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bkite

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PALS
Diagnosis
06/2013
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US
State
Washington
City
Yakima
As I arrive at year four since diagnosis, and struggle with the loss of all ability for self care, the use of my voice, the driving of my wheelchair and even the ability to handle my own saliva, I need to remember the following...

"I should like to suggest some traps into which we can fall, if we are not careful, as we try to meet the challenges that life delivers at our doorsteps. A major one, is the trap of self-pity. One man has said that “hell is being frozen in self-pity.” Indeed, at times when... our lot is hard or when we feel our selves misunderstood, it is so easy for us to indulge ourselves in feeling... self-pity. A contrasting episode comes to us out of ancient Greece: Several hundred Spartans were holding the pass at Thermopylae, that narrow pass, and the Persians came in overwhelming numbers and urged the Spartans to surrender. Hoping to intimidate them further, the Persians sent emissaries to the Spartans, saying they had so many archers in their army they could darken the sky with their arrows. The Spartans said, “So much the better. We shall fight in the shade.”
 
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