I just wanted to make sure ya'll know I'm a feller right?
Larry Throne, MSW
From: natalie mizenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Transverse Myellitis <tmic-list@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [TMIC] Announcement
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:22:53 -0700 (PDT)
Geez, Now I'm really messed-up here. I thought Gunny was a girl. Don't know why, but just thought that. Perhaps we should have gender added to our invitation upon joining the group. Like our 1st emails! HA! Only joking you all know it. Nat, alias at times Gnat (I am not a bug), usually go by Natalie (as in female form) although I'm losing that Female Form every day I am adding to my paralysis! Oh well, so be it. Natalie M. (Oh Natalie M, because there are 2 Natalie's; therefore, clarifying each one.). Take care to all, Natalie M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I have been writing to the List for 5 years now and no one in all that time, until lately, has questioned my gender. I suppose that " Jude" could be taken either way.To help those of you who wonder whether I am male or female...I am woman, hear me roar! My real name is Judy.And, to answer a couple of other questions regarding gender, which I have not answered in the past because I did not think it was my place...Gunny is a man, and Gilly is a woman.I hope I have cleared things up for the newbies without causing trouble between myself and Gunny or Gilly.I am caucasian, 5'8" before TM, blonde, leggy and beautiful...now I am about 30 pounds heavier and 5 years into paralysis which makes me not so beautiful as people said I was before TM.I owned a hair salon "Shear Imagination" and had been a hairstylist/ color technician for too many years to count. At age 50, I went back to college for a degree in psychology, was getting a 4.3 grade average and my English prof of two years was pushing me into becoming a writer and confusing the heck out of me.At any rate, I didn't have to make the decision because TM came along and turned me into a paraplegic from high up under my arms to the tips of my toes. I have no feeling/movement/sensation in any of the affected areas and no bowel or bladder.That ought to cover just about all of the pertinent information that people might want to know. Oh, I have a foley catheter that has made my life lots easier than before. Anything else you want to know will have to be said in private email space as this is wasting time on the List.Sorry "bout that,Judy"Our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great Glory that will last forever"
2 Corinthians 4:17
NLT
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