I would like to share with you, what one of my friends on DS told me:

I had a very bad day one day and i wrote to her. I was so down because of my lympedema: She told me, i know how you feel but just remember that you have lympedema and lymphedema does not have you, you are greater than lympedema, try to always walk a step further so that you are ahead of it. Those are wise words i hold on to each day and i try to apply them to each situation i go through in life.

Perhaps that will help someone to as it helped me, i am now one step further than my lympedema. I have lymphedema and it does not have me, although i do have some pain some days, i talk to lympedema like i am talking to a person. Lympedema i have you and you dont have. That just encourages me to go a step further, eat healthly, feed my soul, stay positive, sing , write and deprive the pain. That is how i try to be one step further with lympedema and also just make it bettter where i can, lymphedema does not have me, i have lympedema that is why i try to to control it. Perhaps thinking like that when we are in pain will help. It has helped me alot. I tell Lympedema you will not take over my life i shall live through it all, through it all i will smile, through it all i will feed my positive thoughts, through it all i will wear a smile :-) :-)

We have to carry a tourch of strenght, hope and faith in our daily lives. Things will get better.

Always remember the most two powerfull words: FAITH AND HOPE.

Ps dont forget to wear your smile each day for it is the greatest accessory you own

Stay blessed. I love you all :-)
Annery