Re: [TMIC]

2009-06-15 Thread Heyjude48458
You know, it's funny (odd), but Dave and I were separated at the time I got hit with TM. I was openly dating and in fact, was visiting a friend in Ohio when it happened. I lived in Ohio for a year before I couldn't stand it any more and begged Dave to let me come home. He finally

RE: [TMIC] Managing in winter

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Pall
You just walk vey carefullyyou where good boots or rubber soles and if needed you use a cane. My legs actually feel better in the winterit is the summer humidity that is the worst! Rob in New Jersey From: jharpe...@aol.com [mailto:jharpe...@aol.com]

Re: [TMIC] Managing in winter

2009-06-15 Thread lynne myers
For me the only issues I have with winter is an increase in pain,  the heat makes my spasms much worse than cold.  I have never lived any where other than snowy Michigan so I think coping with the ice and snow have just become normal.  I just wear rubber soled tennis shoes and keep going.  As

Re: [TMIC] Relationships

2009-06-15 Thread LadyNotes
Kevin, I also believe in Karma and also tried to live my life according to the golden rule. Which makes me wonder, if I did something so bad to someone, that I would end up in this situation. If I made any mistakes that warrant this, I would remember. It's hard to say that people reap

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread JHarper33
I was wondering this, too. I got an invite but no information and anything I clicked on just took me back to the same invitation. The TMIC is plenty for me and the forum (_http://www.myelitis.org/forum/_ (http://www.myelitis.org/forum/) ) is there for people who want more. The forum is kind of

RE: [TMIC] Depends and Poise

2009-06-15 Thread Patricia Cooley
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RE: [TMIC]

2009-06-15 Thread Patricia Cooley
HEY SWEETIE: DON'T BLAME YOURSELF. IF WE ALL LOOK BACK, WE HAVE ALL DONE THINGS TO HURT OUR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. THE MAIN THING IS WE REPENT AND TRY TO MAKE AMENDS TO OUR LOVE ONES. YOU KNOW DAVE LOVES YOU OR HE WON'T BE THERE FOR YOU AT THIS TIME. I THINK ALL OUR INTIMATE MOMENTS ARE

[TMIC] Janice's questions..

2009-06-15 Thread LadyOwl1961
Janice.. My name is Kathy Blaschko and I am 48 as of March 19th. I have been on and off this list since I found it in 2001 (I think). I was 27 (1988) when I first started with the symptoms of TM and was not diagnosed properly till I was 34 (1995). During that time they kept telling me I was in

[TMIC] RE: tmic-digest Digest V2009 #532

2009-06-15 Thread marieke dufresne
Hi all, The Transverse Myelitis Network has nothing to do with the TMA or TMA Forums. It was started by anotehr member here who wanted a site where we could exchange comments/photos/messages/info in a more face-to-face way and there is also a Chat where you can talk to others members who are

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread Grace M.
*The Transverse Myelitis Network is another great way for patients to communicate and compare notes. Many of the TMIC members participate there. Our own Marieke is one of the administrators. I advocate for NMO, and work with Sandy Siegel and the TMA crew, and I also have my own site, of

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread Deborah Nord Capen
I have to respectfully add to Grace's comment below. She is absolutely correct when she states that the groups are formed to spread awareness of TM, ADEM, NMO and the other neuroimmunologic disorders. The TMA was not formed to hold a monopoly on support groups. It was formed as a non-profit

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread JHarper33
I agree, Debbie, the more support groups that help more people, the more the word gets out, the better. No quibbling here at all. I just didn't want the people who start new support groups to get offended if they invite people from the TMIC and we decline. It's nothing personal, it's just

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread Jim Lubin
Well, it was answered before I was even out of bed. :-) The only thing I have to add is that if anyone has an awareness group let me know and I can add it to the page at http://www.myelitis.org/support.htm At 09:22 AM 6/15/2009, Deborah Nord Capen wrote: I have to respectfully add to Grace's

Re: [TMIC] Relationships

2009-06-15 Thread Lawrence King
I believe karma is strictly an interpersonal thing and that there are many factors in the world which are driven by the nature of our universe. Good and bad things happen with out regard to who it affects. Karma had nothing to do with the plague, the 2004 tsunami, the 1918 flu pandemic,

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread Parkerswebe
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[TMIC] read receipts?

2009-06-15 Thread LadyOwl1961
I have a question for you all and I would really appreciate an answer. I would like to know why people send an email into the list with a Read Receipt attached. For some reason I cannot explain, this really bothers me and makes me feel Violated. I would really like to know what they do with

Re: [TMIC] read receipts?

2009-06-15 Thread JHarper33
I've never noticed that, Kathy. Maybe it's just one of those automatic things from some e-mail servers? I think if anything it's just a way of making sure you got and saw it and that it didn't get lost in cyberspace. Does it appear along the bottom of e-mails? That's where ads usually are

Re: [TMIC] read receipts?

2009-06-15 Thread Grace M.
*It's just a feature of mail programs that notifies the sender that their mail has been received and opened. I only use it for business correspondence. * *Grace* * *

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread LadyNotes
I am also a member of the paraplegic/quadriplegic website that Jim has started. Although I have TM, which left me a quadriplegic, I identify more with the members of the paraplegic quadriplegic site then with the members of the TM site. Naomi C-4 Quadriplegic, since July 2, 2005 Due to

Re: [TMIC] read receipts?

2009-06-15 Thread Alle111
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Re: [TMIC]

2009-06-15 Thread bradebi
I would be more like you in temperatures but were I live there isn't many places with airconditioners...so I have noticed that after 3 o'clock in the afternoon I get hotbut I also have hot flashes at any time too.and I can just be on the computer just like right now and be sweating up a

Re: [TMIC] Depends and Poise

2009-06-15 Thread bradebi
I get my incontinent pads from a company called Shield Healthcare..and they deliver my diapers right to my door...I have have Medi-cal here in California pays for it...ask your doctor to call in the prescription..and that's it. Debi From: jharpe...@aol.com Date: 6/14/2009 8:34:43 PM To:

Re: [TMIC] Managing in winter

2009-06-15 Thread bradebi
I have these rubber kleets that pull onto your snow boots they have metal spikes on the bottom..they are very good and well made...I haven't even got close to slipping with them. Also my wheel chair is all terrain I am really impressed with it..I can go threw dirt grass and snow...deep sand

Re: [TMIC] Managing in winter

2009-06-15 Thread Akua
It was easier when i was rehabbing in the city... someone shoveled the front of the building and the LiftLine, the paratransit pulled up near the entrance. Now home in the small town, I paid tons to get my walkways shoveled, but often the area i need to land and go down-- my ramps and extra

[TMIC] Accessibility

2009-06-15 Thread Akua
When i was in Rochester, I live in a HUD-assisted building and wrote, called and complained that the front doors were not button doors, were heavy, required a key and a push. Think HUD would adhere to the ADA? The courtyard facing doors had a push bar, which would have made life easier

Re: [TMIC] Accessibility Relationships

2009-06-15 Thread Parkerswebe
Add to the list of complaints: Have you noticed that at many hotels, the ADA rooms are furthest from the elevators? And yes, you are lucky if they have ADA rooms on the first floor. Also, the rooms often face the parking lot and seldom the garden, pool or view? Is this discrimination?

Re: [TMIC]

2009-06-15 Thread kimr1999
OK, I am with you there!!! Getting ready to turn 50 in two weeks.! now everynight sitting with AC on, ceiling fan going and two room fans blowing on me and just sweating bricks!! so now trying to figure out does it have something to do with TM or menopause -- Original message

Re: [TMIC] Transverse Myelitis Network

2009-06-15 Thread kimr1999
AMEN! -- Original message from Jim Lubin jlu...@eskimo.com: -- Well, it was answered before I was even out of bed. :-)The only thing I have to add is that if anyone has an awareness group let me know and I can add it to the page at

Re: [TMIC] Managing in winter

2009-06-15 Thread Akua
I wish my wheelchair would go over grass, so i could go in my yard... what kind of wheelchair do you have? I have these rubber kleets that pull onto your snow boots they have metal spikes on the bottom..they are very good and well made...I haven't even got close to slipping with them.