hi guys and welcome back to SubLyme77 your channel for Lyme disease awareness
education and inspiration my name is Regina Stoneham and I'm a Lyme warrior
being thankful while having Lyme disease is really hard
Lyme disease makes you feel so alone and makes you feel like you're going crazy
and it's really painful and you always have a new symptom every single day and
you know when you find out that you have Lyme disease you have to start treatment
and that treatment consumes every single day and it's really hard it's hard to be
thankful when you've been given this horrible disease why why should I be
thankful why should I be thankful when I've gotten this this disease that that
can kill me and it takes so much of my energy and I can be using that energy to
raise my children to spend more time with my husband to have a job or to be a
better mom and wife at home why should I be thankful
well I'll tell you why because if you stay in that mindset I mean it's okay to
feel that way initially it's totally okay but that's a process right you
can't stay in that mindset you can't stay in that self consuming oh my god I
have Lyme disease it's all I'm thinking about is Lyme
disease and how it's affecting other people and how it's affecting me and why
did I get it I mean you can't stay there if you stay there you're gonna become
bitter and you're gonna become an ugly person a sick ugly person and the people
around you aren't gonna art they're not gonna want to be around you because
you're taking them for granted you're taking their love and them taking care
of you for granted and you don't heal mentally and emotionally it's not just
about the Lyme disease and the spirochetes and everything getting
inside of your blood and getting inside you know it's not just about that when
you have Lyme disease you have to start to heal emotionally and mentally it's
something that these little spirochete all demons do is you know
they they don't just screw up your body they screw up your emotions too and so
we can choose two paths we can choose to be bitter and why did this happen to me
and I a very selfish a very selfish and bitter journey or you can choose the
journey of okay yeah this happened to be I felt I felt
that way but what can I do now and what you can do now is start being thankful
start being grateful for the little things if you used to be able to jog you
know an hour a day and now you're laying in bed that could make make you upset
that can make you you know turn bitter but then you know while you're laying in
bed you can start being grateful that you can actually get up and go to the
bathroom you can walk to the bathroom you know being grateful for the little
things you know having technology having the opportunity to watch YouTube videos
all day or Netflix little things and then being grateful for the people that
are in your lives even if those people kind of drive you nuts sometimes they're
they're there for you thank them you know and try to think of something
special to do for them use your art use your writing write them a poem use your
drawings draw something for them you know use the time that you're held up in
bed for something good for instance
I you know I've been sick for a really really long time
and I didn't know what it was and since I found out and I've started treatment
about like three or four months ago I was really happy that I found out what
the diagnosis was finally but then I was really sad because once I found out that
I had to go through treatment and it was going to debilitate me at certain points
I wasn't looking forward to that because I have a family to take care of I have
kids I have a husband I have a household to run and so my first verse my first
response was oh my god I mean I I'm gonna be sick I'm gonna be hurting I'm
gonna you know I'm not gonna be able to take care of my kids you know what are
we gonna do and I just you know I kind of went through that wimey phase and
then I decided while I was laying in bed I decided that I was gonna turn this
around and I was going to use this to help other people people like I know I'm
not alone I know I'm not alone I know it I do out there are like me and we are
not alone there's a bunch of us that feel the same way so what I decided to
do is I suc decided to start this YouTube channel and I know people are
wondering how is she doing a YouTube channel when she's so sick
well first of all I wear makeup second of all I record when I have the most
energy which is usually in the morning and then all the other stuff the gobbly
gook the editing and stuff like that I do in bed on my computer so I'm I'm
helping others I am being thankful for the opportunity to help you to inspire
you to make you feel like you're not alone and to connect
because I don't want to feel lonely in this journey I don't and I know you
don't want to feel lonely either so that's what I did to show my gratitude
and I decided you know because I'm in bed so much my might as well like edit
videos and and learn Final Cut Pro and learn the way YouTube works and to be an
inspiration while I'm going on this journey and guess what it's made me
really really happy and I'm still in a lot of pain but I know that I have the
skills and I have the drive to be able to do this to be able to communicate
what's going on and to educate and to make people aware of this and it makes
my heart feel so so good that I can help you so I just want to close this by
saying thank you so much for watching this and feel free to share this video
so that other people that have Lyme disease don't feel so alone because
loneliness is one of the biggest things that I think we have in this disease I
love you and please start thinking about ways that you can show your gratitude
and being thankful I know you have it in you you can do it go ahead and do it now
figure it out write it down start brainstorming you
can do it what are you good at if you liked what you saw please subscribe to
my channel and feel free to share it you
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