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From: Charlotte.Ferris@f5.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Charlotte Ferris)
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Subject: Greetings!
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Date: 21 Sep 90 15:09:09 GMT
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        Hello, echo people....I'm another new one here and would like to get 
acquainted. I'm just shy of 41, live in Austin, TX, married for years but 
recently divorced (make that 5 years---pardon my typo, I haven't mastered 
the editor yet). My disability is post-polio, and yes, I have been 
experiencing problems with post-polio syndrome since about 1985 or possibly 
a little earlier. July 4th of last year I caught pneumonia and was hospital- 
ized for 9 weeks. I was trached and on a ventilator for 8 months but weaned 
myself off of the blasted machine in spite of my doctor's continuing 
attempts to discourage me. (Twenty years ago I might not have been so hard- 
headed!). Had to drop out of a grad program due to my illness and slow re- 
cuperation, so you could say I'm kind of casting about now, seeking my next 
direction....I've been computing for a little over two years and love every 
minute of it.....can't wait till they get the N.Y. Times on-line, and on my 
Christmas wish list is a CD-ROM player complete with the OED on optical 
disk! Is that too much to ask? haha.
        Anyway, I'd like to talk to everybody, and I'm especially interested 
in getting discussions going around the various issues related to post- 
polio and the "syndrome"....
        Comments? Questions? Curses? Blessings? Witty epigrams? 
 

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