Thoughts for us this New Year

[Guest guest]

We are so Blessed to live with our unique challenges NOW. Did you ever

stop to think what our lives would be like if born just 30 years

earlier? With the mindset of that era I'm guessing we would all be

institutionalized. Granted our world is not currently perfect but we

as a society are moving in the right direction of accepting challenged

people.

Think back over this year alone at the various new technologies and

devices you have added to enhance your life. In my life 2005 brought a

Zoom (hybrid cross between scooter and powerchair), a Bruno Outsider

elevator lift on the car allowing me alone to transport the Zoom,

Doorbell to phone intercom, wireless computer keypad I can move for

comfortable typing regardless of whether I'm sitting in the Zoom or

office chair, decorative/attractive grip bars for the bath, a robot

that vacuums, and last but not least a drug pump implanted in my belly

to inject the appropriate drug into my spine.

Things available that I haven't taken advantage of: travel cruises now

handicap available, hot tub/pool lifts allowing solo operation,

computer communications generating speech or typing emails, fall

detection devices to alert emergency response if a fall occurs, porch

elevators for solo operation, and on and on.

Think of ALL the Great Possibilities out there waiting for us in 2006.

Will it be a scalp electrode that makes our cerebellum work more

normal, a drug that turns on brain neural stem cells, or something so

mind boggling and unique that it's concept is beyond our dreams?

Granted life isn't normal or easy for us. Example would be my daughter

finding a golf ball size lump at my spine incision resulting in an all

night ER trip wasting a day of our visit (spinal fluid leak) or dealing

with a son-in-law who is simply miserable in the presence of

an " imperfect " but......focusing on Hope and Positivity and Future

does have advantages.

Love to All and Happy New Year

Eva