Just a great job Jim. Thanks for everything....Cody in Austin, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Lubin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; tmic-list@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [TMIC] 19 year TM Anniversary
At 10:02 AM 5/18/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As most others, when I was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis, I had not heard of it . If it weren't for this access to others with TM I would surely feel like the "Lone Ranger" in a negative way. When I came home from the hospital in 1990 and got back online, I searched all the online services I was on (GEnie, Compuserve, Delphi) for any information on Transverse Myelitis. I didn't find anything. When I first got Internet access in 1991 using a friends university account, I found a few message from people asking questions about it. I later got on Prodigy and AOL. In 1994 I put together my "disAbility Resources and Information" web site gathering whatever information I came across. I started emailing one person with TM. He thought it would be neat to have a "Transverse Myelitis Internet Club" so we could communicate with others. When my internet service (eskimo.com) made email list group an option I started one for quadriplegic and one for vent-users. I started the tmic-list a few months later and sent a message to the 10 or so people I had come across who had mentioned or asked about transverse myelitis. That's how this list started. In 1997 I offered to make a web site for the Transverse Myelitis Association. We still didn't have much information at that time but at least we had a way people could find us. In 1998 I was picked by New Mobility magazine to be their "Person of the Year". That was mostly because of the emails they received from people on the tmic-list. You are an inspiration and a rebuke to me, one of the "walking wounded" who still tends to complain of the fatigue, banding, etc. when I have not have the misfortune of paralysis. You no doubt have had to work hard to function as you do. Actually, I have not had to work at all. The only things I can do for myself is operate my wheelchair and my computer. Before I'm put into my wheelchair, I'm just lying in bed. I can't even turn my head, so there is nothing I can work at. Once my mom or nurse put me in my wheelchair I sit in front of my computer all day. ---- Jim Lubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://makoa.org/jim disAbility Resources: http://www.makoa.org