Coraggio Basket of Encouragement
Coraggio Basket of Encouragement
For one fortunate bidder at the
Invisible Illnesses Benefit
with Chris Trapper tomorrow night!
Buona Fortuna! (Good Fortune!)
Pane di Pasqua Nonna & Grandpa Gigliotti 1970
Pane di Pasqua for a BUONA PASQUA!
Photo of Nonna and Grandpa Gigliotti with “Pane di Pasqua” (traditional Italian Easter bread)
Nonna baked the Easter holiday bread, delicately sweet with anise seed; adding golden raisins and almonds. After the yeast dough rose, she braided it in a ring, with raw eggs nestled in the braid, before baking.
Easter was an important holiday in our Italian family, as important as Christmas, the day-filled with church and family feast. The Pane di Pasqua edible work of art was the centerpiece for our Easter dinner table all the years she was alive. Nonna included an egg for each family member and before leaving the feasting table the braid was broken and each family member received the colorful egg, now hard-baked, and surrounded by the lusciously soft, specialty bread.
(In Nonna Gigliotti’s kitchen, 1970s).
With humble gratitude to Governor Snyder for his commitment to raising awareness about pain management options available to Michigan citizens, and for promoting education of health professionals on the efficacy and importance of good pain control;
And for providing me an opportunity to improve the lives of Michigan citizens who experience pain through today’s appointment to the Michigan Advisory Committee on Pain and Symptom Management! http://michigan.gov/som/0,1607,7-192-53480_56421-259881–,00.html
Michigan Advisory Committee on Pain & Symptom Management
What a great surprise to receive the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America “Great Lakes Greatest Volunteer” Award at the annual chapter meeting last month! See MGFA-GL newsletter…
“… for her dedication to the chapter this past year. Traveling all over the state with her “Coraggio” presentation, she helped patients and supporters to take control of their diagnosis by having the courage to “own” good health, positive attitude and enjoying life’s passions by utilizing work-arounds! Thank you Lisa!”
The “Great Lakes Greatest Volunteer” award is a t
remendous honor, but I believe even more deserving of the award than me are those that wake each morning with pain or muscle weakness yet go about the day with a smile and positive attitude, those who listen to others with myasthenia gravis or chronic illness, and those caregivers who lovingly and selflessly perform whatever task is the need of the moment. With humble gratitude to MGFA-GL chapter! But we’ve only begun– more Coraggio to go!
http://myasthenia-mi.org/Summer_2011_Newsletter.pdf
About the Author
Lisa Gigliotti is an attorney who has lived for more than twenty-five years with severe rheumatoid arthritis and serious myasthenia gravis. Through those years’ thirteen major surgeries and use of a wheelchair Lisa has maintained a fulfilling and positive life.
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