Sunday, August 3, 2008

Day 40; what a milestone!

Mundane day quick clean up, did some laundry, but I swam for about an hour before lunch. I found talking to the almighty can be done from anywhere at any time.
But motivation to exercise has to come from within, no one else can do it for me.

Today I am not so sad anymore.
We seem to resolve our differences by ignoring them at times; not such a bad thing when it works.
Denial seems to work with a lot of things I have noticed.

People with major illnesses that do take the time to treat them appropriately medication wise, but don't harp on what's wrong with them seem to do well.
My only problem with that is that I have gotten involved with the organizations as a volunteer because of my ills, http://www.arthritis.org/ and ://nationalmssociety.org/index.aspx. (Copying these and pasting them to your search wagon will get you there.) And it does make it harder to not harp on an ill that you are raising money for, teaching how to manage or explaining to Newbees about.

But I have cut back from all that and now most of my help is as an advocate by signing letters for different bills in the capitol to make sure our Representatives do the right thing for us, and this is done online when notified from the main offices of the non profits.

Anyway, it helps me to feel that in some small way I can still make a difference, and maybe find a cure.
Everyone should have something they believe in to support.
My problem for years was that I had too many, that bleeding heart liberal thing I mentioned before, and I didn't know how to say no.
Having those seven types out of the 100 kinds of arthritis and also having Multiple Sclerosis narrowed my fields down.
But every disease needs to be helped. And in this tough economy it's hard for everyone to think out of the box if they are thankfully well.
Who would have thought that in the 21st Century we would still have half of these diseases; I sure didn't.

I have often found that helping others helps you to forget your own problems, and sometimes puts them in a much better perspective.
So I highly recommend volunteering for your sake and all those others you will be helping.

Someone once told me I was wonderful because I volunteer, and I had to tell them the truth is that I do it for purely selfish reasons, because it makes me feel so good!

Which way will the war go?

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