Re: Maureen/Do you feel like this/from Di

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Yes! This is true. I spend about 1/3 of my time in a wheelchair, and

I can play golf, hockey and chase my daughters around the house in

it! ha! I have decided that i shall give my neurologists a break for

a while. They need their research material...and that is fine....but

I just get so destablized for about a week or so after. I have NOW

decided that I don't want to waste too much time with regrets or the

like.........at least I don't wish to.

Maybe we should make a list of all the things we CAN do eh? Good

idea...think i will do that! Ha ha.

Merry Christmas.....Huge warm Canadian Hugs!!

Love Di

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> Maureen,

> Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, and may you have

> a really good time with family & friends. Try not dwell on the

things you can

> no longer do, but on what you still can do, and try find some new

things that

> you can do, & have never done before. You can dance, even if you

are in a wheel chair!! I work in a home for disabled adults, some

in wheel chairs, and lots of them dance!. I know what you mean,

though, once in a great while, I can get " down " because of how hard

it is to do something, or there are things I cannot do but would

still like to. But, before long, I kick myself in the butt

(figuratively, of course), and get the heck out of my pity party for

one. Take good care of yourself. A big part of that is trying to

stay positive.

> God bless you!

> Laurel

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> Do you feel like this

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> Normally throughout the year, hubby and I dont go out much and

we

> both like it that way. I call myself a true " cancerian " . I

love my

> home!! A real homebody. Because of the festive season we have

been

> out alot with friends for dinner, I find these occasions quite

hard

> to deal with, as you all would know. Trying to eat without

having a

> choking fit and trying to talk and compete with the noise in the

> restaurant. Its times like these that I feel SO disabled and

then I

> get real depressed because it hits home how disabled I am. I

> sometimes feel that it would be better not to go out with

friends.

> Does anyone else feel like that? We are going out again for New

Years

> Eve and that occasion really gets to me because its such a get

up and

> get with occasion. I used to love dancing and my husband and I

would

> be on the dance floor all night. Now we just sit and watch or

he

> dances with one of our friends. I am thinking about pulling out

of

> New Years Eve.

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> Sorry to sound so depressing but Christmas really gets to me

lately.

> I will be glad when its over and also January because in

Australia

> that is our vacation month. It reminds me of how I cant go in

the

> sea anymore, which I so loved.

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> I know I should count my blessings because at least I can go out

with

> friends and can still eat at a restaurant. There are others who

are

> far worse off than me.

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> Maureen in Australia

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