What Are You Going To Do When You Are Well?

As the song goes, "I'm gonna swing from the chandelier!!"

I thought about this today and I realized I just want to do the regular stuff I used to do:
- Drive to the nearby city with my mother in law and spend the day shopping
- Go to the neighbourhood pub for chicken wings and then a movie with my girlfriend.
- Go to Maroon 5 in March
- Go back to work and start getting out of debt.
- Go to the Xmas lites at Buchart Gardens in Victoria and skate on the ice with my hubby, son and girlfriend.

What do you want to do?

Oooh man. I just want to get back to recording music. My studio and mobile recording gear just glare at me. Between the tinnitus that i pray will go away, the sound sensitivity, and the constant headaches i cant even listen to the radio. I also cant wait to coach my kiddos soccer team again. Not being involved in this when i have coached her since u6 has heen the hardest thing to give up. One more year until she plays jv and i no longer have the chance. Fingers crossed.

I am absolutely going to hike the Pacific crest trail from the Mexico border to Canadian border 2685 miles. I got Lyme disease while completing a 2587 mile hike of the pinhoti and Appalachian trail and I refuse to let this disease take away my ultimate passion in life.

With the help of this forum I had the inspiration to go back to work and it is paying off huge

I deliver pizza and I love it. I think it is benefiting my treatment.

I also want to be an advocate for Lyme and show people the real face of this disease.

I also want to be able to eat whatever I want without wondering if my candida will rip my stomach in half.

I totally agree mariels that I think everyone wants to pay the finances instead of paying for this outrageously expensive labs and prescriptions.

We will all get to the health we deserve soon enough. GOD has a plan for all of us and although Lyme is such a hard thing to deal with we all CAN and WILL beat this thing. And when we do we will do all of these things we listed here.

I want to be able to go out to dinner with my husband without having to take 1/2 a valium.

I want to go to a party and feel relaxed.

I remember when I got a haircut last month that was a big step for me because I had been too anxious for months to do it.

I want a mani/pedi.

All my things I want are just to be able to do normal social things without having anxiety. Anxiety is my worst enemy with lyme.

Also I want to eat pizza.

Goats. I want to have my dairy goats back - but first hubby wants to do a little traveling here in the US. But I want to have my goats back! LOL!

And work in the garden all day long again, without having to sacrifice keeping my house or doing laundry or any of the other things that I've had to juggle in order to get them all done!

I want to go to college and get a job. I want to become a physical therapist. Physical therapy and pta's have changed my life and given me a reason to fight, I want to be that person for someone else. An inspiration. I also want to eventually get married and have kids. I come from a big Catholic family so a family is something I have always dreamed of. But right now, to be completely honest, I really just want to go to college and get a job. I want to prove everyone who has ever doubted me that they are wrong!

Good thread Girlie!

- I am desperate for my old personality to return and to not feel like a crazy person.
- I long for relationships. I will have to work hard at rebuilding them, it seems.
- I really miss my physicality—running, exploring and physical activity and being outside without being paranoid.
- I hope it's not too late to start a family after all this is said and done… likely will have to pursue alternative means.
- I can't wait to get back to my career and see where it takes me next—I'm also looking forward to good changes.

…and I cannot wait to be well so that I can do something—not sure what just yet—but do something to change this situation for all of us and the MANY more lymees I'm afraid are yet to join us. Unfortunately, I will have a lot of time over the next year to figure out how to impact change so I will use that time wisely.

-p

Utahgal said...
When I kick lyme's ***..........

I'm going to DISNEY WORLD!!!! Lol

Hahaha, I love it. Great thread idea Girlie!

I would like to:

• Go camping and go on some long walks
  
• Travel without having to worry about feeling awful (Peru and Iceland are two places I would love to go to)
  
• See friends and family without having to flake out on events because I feel awful
  
• Be able to read books, think thoughts, and have conversations while feeling like I'm myself and my brain is functioning normally.
  

I plan on doing EVERYTHING I can.

I promised my kids we would hike Mt. Washington in NH.

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I like this thread :)

I write and illustrate kids books about guinea pigs. I have three more that I planned before I got ill. I AM GOING TO FINISH THEM!!!

I am also going to return to growing my own veggies - I miss not having the energy to do it and I miss eating my own stuff.

I am going to go back to talking so much that my OH tells me to shut up, he, he.