Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!105!41.15!Adrienne.Barhydt From: Adrienne.Barhydt@p15.f41.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Adrienne Barhydt) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Overload Message-ID: <17333@bunker.UUCP> Date: 31 Jan 91 21:44:35 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Adrienne.Barhydt@p15.f41.n105.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/41.15 - Busker's Boneyard, Portland OR Lines: 55 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 13319 On Tue, Jan 08 Pandora Nigh (1:157/3) wrote the following to Adrienne Barhydt: PN>things of our disabilities. What will keep you going a bit more PN>level is to remind yourself you've coped before and you will do PN>it again. It gets realy frustrating having a varing condition or PN>progressive one, but you do learn to bounce back emotionally with PN>those also. In fact I've found that as I keep getting PN>progresively worse it is taking less time for me to adapt and PN>adjust, think it gets to be practice. if practice makes perfect, i should be perfect or better by now. emotionally i seem to be operating on a more even keel. i still don't have my paratransit id so i feel like all the practical stuff is on hold which is kind of frustrating. The other thing that helps PN>abit is that I start planning way in advance of things and know PN>and start getting ready for modifications and such before the PN>need becomes critical. Hang in there, you'll feel better soon. i have kind of a balancing act to do with the future. it is pretty devastating to look at where i will be in the future if things continue the same way, so i'm getting better and better at living in the present. on the other hand, there are things for the future that would be better to set up before they are necessary. i don't know though, living my life day to day takes all the energy i can dredge up. i think i'll just live in the present. PN>One of the things that you may find more of a help is to trade in PN>the tricart for a regular power chair. The reason I say this is PN>because a lot of the paratransit systems can't handle tricarts PN>and this will open up more means of transit for you. our paratransit does allow tricarts. if i find out that they have more vehicles that handle a regular chair, then that will be something to consider. And do get PN>that evaluation done for hand controls, worring about driving and PN>the loss of the ability adds to the stress of driving. If the PT PN>thinks that you can handle handcontrols that should relieve some PN>of the worry for you and the stress. that's on hold for now. i'm not sure if i have the energy to pursue it. Breath deep and lot and I'll PN>pray and cross my fingers for you. PN> Pandora thanks! adrienne -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!105!41.15!Adrienne.Barhydt Internet: Adrienne.Barhydt@p15.f41.n105.z1.fidonet.org