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LIVING
FORWARD - "IN
SPITE OF"
CHRONIC
CHAOS
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"It
is in moments of illness
that we are compelled to
recognize that we live
not alone but chained to
a creature of a
different kingdom, whole
worlds apart, who has no
knowledge of us and by
whom it is impossible to
make ourselves
understood: our body."
~ Marcel
Proust
"The
time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at
your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's
welcome and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was
yourself. Give wine, Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the
stranger who has loved you all your life. Whom you ignored for another,
who knows you by heart."
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January 25, 2011
Welcome to the
continuation of my online
journal. I maintain my journal
now as a blog. It is the same
blog using two different
formats: Living forward - "In Spite
Of" and Chronic Chaos.
I will be monitoring to see which
one is the most pleasing to the
reader. Feedback will be
welcome in helping to decide. You can access
either blog by
clicking the links above.
My
blog consists of my thoughts and
experiences of living with Stiff Person
Syndrome while juggling insulin-dependent
diabetes and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
with everyday life, beginning the end of
2008.
I have lived 22 years of my
adult life with SPS. Time has
not made living with SPS easier, just a
continual evolution of physical
adjustments and thinking strategies
in a long 20+ year revolution.
There have been and always will be
challenges. My SPS diagnosis was
a lifelong declaration of war.
It would be self-defeating to
constantly look back at my life with
the questioning regret of "if
only" and not live forward with
dreams and hope burning in my heart
with optimistic anticipation of
"what next?"
"In spite
of" the challenges and
limitations of SPS, I am enjoying this
special time of my life immensely.
Life is still
worth living.
Debbie
May today gift you
with one memory worth reliving, one
thing to bring a smile,
the chance to share love, and the
wisdom to recognize opportunity.
Copyright
© Debra A. Richardson
All Rights Reserved
Revised
January 2012
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