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I woke up feeling really lovely today. The birds are chirping and the blossoms are hanging lusciously off the trees in my yard. The world is so beautiful, with or without illness. The beginning of spring has made me feel so grateful and I just wanted to share my gratitude with everyone on this site, everyone who has answered or read any of my posts...
I feel so fortunate to have a network of people I have NEVER met who are willing to extend compassion and kindness to me when I need it so desperately. It shows how wonderful human beings can be and how connected we all are to one another. Sometimes the sense of community is forgotten in our fast paced money driven society, and I feel grateful to feel it here.
So thank you so much to everyone of you. May we all be healthy and full of joy!
So much love,
Hannah
Every one of you (every one
Every one of you (every one being two words) not "everyone of you."
Here here!!!!
Here here!!!!
Every single night, I write down whatever little or big things I am grateful for. it helps a lot.
Very well said! Thank you
Very well said! Thank you Hannah fornhour beautiful post. I too practice gratitude everyday...even for the bad things. It makes a huge difference in my life and my healing :)
"for you" :)
"for you" :)
'your"
'your"
Claire- I am laughing because
Claire- I am laughing because I am usually the queen of typos!!!!
Well, at least you all can
Well, at least you all can spell. I am grateful for spell check :)
If we don't excel at health, the only other option is disease.
Haha! I know that was crazy
Haha! I know that was crazy earlier...ahhh trying to multitask...just can't do it with this damn IC - LOL!
Can't seem to feel very
Can't seem to feel very positive today. My vulvodynia (vaginal burning) is flaring more than usual. This symptom has been with me for so long with not much relief with treatment. It has hours of less intensity but thats about it.
It has been 17 months and I have had improvement - but not more than several days with mild symptoms. I really don't like getting this down but I am truly so tired of pain.
I have the okay to start list 3 - but feel I can't because I am not at a point where I would be able to tell if the new food is bothering me because I am in constant discomfort with one part of me or another.
I still have this whole body itching and I think can this really still be die off or is it the immune system going a-wall still.
I just wish I would turn one corner for good somewhere.
Thanks for listening - had to get this sadness out of me.
Breis
I like the notion of writing
I like the notion of writing down gratitude "even for the bad things." I will have to think on that and perhaps we can expand on that. Maybe bad things are sometimes good things in disguise? In any case, we know that we learn from the pain. Boy do we ever. I guess there was that expression I thought about a lot when we were traiging my son from autism " that which doesn't kill me makes me strong." With IC, one certainly feels on the knife edge of that sometimes. Breis and Ally and others who are suffering, i am thinking of you today. I hope each of us will find the peace that we deserve!