From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #40 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, May 31 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 040 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #39 [Lynne Florio ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 19:43:56 -0400 From: Lynne Florio Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #39 Mary - you said that so well-thank you! I share your sentiments. Everyone has some kind of hardship, some kind of personal mountain they've got to climb. Joni will get through this if she realizes the only equipment she needs for this journey is deep in her soul. Wishing her strength during her recovery. She's already got love and admiration in spades. Lynne in Allentown, NJ Sent from my iPhone > On May 31, 2015, at 4:07 PM, JMDL Digest wrote: > > > JMDL Digest Sunday, May 31 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 039 > > > > ========== > > TOPICS and authors in this Digest: > -------- > Re: aneurysms, rehab, Joni ["mep@chorus.net" ] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 16:06:54 -0400 (EDT) > From: "mep@chorus.net" > Subject: Re: aneurysms, rehab, Joni > > Catherine wrote: > > "Thanks for that email. This really makes me feel relieved and better about Joni's health. Knowledge is power and all that. May Joni get better every day, and I do believe she has it in her to do this." > > Catherine, I agree that she has it in her to do this--and not only that, but she's done a version of it before. > > Lately I've been listening to interviews that Joni has given over the years, and in one (NPR, fall, 2014?), she discusses her hospitalization with polio at age 8 or 9. We've all probably heard a version of the story before: being told she would never walk again, few visitors, singing to the Christmas tree, etc. But the part of her experience as was related in this interview that was new to me was this: medical personnel started a treatment with her, gave up. . .*and Joni continued it on her own, day after day, when no one else was there.* This tells me that, even as a very young girl, when she had a tremendous will to do something, there was no stopping her. > > Does she still have this will at 71, with regard to (perhaps) regaining her ability to speak? There's no doubt that I would prefer her, at this age, to be accepting richly-deserved honors and accolades for a spectacular career, and relaxing by doing whatever she regards as fun. But this would be the *second* time in her life that she attempted something of this magnitude. And she achieved her goal the first time around. > > Whatever her goal may be this time, whatever constitutes "success" for her: I'm in her corner, cheering her on from afar. I hope that, at some level, she can feel that support from all of us. > > Mary. > > ------------------------------ > > End of JMDL Digest V2015 #39 > **************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #40 **************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------