Re: Happy Thanksgiving to All!

[Guest guest]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Penguin

[Guest guest]

Hey Pen!

Does your 'handle' have anything to do with RU86??

I noticed the name as penru68?

Jeanetta

>

> Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

>

> Penguin

[Guest guest]

and All,

Thanks to you all for being in my circle of friends this year too! I am

greatful for the friendship and support here, not to mention the fun

and laughs at the retreat last April.

Of course Thanksgiving is not a celebrated holiday here in Denmark so

after school lets out we will take the train to the " big city "

(Copenhagen) and have a Thanksgiving feast at the Marriott with family

that lives nearby. We sit down late...which will probably coincide with

most of you having that mid afternoon big meal. I will lift my glass of

snaps to you all.

Skoal!

Cam

[Guest guest]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and all other members as well! I am very thankful that I had surgery in May. I still have not had any pain meds since September 1st! I feel so blessed! I am so glad I didn't listen to Dr. Reeg who said there was no need to rush into surgery and I could wait for another 6+ years. I am so glad for this group in which I was pointed to Dr. Hey. I am so thankful for his skill in working a miracle in my life!

Peggy

[ ] Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Dear Group,

I just wanted to sit down and thank all of you for this last year of friendship and sharing! So as many of you set out to see family, either driving or flying, or work at home preparing your home and a big meal, know that I'm thinking about all of you. This past year has been full of members having surgery, and hopefully many of you are finding this holiday with your new revised body easier to manage, and with less pain. For those of you that haven't made it to surgery, remember to pace yourself, not try to do it all yourself( good advice for all of us really).

As I'm about to run up to my five year since revision anniversary in december, my biggest thanks beyond my family and friends goes to this surgery and Dr. Kumar for giving me this opportunity to live a really full life. What I got back is never lost on me. So know those of you still struggling with pain and disability, know I remember those days, how tough it was to get through a "normal" day, let alone a huge holiday full of cooking, and cleaning. So remember you don't have to do it all, spread it out among all your family members. I know for myself I'm making a more basic meal, so I may enjoy my family, not worrying about making five kinds of pies, and every side dish known to man. Better to do less, and be comfortable, and happy, than to be Wonderwoman and be miserable and sore.

So I wish all of you wonderful warm times with your families and friends, and know I count all of you among my blessings this year!

Colorado Springs

[Guest guest]

Thank you all for the support and especially Peggy and for

steering me Dr. Hey's way. I had my 6 week check-up today and the

back is in great shape. My problem is still the knee. I can have

the knee replacement in January if needed. In the meantime I am

going to my rheumatoligist next Tuesday for possibly a cortisone

injection to help me along until then. I've had the Hyalgan

injections but can't repeat them yet. I am hoping that this is just

a flare-up of inflammation and that I can return to work for a while

before another surgery. The further out I am from my spinal surgery

the better. Anyway, I am so thankful every hour of every day that I

can stand and walk with a straight posture. I'm also thankful for

Dr. Hey and his team for doing such a fantastic job. Happy

Thanksgiving!

-- In , " Peggy Greene "

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> Happy Thanksgiving to you and all other members as well! I am

very thankful that I had surgery in May. I still have not had any

pain meds since September 1st! I feel so blessed! I am so glad I

didn't listen to Dr. Reeg who said there was no need to rush into

surgery and I could wait for another 6+ years. I am so glad for

this group in which I was pointed to Dr. Hey. I am so thankful for

his skill in working a miracle in my life!

>

> Peggy

>

> [ ] Happy Thanksgiving to all!

>

>

>

> Dear Group,

>

> I just wanted to sit down and thank all of you for this last

year of friendship and sharing! So as many of you set out to see

family, either driving or flying, or work at home preparing your

home and a big meal, know that I'm thinking about all of you. This

past year has been full of members having surgery, and hopefully

many of you are finding this holiday with your new revised body

easier to manage, and with less pain. For those of you that haven't

made it to surgery, remember to pace yourself, not try to do it all

yourself( good advice for all of us really).

>

> As I'm about to run up to my five year since revision

anniversary in december, my biggest thanks beyond my family and

friends goes to this surgery and Dr. Kumar for giving me this

opportunity to live a really full life. What I got back is never

lost on me. So know those of you still struggling with pain and

disability, know I remember those days, how tough it was to get

through a " normal " day, let alone a huge holiday full of cooking,

and cleaning. So remember you don't have to do it all, spread it out

among all your family members. I know for myself I'm making a more

basic meal, so I may enjoy my family, not worrying about making five

kinds of pies, and every side dish known to man. Better to do less,

and be comfortable, and happy, than to be Wonderwoman and be

miserable and sore.

>

> So I wish all of you wonderful warm times with your families and

friends, and know I count all of you among my blessings this year!

>

>

> Colorado Springs

>

[Guest guest]

I hope everyone is able to be with family and friends this thanksgiving.

That you are able to get there safely.

Jeanne

>

> Speaking of giving thanks, having hope, and belief in the power of

> one (parent)... no matter where you live in the world, let the

> following story tell all of the above:

>

> She Helped Give Us Thanksgiving

>

> Why do we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the fourth

> Thursday of November? Abraham Lincoln declared it a holiday in his

> famous Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863. But who put Lincoln up to

> it?

>

> The answer is pha Hale, arguably the most successful

> midlife woman in American history.

>

> In addition to moving President Lincoln to action, Hale was

> the first to urge equal education for American girls. She was the

> first to start day nurseries for working women, the first to suggest

> public playgrounds, and the first editor of the first woman's

> magazine in America.

>

> Hale authored two dozen books and hundreds of poems, including the

> best known nursery rhyme in the English language: " Had a Little

> Lamb. "

>

> And perhaps the most remarkable part is, she did it all after she

> turned 40.

>

> Widowed and penniless at 34, with five small children to raise, Hale

> supported herself with sewing and poetry. Then, at 39, her first

> novel, Northwood, was a huge success.

>

> A year later a British publisher asked her to serve as the first

> editor of The Ladies Magazine and the rest, as they say, is history.

> Nine years later she moved to Godsey's Lady's Book in Philadelphia.

> Here her editorial skills helped the publication become the largest

> in America with a subscription list of 150,000 by the 1850s.

>

> Hale continued to write and edit until she was 89. She died at

> a robust 91.

>

> " The Lady Editor, " as Hale was affectionately called, advocated a

> national celebration of Thanksgiving as early as 1827. " We have too

> few holidays, " she wrote in Northwood. " Thanksgiving like the Fourth

> of July should be considered a national festival and observed by all

> our people. "

>

> To Hale Thanksgiving would be a therapeutic holiday. " There is

> a deep moral influence in these periodical seasons of rejoicing, in

> which whole communities participate. They bring out . . . the best

> sympathies in our natures. "

>

> Hale saw this spiritual dimension of Thanksgiving as a means for

> preventing the insanity of civil war in America. This is why, as

> hostilities heated up between North and South, she bombarded both

> national and state officials with requests for the national holiday.

>

> By 1863 when Lincoln issued his now famous Thanksgiving

> Proclamation, Hale had penned literally thousands of these

> letters in her own hand. " If every state would join in Union

> Thanksgiving on the 24th of this month, would it not be a renewed

> pledge of love and loyalty to the Constitution of the United

> States? " Hale wrote in a 1859 editorial.

>

> Of course, Hale was unable to avert those saddest years of

> American history, but in 1863, as civil war ravished the land,

> Abraham Lincoln did issue the proclamation Hale had spent nearly 40

> years and thousands of letters to procure.

>

> Speaking of America's blessings, even in its darkest hour, Lincoln

> wrote, " No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand

> worked out these things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most

> High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath

> nevertheless remembered us in mercy. "

>

> And so Americans celebrate Thanksgiving together on the fourth

> Thursday of November each year. And perhaps that celebration has

> helped as much as anything to keep us from the insanity of fighting

> against ourselves again..

>

> If so, we have Lincoln's Most High God to thank for it, as well as a

> spunky midlifer named pha Hale.

>

> http://www.bestyears.com/sarah_hale.html

>

> At a time where each year more and more in the US the stores, the

> media, and the people have forgotten Hale, and seemed to have

> forgotten not just the reason for Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving

> itself ...I Hale remember and give thanks to you and all those

> like you!

>

> " had a little lamb

> Its fleece was white as snow,

> And everywhere that went

> The lamb was sure to go.

>

> It followed her to school one day,

> That was against the rule;

> It made the children laugh and play

> To see a lamb at school. "

> ~ pha Hale

>

> =====

>

[Guest guest]

It is so odd to think that even though we all came together on the internet I

look at this group as part of my family. Happy Thanksgiving and a HUGE thank

you to all here who have without knowing mean so much to me. I came here not

knowing even with a speech therapist was no less apraxia and I continue to learn

every day. Just like my real life family we sometimes don't agree but under it

all there is caring and best of all this is a place where I don't feel alone.

May all of us in the US have a wonderful Tthanksgiving, and I'm giving a special

thank you to all from this group! Kate

> >

> > Speaking of giving thanks, having hope, and belief in the power of

> > one (parent)... no matter where you live in the world, let the

> > following story tell all of the above:

> >

> > She Helped Give Us Thanksgiving

> >

> > Why do we Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day on the fourth

> > Thursday of November? Abraham Lincoln declared it a holiday in his

> > famous Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863. But who put Lincoln up to

> > it?

> >

> > The answer is pha Hale, arguably the most successful

> > midlife woman in American history.

> >

> > In addition to moving President Lincoln to action, Hale was

> > the first to urge equal education for American girls. She was the

> > first to start day nurseries for working women, the first to suggest

> > public playgrounds, and the first editor of the first woman's

> > magazine in America.

> >

> > Hale authored two dozen books and hundreds of poems, including the

> > best known nursery rhyme in the English language: " Had a Little

> > Lamb. "

> >

> > And perhaps the most remarkable part is, she did it all after she

> > turned 40.

> >

> > Widowed and penniless at 34, with five small children to raise, Hale

> > supported herself with sewing and poetry. Then, at 39, her first

> > novel, Northwood, was a huge success.

> >

> > A year later a British publisher asked her to serve as the first

> > editor of The Ladies Magazine and the rest, as they say, is history.

> > Nine years later she moved to Godsey's Lady's Book in Philadelphia.

> > Here her editorial skills helped the publication become the largest

> > in America with a subscription list of 150,000 by the 1850s.

> >

> > Hale continued to write and edit until she was 89. She died at

> > a robust 91.

> >

> > " The Lady Editor, " as Hale was affectionately called, advocated a

> > national celebration of Thanksgiving as early as 1827. " We have too

> > few holidays, " she wrote in Northwood. " Thanksgiving like the Fourth

> > of July should be considered a national festival and observed by all

> > our people. "

> >

> > To Hale Thanksgiving would be a therapeutic holiday. " There is

> > a deep moral influence in these periodical seasons of rejoicing, in

> > which whole communities participate. They bring out . . . the best

> > sympathies in our natures. "

> >

> > Hale saw this spiritual dimension of Thanksgiving as a means for

> > preventing the insanity of civil war in America. This is why, as

> > hostilities heated up between North and South, she bombarded both

> > national and state officials with requests for the national holiday.

> >

> > By 1863 when Lincoln issued his now famous Thanksgiving

> > Proclamation, Hale had penned literally thousands of these

> > letters in her own hand. " If every state would join in Union

> > Thanksgiving on the 24th of this month, would it not be a renewed

> > pledge of love and loyalty to the Constitution of the United

> > States? " Hale wrote in a 1859 editorial.

> >

> > Of course, Hale was unable to avert those saddest years of

> > American history, but in 1863, as civil war ravished the land,

> > Abraham Lincoln did issue the proclamation Hale had spent nearly 40

> > years and thousands of letters to procure.

> >

> > Speaking of America's blessings, even in its darkest hour, Lincoln

> > wrote, " No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand

> > worked out these things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most

> > High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath

> > nevertheless remembered us in mercy. "

> >

> > And so Americans celebrate Thanksgiving together on the fourth

> > Thursday of November each year. And perhaps that celebration has

> > helped as much as anything to keep us from the insanity of fighting

> > against ourselves again..

> >

> > If so, we have Lincoln's Most High God to thank for it, as well as a

> > spunky midlifer named pha Hale.

> >

> > http://www.bestyears.com/sarah_hale.html

> >

> > At a time where each year more and more in the US the stores, the

> > media, and the people have forgotten Hale, and seemed to have

> > forgotten not just the reason for Thanksgiving, but Thanksgiving

> > itself ...I Hale remember and give thanks to you and all those

> > like you!

> >

> > " had a little lamb

> > Its fleece was white as snow,

> > And everywhere that went

> > The lamb was sure to go.

> >

> > It followed her to school one day,

> > That was against the rule;

> > It made the children laugh and play

> > To see a lamb at school. "

> > ~ pha Hale

> >

> > =====

> >