Sudden Gift Of Fate by Mary Chapin Carpenter
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