Helen Returns

I received this e-mail from Lynn after sending her another plea for help in understanding my illness. Her response is in correlation to the previous Helen Keller Dina post:

Helen Keller Dina (click for link)

So, my little friend Helen has not only come to visit my beloved Dina, but it appears she has come to stay for a bit—always uninvited and always most unwelcome.

You, she, and I all know that there is little that can be said or done until she decides to leave, and who knows when that will be?

But here is the truth—whether you will, or are capable of believing it—it doesn’t change the fact that it is the undeniable truth to hundreds upon hundreds who know you. And none more than me.

It is this:

You. YOU, Dina Marie Darger Gardner, are needed, wanted, cherished, respected and beloved. Regardless of weaknesses, shortcomings, brain chemistry, bad days, ugly thoughts, and the deepest of self doubt.

It is that simple to all of us. Not so simple to you, I know, I know. Stupid, complicated brain that won’t allow you to see what is real.

Please. I beg you. Trust me until she is gone.

And she will be gone.

I promise.

It is real.

I promise.

Love,

Me

I will hang on to this e-mail just like I have her first one which, by the way, I have read a gazillion times.  I hope everyone has a friend like my Lynn.