Re: [TMIC] 6th anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread frank
I miss most being able to using my hands easily I also have problems with my fingers and hands. The diagnosis is loss of Proprioception. Most of us get some loss, others get a lot. It has decreased my speed on the computer, made walking on gravel or the lawn difficult, and causes me to fall

Re: [TMIC] 6th anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread Akua
Thanks, but fortunately, my hands still work well -- play the sax, crochet, sketch, flutter tickle the cat... I was responding to someone else's concern. Akua I miss most being able to using my hands easily I also have problems with my fingers and hands. The diagnosis is loss of

[TMIC] 18 year Anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread Cindy McLeroy
I woke up this morning knowing there was something I should remember about the day. Didn't remember what until I looked at the TMIC emails about 6 yr anniversary. It was 18 years today that TM entered my life, but like so many, I was out of town on a business trip to New Orleans. I live in

Re: [TMIC] 18 year Anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread rn11...@yahoo.com
Cindy,    What a great attitude;an inspiration to me and the others on the list. Cheryl --- On Fri, 10/8/10, Cindy McLeroy cindymcle...@socal.rr.com wrote: From: Cindy McLeroy cindymcle...@socal.rr.com Subject: [TMIC] 18 year Anniversary To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Date: Friday, October 8,

Re: [TMIC] 6th anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread frank
Have you seen any study of arthritis being worsened by Myelitis? I know of no connection between degenerative arthritis and myelitis. Rheumatoid Arthritis is an auto-immune disease, so there could be a connection, positive or negative, with myelitis. F

[TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread rn11...@yahoo.com
Hi,    I got my new placard in the mail today. They are reissued every 5 yrs. At one time,you had to sign a paper that you were still disabled and return it to the DMV,and a few weeks later you got the placard. Now they're just mailed,without knowing if you are even alive.  Cheryl in

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread ACAROE
Parking is my biggest gripe. I use an accessible van and need to get out using the ramp on the passenger side. 3 times this month someone was parked on the stripes adjacent to the parking spot. One time I called the police and he didn't even know how to write a ticket and for what

Re: [TMIC] 18 year Anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread Jan Hargrove
Congratlations on your anniversary..might sound morbid, but had you not had tm, nor had I, we'd never have met or shared our lives with one another!! Hugs, jan   From: Cindy McLeroy cindymcle...@socal.rr.com To: tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Fri, October 8,

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread Janice Nichols
Since I got TM, my husband and I have noticed people who should not, parking in handicap parking. We have also noticed that some restaurants, theaters, etc., make us travel a lot more from the handicap parking to the front doors. I think you have to be where you need the parking before

[TMIC] 2 year Anniversary

2010-10-08 Thread Jeron Rampersad
Hey guys, haven't been around lately, but I've read every single post over the last few months though. I just realised that a lot of us celebrate our TM anniversary this month. For me it is 2 years. In that short time I realised what I have become and how much I still have to live for. I am a

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread Barbara Alma
It is appalling! I think in California, if you have a valid driver's license they will continue to mail you a disabled placard. Unless you notify DMV that you no longer need it, it's all automatic! Hugs, Barbara A in Auburn CA -Original Message- From: Janice Nichols

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread Akua
Mine is every two years. And i have to fill out a form. Still wish I had a handicapped parking sign in front of my house, so I could board paratransit. A drag to look a a block full of single family homes, see a car in front of mine, blocking bit of concrete that interrupts the grass (maybe

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread Akua
I think the Reeves Foundation has a card you can stick in the windshields of offenders. I had found another one online. Once i could not get off the sidewalk at work because the only way off from the building was blocked by someone's car this was a graded striped walkspace--not even a

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread kimharrison325
Yes the Reeve foudiation does have a few... keep them with me use them a lot! and have had the police called on ME for standing up to someone that parked in the spot for just a few minutes touse the phone... in the mean time I have to circle the pakling lot over and over looking for a van

Re: [TMIC] handicapped placard

2010-10-08 Thread Barbara Alma
*The police have been montioring the parking and if caught with grandma's (or anyone else's) card not only does of offender get a ticket of close to $400 but grandma loses the card. High price to pay, but abusers still don't learn. That's the way it should be. We see people running into the