tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post3755858231954809826..comments2024-02-20T00:10:20.214-06:00Comments on KatyDid Cancer: Day 865: A Worthy DiseaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post-63873340243953971452012-11-05T21:55:07.079-06:002012-11-05T21:55:07.079-06:00My sister has had epilepsy since high school. I of...My sister has had epilepsy since high school. I often "forget" about it until I am at an event that has strobe lights without warning and think "You ASSholes! Do you not know how simple it is to notate this on the tickets before someone purchases them?!?" I don't know how she deals with the fear of unintentionally harming herself or someone else if her medication were to not work one day. If she were to have the flu and vomit her medication, resulting in seizures...<br /><br />I did know that it was Epilepsy Awareness Month. But what do we do for these months? Say that we're aware? I'm aware. Now fix it. FIND A CURE for Epilepsy and cancer and diabetes and AIDS. I am sick of the sicknesses. I am done with the bureaucracy that is involved in the medical/insurance/pharmaceutical fields. tracey.becker1@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606831315390042198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post-22803100012172925232012-11-05T19:26:28.533-06:002012-11-05T19:26:28.533-06:00Hon, let me make it clear that my being brave thro...Hon, let me make it clear that my being brave through any of it was never the case. As a mom, it's what you do - right? Hell, if I needed to be brave, I am not sure I could have watched that tiny little girl come out of that huge MRI machine, Sarah wrapped in her arms, waiting to hear if the seizures were the result of a brain tumor or....or what they were...idiopathic and never to be explained. I did what had to be done - what needed to be done. <br /><br />And remember the infamous ironing burn? Sometimes even moms fall down on the job...but I don't know that bravery on my part had a darn thing to do with anything.<br /><br />The answer truly is "that our best thing is our ability to put ourselves aside, and see other people for what they are, right now while they're standing next to us..each person as the one." <br /><br />Of course as my precious daughter, you are more than "the one." And that "one" story, whether intertwined with mine or not, has been and will continue to be so much more than an accident of history...it's been and continues to be inspiring, captivating, fascinating...and, well, damned well written.<br /><br />Love,<br />MomMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05327701924465360560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7125354934408472049.post-47883570996352846232012-11-05T12:37:28.092-06:002012-11-05T12:37:28.092-06:00Right on!
As someone who has no prexisting condi...Right on! <br /><br />As someone who has no prexisting conditions and have always been healthy, I never have to wonder how we came together. It's your consciousness and the way I delight in how you approach life, with humor and brains. It's how you can usually not take things too seriously - but, oh baby, when conviction is called for you've got it in spades! <br /><br />I'll argue until I'm blue in the face that your HAIR is NOT your best thing - it might be the thing you are best known for, but WHO you are is truly your best thing. gabesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12668071288755419304noreply@blogger.com