Re I'm new here

[Guest guest]

Hi B66F@...

Never a truer word spoken!

>If you have PA you will have to convince people that you may look good but

feel almost dead<

Again this evening one of the distant relations asked me what job I had. I

told her I was on Disability, whereupon she said, " But you are walking and

look well! " Rather than try and explain, I changed the subject to my Wake,

which I would like to have now, rather than after I die. Reason? At this

rate I will be the only mourner at my own funeral, because the rest of the

family will be dead!

>As he put it " when you leave do you really believe the company is going to

put up a statue in you honor? " <

'tis true, 'tis true. My late Father hardly ever took his paid vacation

time, believing the Company would fail without his presence! All it got him

was an early grave at 63 and he never got his life long wish, to visit

America. Odd then that I should go to America, albeit for a family funeral.

I do not think one day passed when I thought about my Father and pondered

over what his thoughts might be if he walked the Strip in Vegas, or ambled

around LA.

In hindsight I was the exact same. I recall The Gulf War, we had to compile

a set of Company Accounts out of nothing but scrapes of paper. I work from

9am to 3am, for two weeks, in order to get these figures ready. I recall

coming home at 3am, listening to what I thought was a story on BBC Radio 4.

I put the kettle on, while the voices said, " We are on the seventh floor of

a downtown Hotel and the night sky has lit up. As I lean out the window an

exorcet missile has just gone up main street and turned left! " Then you

heard the explosion. Gee this is a good story/play and it seems I missed the

opening part. The telephone rang, it was a colleague from work who asked me

if I had the television on. I replied no, because they is a good play on the

radio. I was then told the Gulf War had just started! At this stage of my

life, I was loosing the weight fast, a sure sign that the arthritis was

going to get active. However I did not know then I had arthritis, if I had,

do you really think I would be pulling 18 hour shifts?

I enjoyed my job, I enjoyed the wages, I enjoyed the camaraderie, but let us

be honest here, the most important asset in life is HEALTH!

Without your health, well job, wage and camaraderie cannot be enjoyed to

there fullest.

'tis a hard lesson to learn, which is probably why I now have PA!

Love and God Bless

Gillian

...........Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease........