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Re: [RC] Tell Your Story - Joe LongOn Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:13:29 -0400, "Stephanie E Caldwell" <sec@xxxxxxxx> wrote: ... but about that time I became ill with a chronic disease, they've yet to pin point exactly what I have but my Drs. have told me not to count on living long enough to see my children grow up should I be able to have kids. ?????? They don't know what's wrong but they make a prediction like that? When I married my first wife Robbie (she was 22), the doctors convinced her to have her tubes tied due to her inoperable heart condition. They told us that if we were lucky, we would have ten years together. We had 28. When Kat and I got married (to get her on my health insurance, would you believe it?), the doctors told her she had only two or three years to live, five at the very most. That was nine years ago, and she's better today then she was then. I decided then that the *quality* of mine, and those that I have control of, is the most important, not how long we live, but how much we enjoy what we are allowed to live. That is very, very true. And, none of us really knows how much time we have. There's a quote that says "God does not count against the time alloted us on this earth, time spent on the back of a horse." I'm paraphrasing from memory; I believe it was from Churchill. -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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