ladykeltik
Full Member
Well as I sit here at 5.30 am with insomnia (go figure), and mad racing thoughts running through my head, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all. (If this post babbles, its from the lack of sleep, I swear.. not the glass of champagne I had to drink!!!)
I dont know if you realise, I lurk in these forums every day, posting here and there, reading and re-reading people's stories, posts, struggles, and journeys, and relating to them all. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their pm's of congrats, and for the support I have been given over the course of my journey.
To start... Mike, I dont know if you realise this, but you where the first person to reply to a post I wrote on Discovery Health Forums, on the day I was going to see my CDC for the first time. I posted that I was absolutely terrified, and I didnt know if I could do this. In your brilliant reply you told me that I could do this, and this was the first step to an amazing journey, oh how right you were Obi Wan. It was with your encouragement, and the encouragement of the others that replied to that post, that I did get in my car, and attend my first appointment. Who knew where it would lead!!!
I read and re-read all your amazing stories on the DH forums, over and over again. On the days I was struggling; in the beginning; I kept re-reading those stories and blogs, and it gave me the inspiration to continue.
Now my inspiration is reading all the new people who post, saying and thinking the exact same thing I was nearly a year ago. I dont think you all realise it, as you look to those of us who have done this and found success, that you are an inspiration to us. I know that more than likely each one of us who has found success, reads your posts, and remembers feeling exactly the same way as you currently do - hopeless, desperate, depressed, lethargic, terrified, confused, dazed, and downtrodden - and we remember how hard that first step was. It is because of you guys, taking those first steps, that you are an inspiration to us, and keep us going on maintaining our journey's. And I thank you guys for that.
To all the regular posters, who keep me entertained with your dating diaries (on a side note, I got a phone call today, from some unknown guy, asking for a date... first phonecall for a date in years ), your struggles, your maintenance diaries (Demon and Ann you have been an inspiration through my stablisation and maintenance journey), your advice to others, your unfailing support to everyone. I thank you all for that, as you probably dont realise it, but you have all gotten me through some dark times, some very recently.
In my crazy insomnia that I currently have, I listened to a song, that I had kind of forgotten about, but one that got me through my dark times in the past year, personally and in my diet. And it reminded me how thankful I was to all of you, so I thought I would post this message. Its a song that we can all relate to, and you if love Coldplay, you will know it - 'A Message' - listen to it, and let me know if it speaks to you as it speaks to me.
So again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all.
Leighann
I dont know if you realise, I lurk in these forums every day, posting here and there, reading and re-reading people's stories, posts, struggles, and journeys, and relating to them all. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their pm's of congrats, and for the support I have been given over the course of my journey.
To start... Mike, I dont know if you realise this, but you where the first person to reply to a post I wrote on Discovery Health Forums, on the day I was going to see my CDC for the first time. I posted that I was absolutely terrified, and I didnt know if I could do this. In your brilliant reply you told me that I could do this, and this was the first step to an amazing journey, oh how right you were Obi Wan. It was with your encouragement, and the encouragement of the others that replied to that post, that I did get in my car, and attend my first appointment. Who knew where it would lead!!!
I read and re-read all your amazing stories on the DH forums, over and over again. On the days I was struggling; in the beginning; I kept re-reading those stories and blogs, and it gave me the inspiration to continue.
Now my inspiration is reading all the new people who post, saying and thinking the exact same thing I was nearly a year ago. I dont think you all realise it, as you look to those of us who have done this and found success, that you are an inspiration to us. I know that more than likely each one of us who has found success, reads your posts, and remembers feeling exactly the same way as you currently do - hopeless, desperate, depressed, lethargic, terrified, confused, dazed, and downtrodden - and we remember how hard that first step was. It is because of you guys, taking those first steps, that you are an inspiration to us, and keep us going on maintaining our journey's. And I thank you guys for that.
To all the regular posters, who keep me entertained with your dating diaries (on a side note, I got a phone call today, from some unknown guy, asking for a date... first phonecall for a date in years ), your struggles, your maintenance diaries (Demon and Ann you have been an inspiration through my stablisation and maintenance journey), your advice to others, your unfailing support to everyone. I thank you all for that, as you probably dont realise it, but you have all gotten me through some dark times, some very recently.
In my crazy insomnia that I currently have, I listened to a song, that I had kind of forgotten about, but one that got me through my dark times in the past year, personally and in my diet. And it reminded me how thankful I was to all of you, so I thought I would post this message. Its a song that we can all relate to, and you if love Coldplay, you will know it - 'A Message' - listen to it, and let me know if it speaks to you as it speaks to me.
So again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all.
Leighann