Re: My Story Continued-Hopefully No more Gremlins
D.C.Jones (jones(AT)tdl.com)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:46:58 -0700
Pooper48(AT)aol.com wrote:
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> This is my storu amnd U would like opionions.
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> When I frist got sick I qas in New Mexico. I had a rerrible painin my back
> and I noticed that I was dragging my right leg. Mt husband said I needed to
> gohome that we weren't in a place to get sick(we
> were trave;ing for his work). I caught aflight home and in the 2 hours it
> took to get here I couldn't move anything. To cut this down some in 3 months
> I was able to walkwith just a cane orholding on to someones arm.I went back
> to N.M. because I wanted to be with my husband& it was almost Xmas. On 1/7/91
> it hit across my shoulders. My husbandwas at work and I was taqken to a small
> hospita
> by tha time he arrived I had to go to the bathroom really bad. Ihad to
> self-cath and needed help. I asked him to call a nurse abbd was told by him
> to shut up there were sick peop;e in there. Anyway we were talked into
> letting this Doctor? take a look which was my fault but, I was in such pain I
> would have done most anything.It made me alot worse I could not move at all
> without help and sitting up was out of thequestion. I was sent home in the
> back of an Explorer flat on my back for a 21 hour drive because he had ro
> work and couldn't take care of mr to.So it was up to my mother here iis were
> the fun starts. I got a T.V. with a remote so I could change channels it
> would be taken awat from mand put on a table where I couldn't reach it. She
> decided that I didn"t take my meds right so took them and wou;ld give them
> the way she wanted. When I would ask for one of them she would bring them all
> and say take them all and die B____.If I caried I got a wash rag stuffed in
> my mouth. The phone was taken away so I couldn't call for help.I have and had
> no control over bowels and bladder. Her words were tou do this S___ on
> purpose you M_____ F_____ and use dry papertowels to clean me up, The lady
> next door would come over and see my legs and tell her to stop throwing me
> into the railings that my legs were all brused. She even called my husband at
> 4 in the morning and told him but, he would not come cahe didn"t want to take
> off work.It is 6 almost 7 years later and I figured that if I didn"t do
> something I was going to die and I wasn"t read to go yet. Now I cook, do all
> the cleaning, sll the shoping, cut the grass and drive the car. I am 48 and
> raising 2 grandchildren 10 and 6.Yes my mother is still in the picture and so
> is my husband of 21 years. He still travels for his work and I get to go
> visit the differentplacrs for a week or so but that is not the way it is
> suppose to be.Well that"s about it. I have never told this story and I just
> wonder what someone else would think
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> Thanks for listening
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> Patti
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God Blees you Patti. I cannot help but cry. dave