WOOT,BOOYA,HELL YEA!!!!!

Just in case you missed the title of this post.....WOOT,BOOYA,HELL YEA!!!!!!! *laughing maniacally while doing the happy dance around the room* I guess you know who I voted for now! LMAO Sitting here watching Obama's speech.....what a man! He is our bridge, a bridge to and for so many things. I have confidence that he'll get things done and help pull us out of this hole that bush has dug for us these last 8 years. Obama just rocks!!!!!!!! Another moment in history that I will forever remember, that I can tell my granchildren about when they're old enough.

I sit here and remember the few bits of history that we'll never forget. The day in high school I stood looking at the sky watching the first woman and teacher going to outer space. What pride, I as a young woman, felt that day. Knowing more in that moment that all things were truly possible to me. The confusion and then disbelief as I cried, as the world cried, at the horrific tragedy we had just witnessed with our own eyes.

I sat in a rocking chair in a small but cozy house, rocking my 2nd child, my 1st girl, at the age of 20, watching the wall come down in Berlin. Crying, rocking and telling my little baby what was happening on the tv. What it meant to so many people.

The day I watched in disbelief as more lives were lost not on the way to space, but just miles from home, in our sky, the astronauts that lost their lives.

The day we shall truly never forget, September 11, 2001. Our eyes shed tears, our souls wailed our pain, our mouths screamed at the blue sky, and our minds tried to shrink away from what we were witnessing in real time on tv, in some cases, standing right there with the noise of sirens and yells, screams of their neighbors and friends echoing in their ears. That moment in time our world seemed to stop and quit breathing along with all of us. Thinking back, I can't remember a longer day. Having some time and distance, it didn't take long for it to all happen from the first plane till both towers came down.

I am old enough to remember the Gulf War, the first part of war after Sept 11,2001,Operation Enduring Freedom and just a couple of years later the Iraq war began. This one very personal because my oldest son is now there, along with thousands of others. I was born while the Vietnam war was happening and it ended when I was 5. Being so young I have no memories of it like my parents and grandparents.

39 years of my life....those few things and now this day...this night, history has come to call and we're all so lucky to see it happen. This shows us all that we do have a voice, that we can be heard, we can make a difference. I only wish that my fellow rsd'ers will see this simple truth too and work toward making everyone aware of our syndrome. Make RSD/CRPS a household name, like cancer. I shouldn't be surprised but am, at the complete apathy of most of them at wanting to actually DO something!! To demonstrate my point.....the year after rsd began for me I thought why not write a book about rsd. There aren't resources out there for us like there is for other conditions like cancer, ibs, crohn's, etc. I wanted my book to be OUR voice telling the world about us, showing people real numbers and show this isn't a "rare" thing! I make up a survey covering all that I can, want people to write their stories for the book. Show others what our lives our like every day. How isolating it is, the disbelief of others, how friends and family turn their backs on us. What do you think happened? Yup...that's write....out of the hundreds of people I was reaching on the internet in numerous groups, I was lucky to get barely 70 people to complete my survey and less than 10 who sent me their stories. That, more than anything, outraged me!! You sit in these groups crying and whining about the pain, no one understands, no one knows what rsd is. I give them a way to be heard and they turn their backs on me. MILLIONS of us out there and you want to continue to whimper instead of scream. *shakes head* I still don't get it.

Ok...I think I've spoke my mind enough tonight. :-D I'm putting this one up now and am going to do one more post on a big announcement. I'm not putting it here simply because I don't want it to be lost amid everything else.