Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Alan.Hess From: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Alan Hess) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: thanks Message-ID: <16091@bunker.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 90 17:00:08 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:261/1000 - Nerve Center, Pikesville MD Lines: 44 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 12176 [This is from the Spinal Injury Conference] In a message of Allen Marker (1:105/14@fidonet) writes to All: AM:>I want to thank the people who responded to my message and i am AM:>touched by the fact that you all gave me your time to try to give me That's why we're here - we're the complaint department, as well as the complaint receiving department. Glad to be of service. AM:>some advice. I would like to keep in touch and hope that maybe you all AM:>can help me deal with this as i have no family and it has been hard. I AM:>cant explain how i feel to the limited amount of people i know because AM:>i have never been one who could express my feelings openly. The only How have they reacted to your situation? If you're like most of us, some of your friends "couldn't take it", and disappeared, while your true friends stuck with you. You'd think those that left had mangled themselves - if we can take it, why can't they? The real friends stay around and do strange things with your pee jugs (mine's been emptied in more places than I care to remember - including the middle of Light Street in Baltimore on a New Year's eve in a traffic jam). They also tend to drop your food when they try to feed you! :-) AM:>reason i'm trying to do it now is because i dont have to look someone AM:>in the face and worry about crying. I am a very strong willed person AM:>and do not like showing my hurt in public. This board has given me the AM:>chance to talk with other people who i normally could not face and i AM:>hope it will benifit me a great deal. thank you all again and please AM:>feel free to converse with me some more. bye Most of us don't show our true feelings in public all the time. I have plenty of depressed times, but I cover them up so as to be decent company (when it's really bad, I stay home). As they say "big boys don't cry", which makes life difficult at times. Keep your chin up, and we're here when you need us. *adh* -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!261!1000!Alan.Hess Internet: Alan.Hess@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com