Learning To Live

I found this video today. I usually watch Momversation videos because I am with children a lot, I enjoy the panelists, and it's just a really well-done site. This video hit home. I feel I can never do enough for depression and mental illness. Mental illness is horrible. I've said this before, but I have very little trouble living my life with my physical illnesses - my cystic fibrosis and my diabetes (not to mention the fibromyalgia, endometriosis, chronic migraines and something I'm sure I'm forgetting). I really don't mind them so much. I have to take medicine and do treatments, but those are okay. Sometimes I get angry or sad because this is the way my life is, but for the most part, I accept it. When I am not sufficiently medicated for my mental illnesses (PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc.) I am a complete mess. It's hard to put into words the difference between physical and mental illness, but I'm trying. Mental illness is all-consuming. You can...

Here is a spoof of Supercalifragilistic... I personally LOVE it. I find it truthful, honest and fabulous. Just as a little background, Bob Flanagan wrote a book (and eventually there was a documentary) called Supermasochist. He uses masochism to deal with the pain of his CF. And I feel like, "Hey man, do whatever you gotta do to get through it." Here's to Bob. He lived to be forty-three in an era where the median age of survival was about 19.

So here's my montage... again. BUT I added a couple new photos and took out old ones I didn't like. FIVE DAYS UNTIL GREAT STRIDES!!!

Here's the Viral Video of the day :-) Enjoy.

Mr. Big - son of my friends Chris and Kyra :-)

We've got another election coming up... although it's not as big as the Obama/McCain election. I've loved this forever. If you haven't already seen it, take a look!!!

I watch a lot of YouTube and other videos, and I've decided to share more of them here. Today, my first official Daily Video, is a short documentary on young people with cystic fibrosis. It's called "Dying Young."