I've just been reading the support everyone has given to Bob in his venting and mine about losing my job and I think it is so incredible that everyone here who is suffering their own pain and woes can find it within themselves to reach out and help another who is suffering.

I understand that we have a physical disease, but along with that physical disease comes so much mental pain and emotional strife. Most of us are also at an age where many people have come to depend on us and we are caregivers for others, so it is difficult for us to learn to accept care for our diseases. It is easier to come here and accept care and nurturing from others who are suffering the same disease than it is to accept nurturing from those we are supposed to be caring for in our own lives.

However, the other day, when I lost my job, and my daughter who has been clean from drugs for 10 months saw me crying said to me "Mom, God doesn't give us more than we can handle" I said back to her, "I don't like that saying, because he gave my mom more than she could handle", and in her simple 22 years of wisdom on this earth, she said back to me, "Grama gave herself more than she could handle". Then she hugged me and walked out the door! (For those who don't know, Grama committed suicide a few years ago).

Wisdom and comfort comes from many places and in many forms. And that wisdom that came from my daughter who has faced her own very scary demons over the last three years was very strong indeed.

I want to thank you all for being here and being the support team that I come to. As a person who is a "caregiver" I don't have a support team around me that I can go to, so you guys are it. I think that there are many of us here who feel the same way.

Just had to share that.
Terri