Slowing down of Board

[lighter]

Hmmmm.... I thought I read something about your shoulders being the reason for the chair?

Maybe not.

For a second there..... I thought you were looking for reasons to NOT get something your doc said you needed.

Sorry.



Lighter

[Izzy_*now*]

S'ok lighter

The occupational, not physical, therapist TOLD me that my shoulders would give out before I do.

Now that is not proof enough for me to lay out over $6,000.00 when I have had no shoulder problems (the muscles sometimes tire from putting the chair into the car from a seated position, too many times in one day).... no bone/socket problems.

So I asked my doctor, as I said I didn't feel right just taking her word, with no examinations etc.; so no power chair yet.

It's one of those times I felt I was being 'pushed'....unnecessarily, as though she receives a commission on sales of chairs.

details, details, some times I say too much and sometimed not enough...........

Love
Izzy

[lighter]

::SIGH::  I guess you'd have to get a vehicle that could cart a power chair....

and a lift for it, too?

Lots to think about, for sure.

Lighter

[Izzy_*now*]

Yep

I've thought about a van with a sliding door on the driver's side (was shown one when I bought this car) as I could open the sliding door, insert wheelchair, while standing...........oh  it was loverly........but then I thought I would have to adopt 10 children to fill up the rest of the back.

Even if I need a power chair, on down the road, I can still use a folding one for when I take the car, but I'm not sure I will buy a new car, when this 19 year old one gives out! (I think 2-door cars are hard to find.)

[Sela]

Hey Izzy,

The occupational, not physical, therapist TOLD me that my shoulders would give out before I do.

Who died and made this therapist all knowing predicter of your future physical events?

Reminds me of someone I know who was down with an M.S. attack.  She asked the "therapist" visiting her home to help her try using the cane, when she was just emerging from bedrest and starting to feel like moving around again....... and the response she received was:

"I don't know what you want to bother for.  You're going to end up in a wheel chair anyway."

 

The "therapist" was told to "f off and get out and never come back!!!"

The lady with M.S. went into remission, regained most of her function and walks, does Tai Chi, even dances now without assistance.

Not sure what happened to that "therapist".  She should have been fired, if you ask me.

Sela

[Izzy_*now*]

Thanks Sela

That was a good one, and a therapist can do much, as the ones in my Rehab did to get me stronger and up and ambulating on crutches, although I didn't 'walk' out of the hospital.

More and more strength came to me as time passed and I kept using the crutches. Let's say 2 years altogether to become comfortable on them.

At this point NOW, I am back to about where I was when I entered Rehab at age 30, gym twice a day, arm exercises twice a day. break for lunch, break for dinner....................................I swear to the Heavens above, I cannot do that now at 69, until I am 71, then fall and break a hip and end up in the w/c for the rest of my life.  It's time to be old............but it is not time for me to be lazy.      IMAGINE!

but talking about awful responses, another gal patient, married, 2 boys, broken neck, so a quadraplegic and had quite some difficulty with her hands.
It was Tuesday and her husband and her boys were coming, so she was fixing up, without the usual help from a nurse, as the nurse on duty said,

"Why bother. Who would look at you anyway?"

So I helped her with her hair and a bow and straightened her blouse and those damned bell bottoms, in style then, just flopped for us in chairs, but I fixed hers as best I could, checked her nails and tidied her lipstick. The nurse came through and gave me a dirty look.

No matter where you look, you will not find 2 people exactly the same, and I remember telling the nurses that their chart on the wall did not fit me.
xx
Izzy

[mudpuppy]

I miss seeing MUD

Jeez, I must have one of those web cam thingies and didn't know it.

I still read and check for PMs. Just not much to say, plus this month is very busy preparing for trial about property rights with bro. Have an anvil of a surprise to drop on his head at trial. Looking forward to his Wile E. Coyote moment.

mud

[Hopalong]

Mud, do pm...I'd like to know the weight of that anvil.

Kudos.

And boy am I glad you're still here.

Hops

[lighter]

I'm sending you wishes for peace and closure, Mud.

::picturing Izz with 10 mini Mackenzie brothers, loaded into a van::

[teartracks]

Hi everyone,

I just got to thinking about how young the Internet  is.  Not even twenty years old yet?   It would be hard to determine all the variables that brought the board to this point because the Internet, as we know it, has been in existence for such a short time.   For sure Dr. G was a forward thinker and we who have participated on the board have in a small way been history makers.   Over these almost ten years the board has been in exixtence, the Internet has gone from being a small source of information to being a virtual wall of information and that is no doubt an important variable.

I agree with you CB that we shouldn't sound the death knell because Dr. G said he was thinking about whether he should or shouldn't close it.

tt