Self-improvement/being positive

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Elaine- just returning the favor. I get much encouragement and plenty

of helpful information from your posts.

I don't notice people watching me walk anymore. In fact, I learned

this in a quite interesting way when I got my scooter recently. I also

learned how many people truly do care. I drove my scooter from home to

our parish to attend and work at our parish festival. I was there

several hours. No way, in the last few years, would I have been able

to do this and be as comfortable and rested. One hour there, on foot,

would have left me sore and exhausted. My wife told me that many

people approached her and told her how glad they were to see me on my

scooter. They had become fearful of me falling and uncomfortable

seeing how much it had begun to be painful to try to stay on my feet

all the time. I also had several people approach me and compliment me

on my scooter and say how glad they were to see me on one. I have yet

to see anyone give me a look of disapproval or voice the same.

As for a good orthotist. Finding one has been a matter of luck and

asking the right people, for me. Good sources of information for me

have been MDA, my doctors, local support groups. Don't stay with one

who seems callous or poorly informed. I actually work with a wonderful

orthotist and a pedorthist (he does my boot work and inserts). The

orthotist can do the inserts, and has, but his shop is so far away, I

go to a guy in my town who is a pedorthist.

Have a good Fourth.

Jim