Re: wearing makeup to hide our illness/Judy in WI

[Guest guest]

Hi Judy - I applied privately regarding my exact city, but wanted to say

welcome. I'm sorry that you are having to go through this awful illness

while having to care for your mother as well. Bless you for having the

courage and strength to do that. I don't think I'd be able to do it. I

hope you do find comfort from being with a group of people online who truly

do understand what you deal with regarding this monster. I look forward to

reading more from you.

Jeanne in WI

>

> As I read all these posts, it seems I wrote them all. A comfort that all

> of you can relate to this disabilitating illness. Gosh, do we all have

> these terrible dark circles, the weight gain, people telling us we are

> lazy cause we don't look sick. I wish those people could see me get out

> of bed in the morning. Is it Lori? that wants to leave the group, I can

> understand it, reading some of the posts and bringing me even farther

> down. But still, the comfort of knowing a group of people dealing with

> all the same things is a comfort, just the understanding that we don't

> always get from the people around us. I also care for my 85 yr old mother

> with alzheimers, and it saddens me so much.......she was always the one

> person in this world that would always understand and show compassion,

> with her own illness she has little understanding of anything anymore. So

> I grieve her illness, my illness, and what hurts more than anything, I

> grieve the loss of my mother. She slips further away each day. I have no

> idea how I got to this subject, but I guess it needed to be expressed.

> Jeanne, Teri where are you in wisconsin? I'm about 30 mi. north of

> milwaukee.

>

> Judy (southeast wisconsin)