>--> Quoting Tom TO John 04-09-96  20:30
 TM> Tom..
 TM> Ye ol' Mod'r't'r
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Hello!
Don't know how long my access board has been carrying this echo as
it had been a couple of years since I tagged echos on the board. Anyway
I found this echo and for the most part it seems to be DEAD. *SIGH*
Anyway it nice to know who the ol' Mod'r't'r is. I think I may have
sent you a message on the InterNet a long time ago when I was
searching for some information on Post_Polio but I'm not sure what
the last name was. Anyway it was a Tom. And since I was visiting a
friend I didn't get the address posted into my address book.
 TM> OUR WC5 BBS: HTTP://spacecon.ids.net or TELNET/FTP spacecon.ids.net!
I see I'll have to give in to my addiction and surf the net some
more.  Can't think of a better way to spend the weekend can you!
Anyway to get back on subject before I'm chastised for being off
topic here. I'm a survivor of Polio. I'm not sure when I first came
down with Polio as my dad said I was an infant (he was however for
most of my life never around) and my grandfather said that I was old
enough that I had to learn to walk all over again. My guess is that
since '53' and '54' I was living in a Children's Home that I most
likely got Polio then as I do have some vague memories of physical
therapy during that time and of wearing the hated brace.
I was really having problems with pain and weakness a couple of
years ago but I did two things that really helped me. The first one
I don't recommend doing however . The first thing that helped
a lot was kicking my husband of many years out of my life and
divorcing him and although money is tight and there is the stress of
being a single parent there is not the constant stress and deprivation
of sleep (as my ex thought I was being lazy and couldn't realize that I
really did need a lot of sleep) While still married I had to take
large doses of pain reliever and soak in a warm tub of water
every night just to try to get relief from incredible pain. I still
do have an ocassional night of pain but nothing like before.
The second thing I did I don't really recommend doing either and
that was I quit my job where I was standing on a concrete sidewalk
for an hour at a time while I crossed school children in all kinds
of weather. And where I live it is not unusual to get temperatures
in the teens F or lower. I'm still outside for an hour a day as I do
recess duty but I'm not standing in one place for any length of time
and if it gets below 15 degrees F recess is inside. And in rain and
other bad weather recess is inside. I must admit that walking
through the snow on the playground was difficult for me this last
winter though. I'm going to try to work things out so that my
schedule is only one or two 15 minute recesses next year as the hour
long recess is at times hard on me even though the pain and weakness
seems to be shortlived afterwards.
Anyway as quiet as it has been in here I'm probably just talking to
myself. Guess as long as I don't start arguing with myself I'll be
all right ;-) though.
                             Beth :-)
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