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From: Adrienne.Barhydt@f778.n115.z1.fidonet.org (Adrienne Barhydt)
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> I do lots of things in time and energy saving ways that have 
>become habit for me and I just cringe when I see someone making  
>5 or 6 trips when they could do it in only 2. 
 
I am envious and amazed when I see that.  I find that I'm losing 
the knowledge of what's hard and what's easy for able-bodied 
people.  My husband has started doing most of the cooking in the 
last few weeks and he dashes around the kitchen after a full day's 
work and fixes things in 15 or 20 minutes that were taking me an 
hour and a half or more and it's hard for me to believe it's 
possible even though I used to be able to do it too.  And at the 
same time it's hard for me to believe that it takes me an hour and 
a half.  It's very unreal at times.  Like I can't believe either 
the old reality or the new.
 
This extends to asking people to do things for me.  I know how hard 
it is for me to do so I think I'm asking for some huge favor when 
it's just a trivial nothing.  I guess more realistically my fear is 
how many trivial nothings can I ask for before I've asked for too 
much.   
 

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