hi all

joan asked me to help her send this in
so i did

janet

In a message dated 1998/10/03  21:20:25, joan snyder wrote:
>Subj:=09 [Fwd: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Delivery]
>Date:=091998/10/03  21:20:25
>From:[log in to unmask] (Joan Snyder)
>To:[log in to unmask] (janet paterson)
>
>...This was on my computer today; I have it delivered daily
>rather than read the news. I thought that maybe we could
>think of something similar - maybe have George walk to D.C.
>backwards! - but I don't know how to send it to the list without
>sending an attachment & i don't want to cause any problems!
>Could you give it a once over, & if you think that it has merit
>maybe you could edit it correctly & send it in. Pretty cool, huh?
>lol - I thought that meant "lots of love!" Either  way, thanks
>
>Joan Snyder  (47/8) "Do or do not. There is no try."Yoda
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>http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm
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>Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 03:48:51
>Today's Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul...
>
>Run, Patti, Run
>
>At a young and tender age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor
>that she was an epileptic. Her father, Jim Wilson, is a morning
>jogger. One day she smiled through her teenage braces and
>said, =93Daddy what I=92d really love to do is run with you every day,
>but I=92m afraid I=92ll have a seizure.=94 Her father told her, =93If you=
 do, I
>know how to handle it so let=92s start running!=94 That=92s just what the=
y
>did every day. It was a wonderful experience for them to share and
>there were no seizures at all while she was running.
>
>After a few weeks, she told her father, =93Daddy, what I=92d really love
>to do is break the world=92s long-distance running record for women.=94
>Her father checked the Guiness Book of World Records and found
>that the farthest any woman had run was 80 miles. As a freshman
>in high school, Patti announced, =93I=92m going to run from Orange
>County up to San Francisco.=94 (A distance of 400 miles.) =93As a
>sophomore,=94 she went on, =93I=92m going to run to Portland, Oregon.=94
>(Over 1,500 miles.) =93As a junior I=92ll run to St. Louis. (About 2,000
>miles.) =93As a senior I=92ll run to the White House.=94  (More than 3,00=
0
>miles away.)
>
>In view of her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic,
>but she said she looked at the handicap of being an epileptic as simply
>=93an inconvenience.=94 She focused not on what she had lost, but on what=

>she had left.That year she completed her run to San Francisco wearing
>a T-shirt that read, =93I love Epileptics.=94 Her dad ran every mile at h=
er side,
>and her mom, a nurse, followed in a motor home behind them in case
>anything went wrong. In her sophomore year Patti=92s classmates got behin=
d
>her. They built a giant poster that read, =93Run, Patti, Run!=94 (This ha=
s since
>become her motto and the title of a book she has written.)
>
>On her second marathon, en route to Portland, she fractured a bone in
>her foot. A doctor told her she had to stop her run. He said, =93I=92ve g=
ot to
put
>a cast on your ankle so that you don=92t sustain permanent damage.=94
>=93Doc, you don=92t understand,=94 she said. =93This isn=92t just a whim =
of mine, it=92s
>a magnificient obsession! I=92m not just doing it for me, I=92m doing it =
to break
>the chains on the brains that limit so many others. Isn=92t there a way I=
 can
>keep running?=94
>
>He gave her one option. He could wrap it in adhesive instead of putting i=
t
>in a cast. He warned her that it would be incredibly painful, and told he=
r,
>=93It will blister.=94 She told the doctor to wrap it up. She finished th=
e run to
>Portland, completing her last mile with the governor of Oregon. You may
>have seen the headlines: =93Super Runner, Patti Wilson Ends Marathon For
>Epilepsy On Her 17th Birthday.=94
>
>After four months of almost continuous running from West Coast to the
>East Coast, Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of the Preside=
nt
>of the United States. She told him, =93I wanted people to know that epile=
ptics
>are normal human beings with normal lives.=94 I told this story at one of=
 my
>seminars not long ago, and afterward a big teary-eyed man came up to me,
>stuck out his big meaty hand and said, =93Mark, my name is Jim Wilson.
>You were talking about my daughter, Patti.=94
>
>Because of her noble efforts, he told me enough money had been raised to
>open up 19 multi-million-dollar epileptic centers around the country. If
Patti
>Wilson can do so much with so little, what can you do to outperform
>yourself in a state of total wellness?
>
>By Mark V. Hansen
>from Chicken Soup for the Soul
>Copyright 1993 by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
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