SORE

These falls are beginning to take a toll on this old body. I am very sore today, Sunday, after falling several times on Friday.

I hope Dr. Condit, Malinda and Jim are following my blog and are pleased as well.

I just lost my footing upon getting out of bed on Friday morning and sort of fell all the way from there several times to the living room.

Aunt Paula

Feeling Blue

I don't know if that is a pun or not. I awoke this morning to a very blue/purple/yellow ugly left eyelid where I fell on Friday morning. I am also not so sure if I might have cracked my elbow in one of my falls.

Of course, it is just the 6th day of the month and I am broke already. I am sure I am not the only person in that boat. I have this bad habit of giving everything away and not keeping enough for myself. I know this subject really doesn't apply to this blog, but people like myself and the elderly trying to live on the low income from the government is really difficult. I know I paid taxes for some 35+ years and they don't pay much ROI.

I hope to wake in the morning with a better attitude.

Paula

Seating Clinic

On December 4, 2008, I attended a Seating Clinic. For those of you unfamiliar with the term Seating Clinic, that is where you are evaluated for a wheelchair. I met and talked with the nicest doctor, Dr. Condit, who was very honest with me. He suggested I start this blog. I told him that I have basically become a hermit in the last thee years because it is too much trouble to get around in stores in a wheelchair and/or my walker. It is a pet peeve with me because, I have as much a right to go shopping as anyone else. The stores are overstocked with merchandise so you can't get around without stumbling and falling over something. People stare at you like you have leprosy or something. Come on now, we are all made up of basicaaly the same matter. People will also run over you like they don't see you.

There are suppose to be Federal Laws for the protection of the handicap, my thoughts are no one is ever fined for breaking the law, so why would they obey it. Don't let the tag on your vehicle be one day late or there penalties out the wasoo, if that is a word. I cannot drive or I would personally go to stores and write them up for the laws they are breaking. Due to my age and Dr, Condit and I agreeing about my mucles atrophying without use, we decided on a manual wheelchair.

I have trigeminal neuralgia, aka "the suicide decease", and there are not any treatments I haven't tried. The MVD left me partially paralyzed on the left side due to a stroke suffered during surgery. One brain surgery turned into four. Don't get me wrong, I would probably do it over again. The pain from this disease is extremely intense. The medication that helps with my pain, is causing me to fall alot. I had about 10 falls this morning when getting up. It is very frustrating. My living space will not allow the room for a motorized wheelchair.

Won't you join me in letting the coporate headquarters of these retail stores know about the laws they are breaking?

Paula