Re: [Lyme-aid] Pepi's gripping, RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!! LOL

March 14, 2000

pepi...

i think we have all gone thru the questioning that u are going thru

now..... " why me " especially since the majority of lyme pts. led full active

lifes prior to coming down with this disease.....i know that my world was

turned upside down in many ways....

i had always been active in motorsports( car racing ) since i was very young

.......i am so weak now i have problems lifting a wrench never mind turning

it....i had to give up qactively helping at the track ....that hurt ......now

i run the teams website.....

i worked long hours many days for years.....regular job and my own business

.....i loved it....well goodbye to that to since 96.......in its place....i

know volunteer at my kids school a few days a month helping to serve lunch or

chaperone funtions....i get to see my kids presentations during the day...and

summers i know spend at our place in the poconos mtns....where my kids are

busy from morning to nite with swim team and other goings on....the only

reason i can risk being alone with them all summer is a wonderfull

couple..... their adopted nanny and pop who assume them when i don't feel up

to it.....i am truly lucky to have people like them....

i was reading an article in the local paper today.....it had one of my

favorite quotes......life is 10% what happens to u and 90% how u handle

it.....u are right to gripe.....what happened to us sucks for lack of a

better word.....but it happened now we have to make the best of

it......without lyme i would have never met the people i this group .....who

in my opinion are some of the most caring " true " people i have ever

met.....like has been said here.....gettysburg will be a lyme love in.....

latly i have been working my butt of on a charity i represent....Racing 4

kids....we raise money for kids thru auto racing i am running a chinese

auction for summer camp scho;larships been e mailing and faxing race teams

like crazy for donations and have gotten some great stuff from some big

racing names....

its something i can do from home....alll hours....day or middle of the

nite(insomnia stinks) so......like most i have learned to live with it....and

some good things have come from uit.....but yes i still miss " my old life "

Reid

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