you have been watching that commercial wheelchair, lol
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:10 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: A Body At Rest.... stays at rest and A Body In Motion... stays in motion. The same could be said of the mind and spirit. Stay Active. Best Wishes In a message dated 8/20/2014 11:57:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Same thing goes for me, so I have made a great effort to start changing my blue routines and get out of the house more. I took a master gardening course this spring and have now increased the number of hours I am volunteering. Now that school has started I signed up to go to the local elementary school and work with kindergartners and some first graders. They are still small enough to sit in my lap while I read to them, or the first graders read to me. I get a great deal of pleasure over the school year watching the children mature and learn to accept me as a person and not just an oddity to be stared at in a wheelchair. >For me at 75 it is sometimes hard to remember that I have the type of >personality that has to have something to look forward to, because it is more >comfortable for me to just withdraw into my shell and eventually find myself >withdrawing from outside activities. Then I find that I hurt more, sleep more >poorly, and start to become a “bitch” and find myself being critical of >little petty things that shouldn’t matter. I have also volunteered in the >past at our local library during children’s hours reading to them. >It doesn’t always help and I have my down days, but it certainly goes a long >way to improve my mental attitude. Sometimes I put on a good face in front of > other people, and then find I have actually improved how I really do feel. >Getting old isn’t so much fun, but I am looking at other people my age with >out SCI and they are having just as many problems only with different things. >I don’t know how long I will be blessed with relatively good health and >already ¼ my classmates from high school have passed on, so I plan to treasure > as much as possible each day that I am given and as Bobbie says “smile >everyday” and im trying to make somebody laugh every day. >My sister and I used to say about my mother that she didn’t have something to > worry about she would go look for something to worry about. Damn if I don’t >find myself staring to do the same thing, money, how long is my chair going to > last, etc etc etc and so forth. I wish there was a shutdown button for my >brain, but since I haven’t discovered it I’m going to have to assume there >isn’t one. Hang in there, find something innocuous to worry about. Good luck >and I hope you have a great day. >Joan > >From:Larry Willis [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:10 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Bad few Days > >I've had those same feelings quite a few times, Greg. It feels like you are >about to explode. I also sometimes chill/shiver when I am hot. I small dose >of Xanax before bed helped me a lot. Growing old in the land of quadom is a >.........Yes, it is. > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: greg <[email protected]> >Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 >Subject: [QUAD-L] Bad few Days >To: [email protected] > > >Just spent 2 days in the ER, well 1 in the ER, 1 in a room. >Woke up overheated which sometimes causes a claustrophobic / panic feeling. I >felt panicked and like I could not get enough of a breath. I also felt like I >was going to get sick. I thought maybe a UTI or something. They were worried >about my heavy chest, so I had an x-ray, CAT scan, which lead to an >angioplasty. Luckily everything came out fine. They think my heavy chest is >from my spine curving causing pressure. So they are setting up an appointment >with a lung doctor soon. I did have a UTI also. > >But I get so frustrated with this stupid panic feeling. I worry about >everything and can't stop. I worry about that I'm going to worry. Wake up >feeling like I just have to get up into my chair. It's a scary panic. It use >to happen maybe once every few years, but lately it's more often. I think >it's my heavy chest making it worse. I just don't feel like I'm getting >enough oxygen. The doc says the lung doc might subscribe an oxygen tank at >night. Once the feeling is one, I feel so stupid about worrying about that >stuff. > >Getting overheated seems to be the trigger point most of the time. The >problem is I feel so cold at night, even shivering. I would swear I'm cold… >But if I uncover a bit and cool off, I actually get better. So I swear I'm >cold, but actually I'm too hot. This only started a few years ago. Anyone >else have that issue? I'm sure it's a nerve ending issue. But I just shake I >feel so cold, problem is sometimes it is because I'm cold. So anything I do >to get warmer only makes me shiver more and get more overheated. So I just >don't know if I'm hot or cold, it feels exactly the same. > >No fun getting old, Greg >
