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While I think its important to blow off sometimes when our P & PA get us down and the world seems bleek it also disturbs me at how much anger there is on this board and because I think balance is important in coping with this condition I thought I'd start a thread on giving thanks. Just think of one thing in your life which you could give thanks for - it can be as silly as you like.
Here's mine:
Thank you for all the great people I have met through having this condition.
Thank you for chocolate cause I love it.
Thank you for my dog - he's always ready to come and snuggle even at 4am when I cant sleep.


I give thanks for my family and friends... who never treated me any different because I have P.


I am thankful that no matter how long I am gone from here I can come back and all of my pfamily is still here......just as supportive.......the best people ever!!!!!!!


I am thankful for my dermatologist and his staff who have gone way out of their way to make sure I got my medication called in to the right pharmacy where I am vacationing.
I am thankful for my landlady here who carried my bag of groceries up the stairs for me yesterday.
I am thankful for my friends on this board who have helped me so,
I am thankful that I can call upon my own experiences with PA, my book learning and my field of study to help other people
I am thankful that I have a safe place to talk about how it feels to have psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis....good and bad.
MK


i give thanks to all the wonderful people i have meet on here and i wish you all the best.
good song buy mcbride, god's will. so true
have a wonderful day all
richard


Thats the spirit.
I give thanks for my wonderful husband who has always made me feel beautiful even when I know I look like a pile of *****


I would like to give thanks to my husband first because he saw through my ugly skin to the beautiful person that I am! He is the greatest!
I would also like to give thanks to my family and friends for never treating me any different and thank you for not always trying to fix me, but only have concern for me.
I would also like to say thank you to everyone here. I am new to this website, (not for sure what took me so long) but now I feel like there are people who understand. Thanks for all the laughs so far! Shelley


I give thanks for my health (aside from the P. ofcourse) -- that allows me to live and enjoy all the wonderful things in my life!!
and a special shout out to my brother for driving all the way from Ohio to see us this weekend and to my nephews and niece who came along ALL that way even though they confessed they only came to see Jeff (our beagle!)
LOL


I am thankful for being clear.
I'm thankful that although my joints are a little achy I am pretty healthy & independent.
I'm thankful for my dh, my family & friends.
I'm thankful we live in such a beautiful new place with all this glorious sunshine.
I'm thankful my son will be here in 19 more days!!!!


i am sooooo thankful my last son is getting married this month..on the 23rd....and then maybe i can relax...lol...linda


I am thankful that all my children are basically heathy and well adjusted in spite of their goofy mother(me)
I am thankful that I found such wonderful people on this site that helps me get through the rough spots
And Rich Martina Mcbride's song Gods Will really hits home as does In My Daughter's Eyes and Concrete Angel


OOOOps I missed this thread .....but hunted it down ... :p

let's see.....I'm thankful for slippery elm........yahoo... :D
for having a swimming pool (I've used it more since P than ever before....who knows maybe thats what kept the P away for so long)
for all my family that lives close by........(but wish I had more grandkids)
thankful my grandson hasn't been sent overseas!!!!
I'll get back later with more........


Thanks Sally for bringing this thread back to peoples attention - I appreciate it hun xxxx


i give thanks for having inlaws and i do. they are wonderful people but from time to time they get under my skin. but i still love them
graet thread stacey
have a good day all
richard


I'd also like to give thanks for all the great people I have met...both in person and soley online.
I'd also like to give thanks to psoriasis because without it I would be a vain person who sees others aflictions as humorous. I've learned a lot from having this disease.


Thanks for bumping this thread, I somehow missed it the first time around.
I'm thankful for all of the people that I've met through this site. (Both in person and on line.) I've made some wonderful life long friends here.
I'm thankful that venting to Michele (luvwinnie) in a PM led me to a wonderful cardiologist who may have saved my 85 year old father's life. (We went to see him for a second opinion, because we were less then thrilled with his original cardiologist. We say it all the time with both derms and rheumy's -- what a difference a doctor makes!)
I thankful for chocolate.
I thankful for sunny days down the shore. (The beach for those of you who aren't from New Jersey.)
I thankful for having wonderful friends and family.
Mike


I'm thankful that God woke me up this morning to enjoy another great day!!!
Diane


I am thankful for having such a wonderful family.
I am thankful for finding this site and all the people that have helped me through bad times.
Polly


I am thankful for a house to come home to, clothes upon my back, food on my table, a job, friends, family and the freedom that I have in the greatest country in the world... I am thankful that I can worship freely and that I can get inspired by folks such as yourselves, who freely give your advice, your support and your prayers when I am in great need of them...
Blessings,
Joe


I am thankful for all those who have been there for me in my Darkest moments and have shown me great understanding. True friends show there colors not when times are good but when you at your worst, and I can say I have been at my worse over the past few months.
and I think some here have forgotten the virtues put forth in this thread

just another thanks to those who have proved themselfs to be a kind stranger in a harsh world.
-Fox


I want to give thanks for the wonderful doctor who brought my daughter safely into this world when all hope seemed to be lost. She would have either have been born dead or brain damaged if not for the quick thinking actions of that doctor and I will never forget what he did for me on the 4th Sept 1999. He even sat next to my bed through the night when I felt alone, frightened and in pain and reassured me and supported me when no-one else was around.
I watched my daughter in her school play on Thursday (she was a caterpillar) and I thought to myself 'How blessed am I?'
Thank you Dr Alunni I owe you more than I can put into words
xxxxxxxxx
Stace


Hi,
I would also like to give thanks to my Doctors. I have a fantastic gp that has literally saved my live over different illness I've had. He is one in a million and I wish him lots of luck and good wishes as he takes his practice to Durham, North Carolina. He will be leaving the Rochester area as early as August and will be now a Clinical Associate Proffesor of Medicene in the Internal Medicene Departmet at Duke. His wife will be the Cheif of Vascular Surgery at the Duke Medical Center. He has been an inspiration to me with not only his care as a Doctor, but as a man with a wonderful sense of humor, knowledge, care, and a man I'm proud to call a friend. Good luck to you, your wife and your 4 children as you travel on to a new phase of your life. You will be missed greatly.
I also give so much thanks to the Doctors I have, Dr Chris Ritchlin, without your work in regards to Humira, we wouldn't be experiencing releif from p and pa. Thanks to you and "Robert" for all the care and time you give your patients and the interest you show in psoriatic arthritis. I was blessed to be able to be your patient and friend and will do everything I can to help further your quest to help other people. Thanks to you so much.
I have many other Doctors I give thanks to for many life altering sitituation and I give thanks to them all.
Sandy