Falling out of the wheelchair while bending over to put socks on.
Watching children enjoy rides in the wheelchair.
Calluses on hands from using wheelchair.
Regularly receiving coupons in the mail for Depends...and getting
excited.
Before getting out of the car you realize that you have to go
potty and know that the minute you stand up you're going to go and start
praying that the absorbent pad you're wearing holds until you speed
(usually as slow as a turtle) to the bathroom and after all that end up
with a wet spot right in the middle of your butt and you have to walk
out of bathroom knowing that people are around to notice and you can't
possibly sneak back to your car.
Stacy Firth
safirth(AT)dow.com
> Harper33(AT)aol.com[SMTP:JHarper33(AT)aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 4:05 PM
> To: tmic-list(AT)eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: What it is like to have TM?
>
> A few more...
>
> - stumbling over anything -- or nothing.
>
> -knowing where all the bathrooms are in any establishment I am in very
> often.
>
> -being afraid of being thought a hypochondriac if I discuss symptoms
> when I
> "look fine"
> and "seem to get around okay."
>
> -being concerned that people when think I'm a little tipsy (when I
> don't drink
> at all) when
> I misstep and stumble for no apparent reason.
>
> -not being able to play in our once-or-twice-a-year-snowfall with my
> children.
> :(
>
> - finding irregularities never noticed before in familiar floors.
>
> -using a cane with one hand and holding onto a toddler with the other
> and
> having no one in
> the grocery store offer to carry my groceries out to the car.
>
> -fearing MS or a relapse or some new symptom or worsening of symptoms
> is just
> around
> the corner, but trying not to worry about it.
>
> -learning to appreciate what I do have and can do.
>
> -appreciating all of those who have helped in any way and thereby
> realizing
> what true
> friendship and giving of oneself is all about.
>
> -seeking God's grace for every day.
>
> I liked John's TM designations (very creative!) and have one to add:
> Trembly
> Muscles.
>
> Thanks for starting this, Alton! I have enjoyed reading all the
> contributions.
> I can just picture some of them in cartoon form!
>
> Barbara H.
>