well Im not gonna dwell on 14 years,,,,,wow! the past 3 years have been the most wonderful years of my life. never have i had so much to wonder about! ergo,,,,,wonderful.
--- On Tue, 8/30/11, bobberino <elbobber...@earthlink.net> wrote: From: bobberino <elbobber...@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [TMIC] gone to facebook To: "Roger & Terese Pratt" <r.c.pr...@frontier.com>, "Barbara H." <barbara...@gmail.com> Cc: "Jeron Rampersad" <rumc...@hotmail.com>, bpe...@austin.rr.com, cherp...@msn.com, tmic-list@eskimo.com, "kevin weilacher" <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 2:25 PM Wow........!!! Nice to see all of this sudden activity at the TMIC list......... seems to me that y'all were hiding because of the crappy weather. Nice to hear from 'some many' again. Yep, we're ones of the earlier members. Me missus had her first attack on 97 September. How time flies. regards, Bobberino ---- Original Message ----- From: "Roger & Terese Pratt" <r.c.pr...@frontier.com> To: "Barbara H." <barbara...@gmail.com> Cc: "Jeron Rampersad" <rumc...@hotmail.com>; <bpe...@austin.rr.com>; <cherp...@msn.com>; <tmic-list@eskimo.com>; "kevin weilacher" <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [TMIC] gone to facebook > Barbara, You were one of my first "friends" online. I too have had TM for > 16-17 years and now I have mononeutritis multiplex, another autoimmune > condition that effects peripheral nerves. Knowing that I have friends out > there, even if we don't post that often, means a great deal to me. - Roger in > Kennewick, WA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barbara H." <barbara...@gmail.com> > To: "kevin weilacher" <hwyfli...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "Jeron Rampersad" <rumc...@hotmail.com>, bpe...@austin.rr.com, > cherp...@msn.com, tmic-list@eskimo.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:44:02 AM > Subject: Re: [TMIC] gone to facebook > > I'm still here, too. I don't comment as much -- if someone else has already > said what I might have said, then I don't usually chime in. The TMIC as a > whole is not nearly as active as it was when I first joined back some...oh, > 14-15 years ago. I'm coming up on my 16th "anniversary" with TM on Sept. 1. I > think one reason is that there is a lot of information available online now, > and that's a good thing. When I first contracted TM, I didn't have a > computer, and the local library had a two-page spread in one medical book, > and that was it. TM was the first thing I searched for when we did get a > computer, and this group was the first concrete link I found. It was a > godsend, really, to have somewhere to post questions and compare notes. But > now that so much more information is online, people may be getting their > questions answered in their own research. > > And I think, too, for some of us who have been here a while, we've gotten our > basic questions answered (even if the answer in some cases is that there is > no known answer), so there's not as much to talk about. The main reason I > stay on now is to be of help if anyone else has a question or just needs some > empathy and support. > > Too, as Roger said, some have gone on to other means of communication now. I > think the TM message board or bulletin board was pretty active for a while, > and now Facebook is where many people go to interact online. I was in the > group there for a while, but left -- the 50+ messages Bobby Jim referred to > were just too much for me. When I first came online, TMIC was about the only > thing I "did" online besides an occasional e-mail to family who had e-mail. > But now nearly everybody has e-mail, many friends are on Facebook, I've found > several blogs I read as well as news and entertainment -- now I have to be > careful not to let computer time eat up too much of my day. And I don't know, > but I think that may be the biggest reason some folks aren't as active. > > When I send out birthday greetings, if an e-mail bounces back to me, I'll > make a note of it so I don't post that non-working e-mail again next time, > but I don't delete the name in case they come back. It is sad every month to > see that there are almost as many inactive names there as there are active > now. I miss hearing from some of those folks and wonder how they are. > > But I truly think as long as there is a TMIC, there will be some of us here. > We just need to wave every now and then. :-) > > Barbara H. > http://barbarah.wordpress.com >
