Thoughts for Monday
I am going to try and push through the obvious thoughts of the fact that it is currently 85 degrees and extremely muggy in my apartment and I am not going to turn on my electricity hog of an AC. I have had all sorts of thoughts in the past 2 months since I posted (bad me) and I am trying to figure out what direction I am going to head.
Right now the most prevalent think on my mind is another blog. Me being me, I get addicted to something and then inevitably something else comes along and then I get busy and forget about said addiction. These are usually CDs, webpages, and TV shows. I had for a long time been reading the blog of my friend's husband. Like I said, get busy or distracted and completely forgot about it (which is sad because it is really well written). Well I ran into my friend and her husband at a wedding. It reminded me how good his blog is and how I need to get back on track reading it. Fortunately, I have done this. He is truly an insightful, intelligent, and humorous guy and I love reading his blog. But that is not what I wanted to write about. No, seeing him at the wedding was a little difficult for me. Her husband has ALS aka Lou Gehrig's Disease. My grandma had ALS and passed away my senior year of college. Now, I knew that my grandma wouldn't live forever but this disease is a cruel, cruel disease. You see, ALS is a terrorist disease. It takes a perfectly functional brain and holds it hostage as it slowly shuts down the body. To explain it in clearer terms... When you are diagnosed with ALS your brain does not lose function, but your body does. Slowly your legs lose their ability to work, then it works its way north. You lose function of your hands and arms, your ability to speak, your ability to swallow and eventually your ability to breathe. Again, this whole time the brain functions just like nothing has happened.
The reason it was slightly hard to see him was first I know that there are some undeniable facts. 1) This disease is going to take his life at some point (unless science decides to find a cure and quit trying to solve old men's inability to get an erection. Also side note, this would be a good reason to support stem cell research, tell your politicians unless of course you enjoy letting productive members of society die). 2) If 1 happens, then his wife will have to go through the mourning of having the love of your life go. And I am a firm believer that if you are married for a year or 60 years, it is never easy to lose your spouse. 3) It brought back the memories of my grandma passing. And how painful it was to watch as bit by bit she died. Nobody deserves to have that happen to their body and no family member deserves to have to watch it happen to a family member.
But their was something uplifting about seeing my friend and her husband as well. Seeing the love they had for each other was so uplifting. I can only hope that some day I find a woman that loves me as much as she loves him and vice versa. Her husband and I had a good conversation about writing and about the other woman in his life (the computer program that allows him to write his blog which apparently has a female voice and has been named Erica). Upon returning home, I have had the enjoyment of catching up on his blog and exchanging a few emails concerning our favorite baseball team (true baseball fans cheer for the Cubs, to hell with the Yankees). Through seeing him and talking with him, my passion for promoting ALS research has been reignited and I hope that you too will help fight this awful disease.
Please go here for more information on the disease and how to help go here.
I have also been inspired to be more diligent about keeping this up to date (at least one post per week).
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Right now the most prevalent think on my mind is another blog. Me being me, I get addicted to something and then inevitably something else comes along and then I get busy and forget about said addiction. These are usually CDs, webpages, and TV shows. I had for a long time been reading the blog of my friend's husband. Like I said, get busy or distracted and completely forgot about it (which is sad because it is really well written). Well I ran into my friend and her husband at a wedding. It reminded me how good his blog is and how I need to get back on track reading it. Fortunately, I have done this. He is truly an insightful, intelligent, and humorous guy and I love reading his blog. But that is not what I wanted to write about. No, seeing him at the wedding was a little difficult for me. Her husband has ALS aka Lou Gehrig's Disease. My grandma had ALS and passed away my senior year of college. Now, I knew that my grandma wouldn't live forever but this disease is a cruel, cruel disease. You see, ALS is a terrorist disease. It takes a perfectly functional brain and holds it hostage as it slowly shuts down the body. To explain it in clearer terms... When you are diagnosed with ALS your brain does not lose function, but your body does. Slowly your legs lose their ability to work, then it works its way north. You lose function of your hands and arms, your ability to speak, your ability to swallow and eventually your ability to breathe. Again, this whole time the brain functions just like nothing has happened.
The reason it was slightly hard to see him was first I know that there are some undeniable facts. 1) This disease is going to take his life at some point (unless science decides to find a cure and quit trying to solve old men's inability to get an erection. Also side note, this would be a good reason to support stem cell research, tell your politicians unless of course you enjoy letting productive members of society die). 2) If 1 happens, then his wife will have to go through the mourning of having the love of your life go. And I am a firm believer that if you are married for a year or 60 years, it is never easy to lose your spouse. 3) It brought back the memories of my grandma passing. And how painful it was to watch as bit by bit she died. Nobody deserves to have that happen to their body and no family member deserves to have to watch it happen to a family member.
But their was something uplifting about seeing my friend and her husband as well. Seeing the love they had for each other was so uplifting. I can only hope that some day I find a woman that loves me as much as she loves him and vice versa. Her husband and I had a good conversation about writing and about the other woman in his life (the computer program that allows him to write his blog which apparently has a female voice and has been named Erica). Upon returning home, I have had the enjoyment of catching up on his blog and exchanging a few emails concerning our favorite baseball team (true baseball fans cheer for the Cubs, to hell with the Yankees). Through seeing him and talking with him, my passion for promoting ALS research has been reignited and I hope that you too will help fight this awful disease.
Please go here for more information on the disease and how to help go here.
I have also been inspired to be more diligent about keeping this up to date (at least one post per week).
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