Of course, my friend, I have more new, true friends here at NT, than I could have ever imagined when I came stumbling in here several weeks ago.

When you said, "I just wanted to say hang on...but I'm not always sure what it is we are hanging onto! I guess just hang on to knowing that the sun will rise again tomorrow..." that sounds like exact words that my very best, and oldest, friend wouldv'e said had I called and woke her up at this hour.

HANGING ON is GOOD! I don't even have to know what I'm hanging onto. I can hang on to the HOPE of a sunrise and a ray of HOPE for sunshine. I can do that. Thank you... SO much!!!

Oh, shucks!!!... I skipped right past the marshmallows straight to the jar of marchmallow Creme!!!!!

Marshmellow creme...

Oh the fun we could have with that.

*No smiley available for what I'm thinking*

Thanks for the laugh! I hope, above all, the sense of humor is the last thing to go, if there ever must be a last thing to go!

You are too funny! How can I be depressed now ?!?!?!?!

I see Moose already came to your rescue. I wuz gonna offer my Dad -- he's 94 and single.

Well, you wanted an OLD friend, right? And he's crazy about choccy milk!!!

Darn the luck!!!! Could be too many cooks in the kitchen... I am assuming that is the room we are talking about?!?!

Now, how can a girl still be sad after this??????

This place is TOO MUCH!!!

Ew, Ew . . . . . . I'm old!

I always find I recover slower from just about anything now, especially surgery. I think that we don't have a lot of excess energy at the best of times, then add on some drama, and down we go.

It's a bit of a rollercoaster, friend, but what goes down, must come up.

Cherie

Geez, I slept through the whole party. Any better today, F2U? It's a new day with a wide-open amusement park and no lines. Choose your ride and hop on! They all end eventually.

Yes, it is a much brighter today.... thanks to God and a lot of newish, oldish, friends!

Oh my, decisions, decisions.... a ride of my choice. Think I would today, take the old standby, a little rowboat ride on the pond to take a closer look at those geese! NOW THAT REALLY SOUNDS OLD!!! But, wouldn't that be just loverly??? Unfortunately, I have no rowboat. But one could wish.... I'll leave the splashing water rides for B2U, since she jumped into my hot cocoa!!!

Thanks so much! You are (all) the best!

Well, I might not be an "old friend", but I am old and I would love to be your friend!

And I just wanted to tell you that everything is going to be okay!

Yes MS sucks. Yes your life is different than it used to be...

But your life is going to be different than it used to be even if you DIDN'T have MS.

Life is constantly changing...and some of the changes are harder to deal with than others.

But given enough time, you'll adjust. How could you not, with all these new friends you have!

I like your rollercoaster version... I think I've had it backward... forgetting the part that it does have to go back up! I'll hang on to this thought!

I think you have a point about the whole 'less excess energy' thing. Seriously, it really does seem to make the pendelum swing a whole lot lower on it's way down, which makes the way back up seem even longer.

I seem to be having an "Ah-ha! moment" more often these days. So either I'm learning a lot here lately, or just forgetting day by day, and learning things all over again..... Either way, I guess it kinda makes life surprising... don'cha just luv surprises?!?!

Hey Cheri, BTW, you had helped me out more than you probably are aware. I posted some replies to you on the "Crumbling" thread. But that thread is pretty old, so you may not have gotten them. I'm going to just half-time next school year. It is such a sense of relief, as hard as it was. But, for me, it was the time of year to make that decision with contracts coming out. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks!