Thank you for your eloquency and all of your kindness.  Have a wonderful holiday - say hello to that owl :)

Happy Thanksgiving Matia to you, Boaz, family and staff.  

Thank you for sharing!

Thank you Dr Brizman for your beautiful post about being thankful. That says it all. I am so grateful for the many blessings and wonderful people in my life. I have been dealing with IC for many years and it has completely changed me. Sometimes it becomes very hard to be thankful and count my blessings. This illness is devastating physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I have to really push myself to have an "attitude of gratitude", but I know if I don't my outlook won't be good. I'm very grateful to be working with you and am also grateful for all of the ladies who post about their experiences with treatment. Wishing you and your family as well as my fellow ICers a great Thanksgiving and continuing better health.

Thank you Dr Brizman for the compassion and kindness of your soul, for giving us hope and strenght to overcome our darkest moments, thankful to have a mentor like you in life that we can learn, walk with. Happy thanksgiving to you, your family and bomamed.

We don't have Thanksgving is the UK and I hadn't realised that it was this weekend.
 
I try so hard to be thankful and it is easier when IC Symptoms, espcially the bladder are not blinding me with fear and pain but it is such a reminder to me to be thankful even in those times, espcially in those times when dark thoughts can insidiously creep into our psyche.
 
So thank you so much for this reminder, for your beautiful words, for your opening your soul for us to see, for your giving spirit and for sticking with us through thick and thin, may your life continuously bring you joy and satisfaction.
 
I know that your children bring you so much joy as my daughter does for me but they too are lucky to have such a wonderful mother in you to guide them through their lives and protect them both physically, mentaly and emotionally. May you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving and continue to have a wonderful and happy life together.
 
From a fellow lover of the beautiful sounds of our feathered friends, thank you for your continued kindnesses and reassurances.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Matia, your family, and everyone at BOMAMED.  You are a very kind and compassionate person.  Thank you for answering all the endless e-mails, and to Raquel and Lynn for their cheerful attitudes and helpful cooperation.  It is greatly appreciated.

I am from the Czech Republic, Europe, and we don´t have Thanksgiving either. After a long time of suffering, hesitating, lurking around and thinking I am getting crazy I´ve just started to fill out my evaluation form today, and after reading this post found out that it is Thanksgiving. 
Well, everybody around me just think that I went crazy, starting treatment in L.A. in my condition and financial situation. It´s not going to be easy, but well:
I am thankful that I found this site. I am thankful that my English is good enough so I can at least read, speak and understand quite well most of the time. I am grateful that I can make my own liberate decision, no matter what the cost is. And, most importantly, I am thankful for the hope I gained reading not only this blog, but all of your stories, as they are narratives of an endless desire to live.
I guess I have my own little Thanksgiving in the middle of Europe.:)
 
 

Thank you, Matia, for everything you do for us. For being patient and always being just an email away. I'm so grateful I found you :)

Thank you Dr. B for your post.  It is amazing this journey that I've started less than 3 months ago.  I give thanks every day that God lead me to your website and your work.  I think today is more special because of this, for me it is.  Today may be the first Thankgiving where I dont get to indulge and enjoy in family food traditions, today I may not see my family together, but today I thank you for getting me through the rough patches recently and for what is yet to come.  I thank you for jut being you.  I never in my wldest dreams after searching endlessly for 7 months would have thought that I would find such a caring, understanding Doctor.  Knowing that you are there to help us when we are at our worst pain, this I am foever grateful after many late nights being scared and fear of what is yet to come. 
I am also so very thankful for the wonderful support group on this site.  I look forward to learning from others, being able to help others where I can, especially those that have just recently found your site.  I am thankful for those that are there and able to pick me up when I am down and lost & anxious because of the pain.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.  May your day be as painfree as possible filled with love and support of those close to you.
 

Thanks God for Matia, her knowledge, patience, compassion, and humanity. Raquel and Lynn are great, too! Bomamed rocks!
 

I was only thinking not not even half an hour ago about the blind love that animals give as my poorly kitten who's just had an operation, looked into my eyes and this coming from a previous self confessed animal loather!
 
I'd overlooked so many things in my life and was so dependant on weightless, useless, damaging things when all I have is here in plain sight and I'm extremely grateful for all that I've learnt.  I too can hear the owls from my bedroom window!  I'm so glad to have become an animal lover and a world lover - gushing sentiments but true all the same.

I am thankful for so many things.
My sweet little girl who reminds me everyday to stop and look, my funny boys who drive me crazy sometimes but also thrill me with their growing up, my incredible Superman of a husband who is hardworking, patient, supportive and pretty darn cute. Finding this site and Dr Brizman: this information and journey is like a culmination of years of reading about health and nutrition.  Never thought I'd need it but I am so thankful she's here since I do! The emotional growth that (despite the horrendous moments) is happening day by day, the fact that I have the resources to afford my $ 80. pastured turkey from my farmer buddy, my nice warm bed. If I am having a rough night IC wise- I conciously thank God for my comfortable warm bed and it helps. There are so many things to be grateful for and suffering more than the average person has brought the simple things into even a brighter light.
 
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thanks for all the support!
 
 

We don´t celebrate thanksgiving in the UK, but everyday I thanks to the universe for your help and your guidance along this tough journey, I really do.
 
You are wonderful.
 
I wish you a fantastic thanksgiving day with family and friends.
 
Lots of love
 
Sonia