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  • April 30, 2008

    Did anybody see special on TLC last night?

    Last night they had a special on Carol Carr.  Lady who nursed her husband and two sons battling HD.  Only she made a promise to her children that when they got so bad she would assist in their suicide.  She ended up shooting them and claims she did it out of love.  The State of Georgia actually didn't even convict her of murder because the prosecuting attorney felt for her so much.  I don't know if anyone saw the special.  I think it was called Real Life Mysteries.  It is nice to know they are showing programs about people who have HD and the family and caretakes that also have to battle with this disease. 

  • April 22, 2008

    As we grow up.....................

    I ran past this cute quote and gosh how it is so true.  Enjoy...............

    As we grow up,

    we learn that even the one person that wasn't suppose to ever let you down....

    probably will.

    You will have your heart broken

    probably more than once

    and its harder every time

    You'll break hearts too,

    so remember how it felt when yours was broken.

    You'll fight with your best friend.

    You'll blame a new love for things an old one did.

    You'll cry because time is passing too fast

    and you'll eventually lose someone you love.

    So take too many pictures,

    laugh too much,

    and love like you have never been hurt

    because ev ery sixty second you spend upset

    is a minute of happiness you'll never get back"

  • April 08, 2008

    I think there are just some really bad people...........

    It seems anymore that so many people can take pleasure from one persons pain, which makes me so angry and then just end up saddened by the whole thing.  I don't just mean in situations regarding the Huntington's Disease, but that is a major part of my anger.  Now, my Aunt had Huntington's Disease and now that I think about it I should have visited more often, but it always seemed like my brother had everything taken care of.  He really is an inspiration.  So very caring.  Anyway, I lived two hours away, but I do still miss her.  I often think about when I was younger and we went to visit every other weekend (my parents died when I was young and my grandmother had grandparenting rights) and she would take me and my cousin Allison all over, out to eat, shopping, movies, etc.  And then she got diagnosed with HD.  And to my cousins that was an embarassment.  I don't know how the guilt didn't scorch right through them when they were carrying her casket. 

    I was raised to not make fun of others.  Feelings can be hurt so easily and it can change that persons life.  To each their own and everyone has a story behind everything.  We are all special in our own way.  So, why the need to make fun of.  Why the need to point and why the need to hurt other peoples feelings.  I just don't understand what it does for that person.  I think it is highly rude and .........eeerrrrrr

  • March 20, 2008

    A few inspirational quotes that I found.........

    COURAGE

    Courage is the disvoery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

    Anyone can give up, its the easiest thing in the world, But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

    INSPIRATIONAL

    Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

    Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can.

    Yesterday is History.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That is why we call it the present.

    You don't get to choose how you're going to die.  Or when.  You can only decide how you're going to live.  Now.

    When one door of hapiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door we do not see th eone that has opened for us.