Michelle and Nancy, I ask you to please reconsider and rescind your request to be taken off this List.
Michelle, Ron isn't all gloom and doom. I believe this is the same Ron that was very helpful and instructive a year or so ago when I asked about hand-cycles. He generously went out of his way to give specific instructions on the Dragonfly and the gloves and personal experiences with his bike that would have been invaluable had my friend actually had enough function to ride it. ( We've recently gone to plan B with a different hand-cycle and it might work out.) Ron, like Nancy and so many others here on this List have unwittingly helped me as a caregiver to one quad and a friend to an increasing number of people with SCI's. I've learned much from their personal experiences on topics like travel, adaptive equipment, technology, medications, procedures, legislation and advocacy and the list goes on. Pun not intended. I'm continually sharing with those I can what I've learned here. Michelle i'm sure that you, in time, would have something to add or take away from this Group. Yes, I have to admit that I too was a bit rattled by the tone of the poem. I've regrouped now and am more emboldened to do my part to effect change in my realm, no matter how insufficient it may be. By the way, are you still riding Ron? Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Michelle Harkness <hotwheelsmiche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > How can I be removed from this email list? > > Thanks, > Michelle > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:59 PM, nichole rohling <zoocr...@windstream.net> wrote: >> >> Yes, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 >> >> I’m blessed because I can see all of those being very possible. >> >> add >> got stuck outside in your chair and no one to help >> had to call someone in the middle of the night to get you on a shower chair >> because you had diarrhea >> sat at home because van door is broken J >> >> Nicki >> >> From: Larry Willis [mailto:lwillis82...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 2:23 PM >> To: quad-list@eskimo.com >> Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Quick poem >> >> More quad quickies to meditate. Feel free to contribute. >> >> Have you ever........ >> 1. Not eaten for a long time because you dread the bowel ritual. >> 2. Not brushed your teeth because of the hassle. >> 3. Worn dirty clothes because no one would/could do the laundry. >> 4. Had chips for a meal because there was nothing else that you could fix. >> 5. Sat for hours after your chair/van broke down. >> 6. Had a bowel/bladder accident in a public place with no way to >> exit.....church, theater, class, work. >> 7. Fallen from your chair while home alone. >> 8. Become choked or congested and unable to cough. >> 9. Been cursed, belittled by a caregiver. >> 10. Had a public confrontation with a stranger. >> 11. Gone over a week without a bowel movement. >> 12. Prayed to God that you won't wake up. >> 13. Been so depressed you lose all interest in living. >> 14. Wrecked your van. >> 15. Been stuck at the bottom of the stairs with no offer of help. >> Larry Willis >> Retired and proud of it >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Gmail <bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com> >> Date: October 13, 2015 at 1:55:19 PM EDT >> To: Larry Willis <lwillis82...@gmail.com> >> Cc: "quad-list@eskimo.com" <quad-list@eskimo.com> >> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Quick poem >> >> I do. Bobbie >> >> Smile Everyday >> >> On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Larry Willis <lwillis82...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The opening line of your poem is a grabber. How many of us on here actually >> do that? I do. Often. >> >> Larry Willis >> Retired and proud of it >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Gmail <bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com> >> Date: October 13, 2015 at 12:21:47 PM EDT >> To: Larry Willis <lwillis82...@gmail.com> >> Cc: "quad-list@eskimo.com" <quad-list@eskimo.com> >> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Quick poem >> >> Wow, right on the mark. Especially as the years and decades pass by. >> >> It's quite indescribable, but you came pretty fucking close. >> Bobbie >> >> >> >> On Oct 13, 2015, at 6:56 AM, Larry Willis <lwillis82...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Wow, Ron, my feelings exactly. Exactly. >> >> Larry Willis >> Retired and proud of it >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com >> From: RONALD L PRACHT <r.pra...@sbcglobal.net> >> Date: October 13, 2015 at 3:06:14 AM EDT >> To: Quad-list Post <quad-list@eskimo.com> >> Subject: [QUAD-L] Quick poem >> Reply-To: RONALD L PRACHT <r.pra...@sbcglobal.net> >> >> Quad Life >> >> Every night when I go to bed, I pray to god to wake up dead. >> >> As morning comes, I always get scared, because another day must be beared. >> >> People say to look above, but all I get is abused and shoved. >> >> Life took a young man with hopes and dreams, and reduced him to nothing as >> so it seems. >> >> I try as I may to still be a man, during the bowell routines and all the >> hell that quad life demands. >> >> Everyones forgotten who I was , and treat me like shit ........just because. >> >> I started strong in this game, but when I think.......who is to blame? >> >> Was I just another victim of circumstance or from the beginning did I have >> no chance? >> >> As the years go by it means less and less because I am still human >> nevertheless. >> >> >> >> >> >> Ron
