I agree with the doggie - I recently (today) realized the absolute impact this site has had as I had a moral dilemma thrust in my face regarding past acquaintances who have seen it beneficial to themselves to re emerge and ask me to attend one of their upcoming occasions. This site has allowed me to discuss this issue and note down todays feelings on the matter so that I can see if they're the same tomorrow while also obtaining input from others - I'd be just plain angry by now if I didn't have somewhere to think things through in a written way - pen and paper is *so* intensely boring - Anyhu, like the dog says (I used my gift credit already, sorry, I would have used that instead).
I was just coming onto your page to pay my thanks for all that I feel this site has provided me with - where people in my life were negative and skeptical about my getting out of their preconceived and prejudicial thoughts that I was destined for no hope and an indefinate period of brain injury, such people are now silent or absent with embarrassment as it seems they were very, very, completely, wrong.
This community contains people who are the opposite of my past critics in my area : instead of criticizm and ill conceived disappointment, I've instead been blessed by meeting a fine collection of people who see only progress - how to achieve it themselves, and curious about how I am progressing aswell - a haven from the negative skeptics in the 'real world' (ie not online).
My page has become my addiction, like progress made in recovery, hearing the dismissive and pessimistic rabbitings of over paid know littles (neurologists re : encephalitis), and instead learning how to overcome it, and progress revolves, in my experience, around building something and working at something slowly until you one day realize you're actually happy with what you've created.
I changed the appearance of my page today and, as I did, I stuck around for an hour or so just listening to the music I got on my page, because *every* single song I have there is one I love, with a plethora of others which could make the list go on indefinately.
I've rediscovered my former music addiction and built it around recovery and the construction of a page I'm now happy with : it has grown with the redevelopment of my health, and without that collection of creative potential, for which this site has in vast abundance, my recovery would have meant little to me long ago, instead of what I get up thinking about in the morning, what I go to bed knowing I'll dream about at night, add, add, add, and don't stop - period.
That last point is the ultimate one this site has taught me - develop a beginning and never, ever, stop.
Your creation is making an humungous difference in my recovery and I thank you infinately.
Oh My Stephan, Survivors sure is gaining interest, I am happy for you and the sight. It grew pretty fast, didn't it? Did you have a birthday ? Well double congrads to you !
Y'know, I recall when I was 18 years old in 1998 and I heard Metallica covering that Bob Seager song, 'Turn the Page' - I originally thought it was a Metallica track because at the time I'd never heard the Seagar version. I bought the Metallica album and played it over and over, realizing soon after that it's a cover album, but arrogantly missing the point which I feel the band was trying to make : an acknowledgment of previous great musicians with a wealth of musical appeal influencing a currently global phenominon who can take a soft and melodic track like 'Turn the Page' is and convert it across from a bluesy, country sound, to a modern soft-metal equivalent and at the time I didn't care about the Bob Seager version and arrogantly discarded it as I revelled in the Metallica cover version and overlooked the point I now feel they were making : that a wasn't a failure on their part, but mine in not taking the time to see that Metallica were paying homage to a musical great and an influence in the sound of a band who are part of what I feel made me who I am today : I thought on this a few years back and heard the original Bob Segar (spelling?) version and heard why Metallica chose it and how they themselves translated it into the unbelievable hard rock cover which they made from it and I began to see not only the value in recognizing that which influences your life and emotional status, but also how to see that sometimes even those main influences in all our lives are also influenced by something which preceded it.
Because of this track I bought some Blue Oyster Cult (Metallica covered them aswell) and some Nick Cave (him too) and looked for others while beginning to see that, while I love Metallica to bits and they've helped make me who I am today, even they were created from things which preceded them and that which was preceded by something else and so on.
I often think upon points like this and see that everything worthwhile doing is more often than not made so by something which inspired it to become what it is in the present, like 'Turn the Page' became from the Bob Seger original, into the Metallica cover.
When I get up and kick this stupid disease around my area each day, I see that viewing recovery with the determination I try to present is as a result of who came before me : my incredible family to whom I owe my life, and like 'Turn the Page' is about the hardships of life, my life at present is also containing difficulties, like your own or anyone else here : 'Turn the Page' is not only a song covered by rock icons who are Metallica and originally performed by the legend who is (still alive? I dunno) Bob Seger, it's a lesson in tolerating the difficulties in life which the song goes into and seeing hardship present all around, and it's also to me a way of recognizing that which makes you who you are right now : that's a great track, I'm happy to now be familiar with both Seger/Metallica versions and I feel that's a song which we can all take something from.
Incidentally, my heartfelt thanks for telling me how to embed stuff on the site : I feel like a teenager who's been given the keys to dads car : though I think I'll drive to the speed limits and not overdo it.
Hope you and Elizabeth are doing well, your site continues to be one of the main reasons I still believe today that this illness will be a memory sometime in the future, and why today I still tangeably see no reason to doubt that admittedly lofty ambition.
Your responses remind me to keep it real, but to also simultaneously aim for the top in one giant level-headed package, maybe I'll see yourself as being my Bob Seger (minus the sob story) - take care!
.......Thank you Stephen for giving me sanity, with this network you have created, I have found some great new friends who have helped to keep me on the road to recovery. I do have good & bad days as always - but the support this network gives keeps me in the driving seat (of my life, not a car!!)........
Ooh, I love the updated music panel - it just seems cooler somehow (genuinely) - I'm greatly looking forward to getting to know everyone further on this site this year - those who I'm lucky enough to know here really seem to be moving forwards with what they're doing and each person I converse with speaking of goals and aims or whatever else forces me into similar self evaluation and ambition - this'll be a big year for people here, mark my words - to heck with the silly global financial crisis - actually, forget I typed that at all, tis a silly thing to dwell on.
Kudos to yourself and Elizabeth for this site, love it!
Was so nice to see you and Elizabeth again. Also to meet the boys. Carol enjoyed seeing you again. She commented about you on way home. Yep she rememberes you. Stephen gave her post cards. She also was listening to our conversation, how Trevor helped you find way around town and remember what you were suppose to get a grocery store. Carol's hearing is excellent she was probably listening to every word Elizabeth and I said. LOL.
Hopefully we will be able to get together this summer. Larry is already checking on tickets for football hall of fame and Rock N Roll.
Bye for now Debbie
thankyou for that, my partner had there worries it mite be a type of epilepsy, i also get the jerks to, you are the first person i have found with the muscle spasms the encephalitis society had not come across the problem with muscle spasms very often . i am having a mri scan in 9 days and see my neurologist so hopefully i will find out a bit more, they have never given me a mri yet only a ct scan , i think my other big problem is my digestive system . it is a shame that we all live so far away from each other, but the internet is a wonderfull thing.
Well i always give my partner Anthony space to Surf the waves as this is his escape from the pressure my condition bring to him - although he never shows this - He just knows that he will always be here for me & our son Kai -
As for the tat well what to have is my biggest prob. I initially want a feminan pic of a lotus flower blossoming into a new life but this is so common & I am so individual! Also I will have to be in the right place to have one - as over here we don't have any recognized tatoo artists - so I am sure the right moment & picture will reveal itself to me.
Your story sounds amazing & being true to your self & definately worthy of marking your body.
How do you otherwise spend your days do you work?
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I agree with the doggie - I recently (today) realized the absolute impact this site has had as I had a moral dilemma thrust in my face regarding past acquaintances who have seen it beneficial to themselves to re emerge and ask me to attend one of their upcoming occasions. This site has allowed me to discuss this issue and note down todays feelings on the matter so that I can see if they're the same tomorrow while also obtaining input from others - I'd be just plain angry by now if I didn't have somewhere to think things through in a written way - pen and paper is *so* intensely boring - Anyhu, like the dog says (I used my gift credit already, sorry, I would have used that instead).
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This community contains people who are the opposite of my past critics in my area : instead of criticizm and ill conceived disappointment, I've instead been blessed by meeting a fine collection of people who see only progress - how to achieve it themselves, and curious about how I am progressing aswell - a haven from the negative skeptics in the 'real world' (ie not online).
My page has become my addiction, like progress made in recovery, hearing the dismissive and pessimistic rabbitings of over paid know littles (neurologists re : encephalitis), and instead learning how to overcome it, and progress revolves, in my experience, around building something and working at something slowly until you one day realize you're actually happy with what you've created.
I changed the appearance of my page today and, as I did, I stuck around for an hour or so just listening to the music I got on my page, because *every* single song I have there is one I love, with a plethora of others which could make the list go on indefinately.
I've rediscovered my former music addiction and built it around recovery and the construction of a page I'm now happy with : it has grown with the redevelopment of my health, and without that collection of creative potential, for which this site has in vast abundance, my recovery would have meant little to me long ago, instead of what I get up thinking about in the morning, what I go to bed knowing I'll dream about at night, add, add, add, and don't stop - period.
That last point is the ultimate one this site has taught me - develop a beginning and never, ever, stop.
Your creation is making an humungous difference in my recovery and I thank you infinately.
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Because of this track I bought some Blue Oyster Cult (Metallica covered them aswell) and some Nick Cave (him too) and looked for others while beginning to see that, while I love Metallica to bits and they've helped make me who I am today, even they were created from things which preceded them and that which was preceded by something else and so on.
I often think upon points like this and see that everything worthwhile doing is more often than not made so by something which inspired it to become what it is in the present, like 'Turn the Page' became from the Bob Seger original, into the Metallica cover.
When I get up and kick this stupid disease around my area each day, I see that viewing recovery with the determination I try to present is as a result of who came before me : my incredible family to whom I owe my life, and like 'Turn the Page' is about the hardships of life, my life at present is also containing difficulties, like your own or anyone else here : 'Turn the Page' is not only a song covered by rock icons who are Metallica and originally performed by the legend who is (still alive? I dunno) Bob Seger, it's a lesson in tolerating the difficulties in life which the song goes into and seeing hardship present all around, and it's also to me a way of recognizing that which makes you who you are right now : that's a great track, I'm happy to now be familiar with both Seger/Metallica versions and I feel that's a song which we can all take something from.
Incidentally, my heartfelt thanks for telling me how to embed stuff on the site : I feel like a teenager who's been given the keys to dads car : though I think I'll drive to the speed limits and not overdo it.
Hope you and Elizabeth are doing well, your site continues to be one of the main reasons I still believe today that this illness will be a memory sometime in the future, and why today I still tangeably see no reason to doubt that admittedly lofty ambition.
Your responses remind me to keep it real, but to also simultaneously aim for the top in one giant level-headed package, maybe I'll see yourself as being my Bob Seger (minus the sob story) - take care!
Kudos to yourself and Elizabeth for this site, love it!
Hopefully we will be able to get together this summer. Larry is already checking on tickets for football hall of fame and Rock N Roll.
Bye for now Debbie
As for the tat well what to have is my biggest prob. I initially want a feminan pic of a lotus flower blossoming into a new life but this is so common & I am so individual! Also I will have to be in the right place to have one - as over here we don't have any recognized tatoo artists - so I am sure the right moment & picture will reveal itself to me.
Your story sounds amazing & being true to your self & definately worthy of marking your body.
How do you otherwise spend your days do you work?
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