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Hi Sherri,
II was just dropping in to watch all of your wonderful videos, read your bio and check out your website. I have been sharing our mutual friends posts of yours videos on facebook to my friends. You are a HUGE inspirations to me as I deal with these illnesses while being single. I posted a recent video of yours and one of my friends from the 6th grade was brought to tears as she replied. You are the first person for me to invite to facebook because I can not keep up with the people who find me.
Most of my time this Summer is spent looking for safe housing in the area where I live and my few friends are. This is my 3rd Summer looking for safe housing.
I meditate daily and I pray for you and Wayne. Bless you for making those videos that educate people because you pay for it with your health. May He always be there for you Sherri. Hugs, Joyce (JJ)
Joyce what a sweeetie you are! Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words!! I hope you find just the right place next year. My life is blessed to have met you and know I have a friend who cares and understands! You are in my prayers too!
I Love You Sherri ……and just thinking of you
Hi Christine! I can’t believe you found my page! You are so sweet to comment here! I get SO thrilled when I hear from you!!
Hey Sherri! I love you! Thanks for all you do-for so many! You are such an INSPIRATION!
Keep smiling and shining-Jesus is victorious and we know who wins in the end!
Rev 21:4 <3
Love Milly
Milly, you are amazing! You are such an encourager to so many! Thank you for being in my life! LUVU!
Sherri,
Thank you for these amazing videos, I have shared some on my facebook page to try to help people understand what I go through. I can understand how difficult it must be to make these and I don’t have the words to tell you how much it means to me. It brings tears to my eyes.
Love you Sherri
Christine, thank you for your love and support! I am so glad we never lost touch and that you are back in my life again! LUVU!!!
Hello Sherri,
Please allow me to introduce myself as producer/anchor for the newly launched and rapidly expanding Women’s Radio Network. Your husband has done a lot of work for our affiliate network, the Boomer Radio Network. My co-anchor Jennifer Seeley and I are recording a show this upcoming Monday, Oct. 29th from 1-2pm, MST. This show’s theme centers on people with disabilities. We would love to get you on our show to share your story, and the Invisible disabilities Association, if you would like. Our interview slots usually run between 7 and 10 minutes. You would simply need to call into the radio station at the number I will provide. Can you help us? Please let me know ASAP. Thanks in advance!
Kind Regards,
Melissa Garcia
(210) 793-1682
Thank you, Melissa! Sherri will call in on Monday! 🙂
Your book Helpful Hints, A Guide to Understanding What People with Chronic, Debilitating Illness are Going Through, Feel and Need for You was a huge help to me in so many ways. I wrote to Miss Manners about it- and have quoted you ever since.
I can’t thank you enough. Have you been in touch with Wilson Hulley? Anyway, we last corresponded in 200
Wow! Thank you, Dale! That means more to me than you know! I emailed a lot with Wilson a long time ago, but lost contact with him a while back. Not sure when. The book as evolved quite a bit. My hubby incorporated IDA; he and the team have done amazing things with the organization. Thank you so much for your comment!
OMG SHERRI MY HEART IS BLEEDING AND BREAKING FOR YOU AND WAYNE RIGHT NOW. I KNOW YOU ARE HURTING SO THAT MAKES ME HURT TO. LOVE YOU BOTH AND AS DIANE SAYS STAY STRONG AND COURAGEOUS SHERRI
LOVE YOU TONS AND TONS SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, Sean! You are an amazing friend!!! Love you!!
Hi Sherri, My heart hears and feels your journey with lyme! I was diagnosed with late stage lyme after having it unknown to me for over 20 years — I fought for my life and truly underatnd this illness and it’s horrors. I did finally find an incredible healer who can heal the lyme completely with herbal and natural medicine. I can share this info if anyone
is interested.
Blessing to you, and stay strong and heal! Claire
Hi Claire! I have been using natural medicines and very cutting edge formulations for 22 years. I have 9 amazing scientists, doctors and natural compounding pharmacists, as well as Lyme specialists on my case. Please see my page on Medical Advice: https://sherriconnell.com/medical-advice-here/
Thank you!
Sherri
I just shared your page and IDA with a friend who just emailed that she has Lyme’s 🙁 She was recently diagnosed but knows the bite was a few years ago….sooo…..I told her about you briefly and linked her to this page and IDA. Love you!
Thank you, Barb! I hope my page doesn’t discourage her. It is probably early enough for her to still turn things around. Hugs!
The book is wonderful. I read it and shared with some Cameroonian Friends. With less medical advances in Cameroon as in most of Africa, I guess many with Lyme will die before anyone knows what happened to them. They might even attribute it to witchcraft which will increase family problems and suspicion among people.
On the other hand, that you have been coping so well with all the indifference you got and that your husband saw a window in your sickness to bring others comfort is going to turn out to be more rewarding for both of you than anything your talents and giftedness could ever do for you. God’s plan may lead us in the path of the valley of the shadow of death. But the good news is that, he does not send us through that path and stay aloof. He is there with us. Furthermore, our future is certain on that road and not on another. Thank God he chose you and forced you to take this path. It is painful but the pains cannot and shall never compare with the glory that is at the end of your tunnel. God promises to exalt you after the period of suffering (1 Pe. 5:6,10)
Thank you so much! I am so blessed by your friendship and encouragement!
Thanks for this amazing site you’ve created. I was tested for Lyme’s, because I had so many invisible illness symptoms. At age 51, after years of suffering, I was finally diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (another chronic illness). I’m so glad you’re helping so many with your story. God bless you as you fight your fight!
Thank you SO much for the encouraging words!
Sherri – You are an amazing inspiration to so many – including myself. Thanks for your perseverance and strength. I so enjoy reading your posts. Teresa 🙂
Thank you, Teresa! That means more to me than you can imagine!
Sherri, you are a testament to faith. You put all your aches and pains in the hands of God.
And are thankful for everyday you have to inspire others that there is more to life, than
blaming all the what if’s. Has by hubby said, people just don’t know how good they have it.
You are a inspiration to life!
Hi Marsha! I can’t thank you enough for this very kind post you left! It is just what I needed! Hugs to you!!!
wow just watched your video and stories, I pray for you, you are an amazing women !!! what a great life you have had, I am so sorry you have been given all these problems, may the Lord make you stronger everyday..thank you so much for your website IDC, you and your husband are what a strong marriage is all about !!! amazing people !! <3 Thank you for all you do <3
Somehow I missed a bunch of comments! Wow! Thank you, Kathy! How encouraging!
Hi Sherri. Website looks great – good job, Wayne! I shared the IDA website with a co-worker a couple weeks ago, whose wife has fibromyalgia among other ailments. You guys are doing a great thing – keep up the good work.
Sherri, oh Sherri! I don’t believe in coincidence! Today of all days did I find you and your husband’s video on Rest Ministries. Today I found Rest Ministries. All because I was trying to find the Spoon Theory Chart. By the way, have you heard of the spoon theory yet? Oh my goodness friend, you must! It will also help friends and family understand so much more. Each spoon is an “energy” So they will understand that getting out of bed actually “costs” spoons. Look up “the Spoon Theory”. I digress…
I found a cute shirt of what not to say to someone who has an invisible disease. I too have Multiple Sclerosis. I was diagnosed in January 2001. When you were talking in your video, my head wouldn’t stop nodding. And when Wayne was talking about husbands and caregivers, my head nodded even faster. By pinning the shirt, it led me to the Rest Ministries site. I saw the buttons, shirts, etc. But then I saw a video of the authors of the book I was interested in. So I was going to watch it. I am glad I didn’t look at how long it was going to be because I wouldn’t have watched it. Once you started talking, I somehow knew you had MS. Most people nowadays talking about illnesses have Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue. So this may sound bad, I was glad I had a sister talking.
You see I have 3 friends right now who you could have been talking about. Once has Fibromyalgia, and in constant pain. One who has LGL Lukemia, and she is in so so much pain, but not allowed by others to be in pain if that makes sense. Most of the time when you have cancer, people allow it, but not her. And another that has a Dorkload long list of invisible illnesses, I can’t even remember all of them. But no one will allow her to be ill, not even herself.
For me? I am a mother of 2, ages 10 and almost 8. Without makeup I look well so sick. So I have to put on a lot of makeup. I do it mainly for them. It would be scary for your Mommy to look almost dead. So I really doll up if you will. I dress like the other mom’s (not the ones in cutesy gym clothes, and not the ones in high heels) just the jeans and shirt. But my hair is hip if you will. It is short, because it hurts my hands and arms to flat iron too long. I do have a purple streak, because if people are going to stare, I give them something to stare at. I also have a Hot Pink wheelchair that we have blinged out. I have a Barbie Doll Pink walker and a Pink cane. (I act 40 huh). I just say, whatever right? People are baffled when I roll in with my chair, and get up to sit in a regular chair. I love kids though, they will just flat out say, what happened to you. You walked a second ago. If adults did that and wouldn’t say, they are just pretending, wouldn’t it make it easier?
I guess I am saying all of this to say, I praise God for you today. My friend with cancer and I had a discussion about people not thinking she was sick. Not allowing her to be in pain. That I was the only one who understood this kind of pain. My other friend, also has trouble with people not seeing her pain. So I bought both of them books. God has used you and your husband for so many good things and will continue to! I am going to recommend your site to my friends and family. It is just so hard to explain to others.
Thanks again. Sorry this is so long. Believe it or not, my college degree is not in writing! And I do miss teaching! I miss selling Scentsy the way I used to. I even earned 2 trips with it. Now I can barely even think about printing the letter I typed and putting them in envelopes. SO I am not the only one who thinks that is a monstrous task today since I had to take the dog to the groomer and pick her up? I love that you have freed me! Freed me from pushing so hard. !
Hi Rachel!
It is so great to meet you! Yes, Lisa Copen and I have been friends for years and I have heard of the Spoon Theory. I am so sorry for all you have been going through!
I am also so sorry that you lost your ability to work and sell products. I stwrted working at 10 and miss it so much! I miss the accomplishements, friendships and the paychecks!
As you may have read on my blog, the chemicals in fragranced products attack the nervous and immune systems. I know so many who were healthy until they were exposed. People who are left with serious fatigue, migraines, seizures, paralysis, immune suppression, isolation from friends and family and more. Most people don’t make the connection between the chemicals and the symptoms.
I am thrilled to meet you and hope to hear from you on IDA’s Invisible Disabilities Community: http://www.InvisibleDisabilitiesCommunity.org
Hugs!!
Hi, my name bariah I like to see that more and more people are becoming aware of lyme disease. mom has had it since she was 5 and is getting worse. we are trying raise money but nothing is working.
I am so sorry to hear about your mom! I thought I had it a long time (since I was 14). It is a huge battle! I hope she finds some relief!
Hey Sherri!
I watched a few videos of Pumpkin and Cookie and notice how happy you are.
I don’t have goats, but I can see how very therapeutic they are and how make you happy.
This brings tears to my eyes as I’m overwhelmed with the joy they bring you.
Please keep posting videos of them, my wife and I love watching them and hopefully
one day, we can have a couple of goats of our own.
Wow! Thank you so much for being so in tune with how much therapy they provide me! They are very entertaining, curious and loving! They make fantastic pets and therapy animals!
Great resource. I have TBI from childhood and Asperger but my MCS is most debilitating although I believe also the only reason I’m alive (moving from toxic environs for 45 years). Thank you and your husband for this online community.
Hi Toby! It is good to hear from you! Yes, MCS is so isolating! It is nice to meet you! This is my personal blog if you are looking for the Invisible Disabilities Association: http://www.InvisibleDisabilities.org. If you are looking for IDA’s online community: http://www.InvisibleDisabilitiesCommunity.org.
Hey Sherri. This is Ted Garcia from GJHS.
Just wanted to say Hi. God Bless.
Wow! It is SO GREAT to hear from you, Ted! I have so missed you over the years! Thank you so much for commenting! Hope things are going well for you (considering everything else going on). May God Bless you too my friend!