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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 >[log in to unmask] >http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >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 >http://SoupServer.com/friend.html >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D