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"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... "Instead look at life as being like a butterfly, 'we have to go through changes before 'we become something beautiful."
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- Country:
- USA
- USA? What state?
- New York
- City:
- Rochester
- Sex:
- female
- Name of Illness and Year
- Encephalitis/Meningitis 1996 - 1997
- Your role? (Caregiver, Survivor,...)
- Survivor
- Relationship Status:
- Single
- How do you spend your time?
- MAKING FRIENDS!
I'm in college, something I don't no how to acheive YET, is how to have "SPARE TIME?"
What is spare time?
- What Are Your Dreams For the Future?
- TO BE ALL I "CAN" BE!
TO STRIVE TO REACH THE TOP!
I want to be a "TRAUMA COUNSELOR".
- Favorite Music:
- I love music!!!!
- Favorite Musical Artists: (Notice... it's plural now!)
- MANY ARTISTS!!!!
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Hi, Ms . B e a u t i f u l ! ! !
Did you know that it's Beautiful Women Month?
Well, it is and that means you and me. I'm supposed to send this to FIVE (or more) BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, and you are one of them!!!
~~ Beauty of a Woman ~~
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears,
The figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes,
Because that is the doorway to her heart,
The place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,
But true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the caring that she lovingly gives,
The passion that she shows.
The beauty of a woman
With time, only grows..
- Favorite Movies, Actors and Actresses:
- A walk to remember, notebook.......
Emm.... I'll get back to you on that!!!!
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"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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Just Thinking of You Today!
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Thank you for being my friends.
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Thank you Stephen!
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WOW!
It's me Hope, guess what?
Oh, I'll tell y'all I made honors and I start inturning in Dec.
WoW! I'm doing it WOW!
Posted on October 21, 2009 at 11:26pm — 6 Comments
Not only finding myself after "E", but learning to find myself as a mother!
I had to be strong for my son.... ?
But I'd often wonder, what is being strong... really?
My son needed to see.... in me that I was a fighter and that I was not about to give up, but, I just was not sure how much to show him of this illness and how it was affecting me?
I'd often ponder in my mind asking could he really understand?
Although, I would keep questioning myself.
There were no answers.
But, I… Continue
Posted on May 17, 2009 at 4:26am — 2 Comments
Waking Up to Reality
“Nice ***,” I said to my sister after six months of listening but not being able to see or talk. All I can think of now, is what happened to life? Where did it go?
When I was a child, my sister was the one I looked up to and the one who seemed to have all of life’s answers, even though my sister is only three years older than me. Sometimes I wonder if she ever was able to be a child.
We grew up with a mother who was dirt poor, even though she worked a lot and was never ho… Continue
Posted on January 7, 2009 at 4:28pm — 17 Comments
My life began again a turn around you might say! I began a new way of thinking and feeling, at that …
My life began again a turn around you might say! I began a new way of thinking and feeling, at that time that I was so unsure of, before Sep. 30th 2004, I still struggle but, the difference is I can admit I need help.
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Posted on July 18, 2007 at 3:59pm — 1 Comment
Fighting For "LIFE"!
Posted on July 16, 2007 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
Hello all, and welcome to my page, I will share with you things that are special to me!
Posted on July 8, 2007 at 12:00am —
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Got a....former friend (loose terminology - he's been crap support, but the lesser evil) who's recently gotten engaged and, after a prolonged absence from speaking with me, sent an engagement party invitation under the full expectation I'd go along. I told him I'd think about it and get back to him in order to buy some time and come up with a good way of telling him I'm not really hanging on contact from them anymore.
I couldn't, so I told him the truth that I'm in a transitional phase of recovery, that I'm trying my best to get on with life and capitalize upon improvment and that I've simply moved on with my life and would rather not go, adding in a sincere apology also for my coldness.
His reply was surprisingly undefensive (we were best friends from way back and also worked together before I went to China) but I sensed he was irritated by my unexpected reaction in a, 'How dare he say that? This is a huge occasion in my life' sense of the word. I know what I did was right because I don't regret having said what I did and know it wasn't insulting either.
You ever had someone you moved on from, in the friendship sense, just reappear after you felt over their absence from your life? How did you react, assuming so?
So, today I decided I'd had enough of this one lady ignoring me and contacted her boss asking why this is so and where she is and would he please give her a hurry up to reply. I don't enjoy complaining like that, but she's effectively slowing my recovery and...that...is...too...far - no one stops my doing everything possible to improve and get well, I'm not a violent person, but I don't allow others to push me around or be ignorant.
Still, the sun is shining and I've finished gym, time to hit the books before tea.
How long you still got in your year left to go? Looking forward to the break? Any plans?
(PS - CONGRATULATIONS!!!!)
How's your study year shaping up? Do you feel more confident about things now? How are your studies going right now?
Just noticed something - where is that background of the tree line photo taken with the setting sun in the top half of your page?
You sounded happy to be at Friday in your comment - an obvious way to feel, but anything especially about this Friday your relieved to reach? Tougher week than usual?
I went to see the job agency thingee on Thursday and they suggested the same thing the hospital did : proofreading/editing. I now feel like pursuing this is possible, unlike last time it was suggested and it felt like a bad joke so, despite opposition from family at doing it ("Just get out there and do 'it'" - they said, what 'it' means I'll never know because I couldn't be doing anything more to improve if I tried), so, I told myself, 'Screw them, just do 'it' - your own definition and the one which has stood by you the whole way through recovery and made things go pretty well to date' - so I'm going to clasp the ironic wings of opportunity (doing 'it' despite the 'it' preachers disagreeing with my doing anything except what they want) and give this a go.
Been quite a testing time, actually : sickness compensation review coming up (hate those), gym fees just paid (expensive), absent friend suddenly asks me to his wedding (wanker - I just wanna forget about them now), beginning to believe the presyncopal lightheadedness is 99% gone, except in very nervous situations (darnit), tv guy fixes aerial and ruins reception in my room (damnit), and now family pressure to just do 'it' - that which I've busted my butt to try and accomplish and very nearly have and which they don't see that I'm obsessed with regaining the capacity to actually do. It's all well and good to tell someone to just do 'it' and play advocate for their apparent need for further proactivity, but when the person in question is actually exuding proactivity and literally doing everything possible, their pestering comes across more like mindless nagging.
I tell ya, it took getting sick to begin to feel in mentally better shape, but the physical aspect is just less speedy to follow suit despite slowly doing so and everyone around apparently oblivious to that fact.
Enough about me, how are you doing? You've certainly been less present online of late, everything ok? Sign of the times, I guess, let me know how you're doing.
Just as a last note, I'm beginning to post personal blogs each Sunday until this sodding illness finally skidaddles and I'll also post a second, funny vid aswell. When I do the same next Sunday, I'll delete the fine video and post the funny one in the 'Need a Laugh?' page, so it'll be slower to load, but still around (I wanna start adding personal vids to that).
Keep trucking, Hope, I think you're doing amazingly well!
How are your studies going, anyway? You'll be nearing exams wont you? Feeling confident? What, if anything, are you concerned about in terms of the end of this year?
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