Dear Walt, I always feel very privileged when someone here shares their pain as well as their joy with the list. I am so glad that you feel like you don't have to go it alone. I'll be thinking very positive thoughts for you as well. I think a lot of us are in the same age bracket, and I am reflecting on how we now discuss our health issues where ten or twenty years, it wouldn't have garnered a second thought.
I am in my mid forties and have type 2 diabetes. Even though it is a chronic condition that is difficult for most to accept, what I am trying to do is to embrace my age and my ailments while trying to fight to keep them under control. It's like I really know that many on the list understand where I am coming from, and could probably tell me a story or two. I pray for the strength to look life right in the eye and live it despite the setbacks. I just wish I could have done it in my younger years. So as you go about getting a diagnosis and/or treatment, keep believing that everything is going to turn out all right, and keep fighting to maintain that hunger and thirst for all that life has to offer. I'll keep sending those positive thoughts your way. Love, Sherelle > Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 15:51:08 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: (njc)My health -- long and detailed, more than you probably want > to know. > > In a message dated 5/12/02 11:00:17 AM, AsharaJM writes: > > << Thanks, guys. I just found out today that i may have toxoplasmosis in > my > brain, which would explain my walking like a drunk and not being able to > think of words all the time -- or there may be a brain tumor. >>
