MsMcDucket

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  Living With Limitations

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  just curious how some have handled living with disabilities.

  what do you do when you can no longer do what you want?

  how do you learn to focus on the things you have left and not what you must leave behind?.

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  But I got out today and rode the buses and despite all the snow piled up, in some places 3-4 stories high and burying entire trees, I know spring is coming and I will be getting out more.

  As long as you've got some fight in you, I think you'll keep plugging on. Hopefully, things will get brighter and something will uplift your spirits! Be it nature or science. I'm fighting *the funk* too; and antidepressants make me more anxious! It seems that increased anxiety is the side effect that I experience the most. I can't stand feeling like my heart is going to jump out my chest. So, we both have our problems with various medications. It is a challenge finding a good balance.

  You deserve to be happy! You're a good person!

  I know that was soppy!

  Hang in there. Spring is coming!
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  Living With Limitations

  by choosing life in

  1. jw
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  just curious how some have handled living with disabilities.

  what do you do when you can no longer do what you want?

  how do you learn to focus on the things you have left and not what you must leave behind?.

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  Try dating a person with a pelvic fracture, or a wound dehiscence, or a fresh amputation, or cancer with bone metastasis, or Lou Gehrig's disease....I could go on for days.

  I remember trying to put a bed pan under a patient with a pelvic cancer. It was one of the most heart-wrenching things that I ever had to do, getting the woman with the double mastectomy up , changing the bag on a new colostomy patient, the patient with pancreatic cancer...

  It's heartbreaking.

  When I had Shingles, I ate my pain meds! Forget the water!

  Some disabilities aren't physically painful; but they can be emotionally painful.

  I'm just rattling off. I guess, I do miss working!
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  Price of gas is a beeotch!!!!

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  who wants to go anywhere or buy luxuries with these prices!

  you got to keep your house warm!.

  pricestationareatimethanksdillons wichita - southsun.

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  America is going to have to wake up and see how wasteful we really are. The SUV craze kicked our ass. People see that now. When I see a "soccor mom" fill up her tank, I silently chuckle while I fill up my Saturn on about $30.00. I can drive about 450 miles on a tank of gas.

  How many trips back in forth would it take you to get 8 kids to soccer practice (with equipment), or how many football players could fit in that Saturn, or how many basketball players over 6 ft could ride comfortably in the Saturn? How many women/men would have to get out and drive their children to school if "soccer mom" didn't do it?

  Things that make you go "hmmmm"???
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  I see Dead People...

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  and other famous movie lines....what's yours...

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  Redrum, redrum, redrum, redrum, redrum..."All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!" "Here's Johnnie!"
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  Living With Limitations

  by choosing life in

  1. jw
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  just curious how some have handled living with disabilities.

  what do you do when you can no longer do what you want?

  how do you learn to focus on the things you have left and not what you must leave behind?.

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  One thing I learned in Nursing is that people can be very different when it comes to pain. For us, pain is "the fifth vital sign". We can be sued for judging people and withholding pain medications. The first thing they do when we're hired is to have a pain specialist come in and give us a lecture. We are not to judge people's pain, withhold pain meds because of our beliefs, make sure you call the doctor if the patient is not getting good pain control, and so on and so forth.

  If you had a drug addict that was in a car accident and broke both his legs, do you think he has pain or deserves less pain medication for being an addict?

  We, also, had to take the course "Philosophy of Ethics" and "Nursing Ethics".

  That's all I got to say about that!
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  I see Dead People...

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  and other famous movie lines....what's yours...

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  From "King Rat" the movie; The book by James Clavell

  At one point Marlowe sits down with some British officers who invite him to play a game of cards. Marlowe is scheduled to have his arm amputated because of gangrene. In the conversation that ensues, the chaplain inadvertently mentions “having faith” in reference to the card play. Marlowe unleashes a bitter tirade against the vicar aimed at the Lord God Himself. Marlowe spits, “Faith! Don’t give me that old line of bull! What can God do about anything?” The chaplain replies quietly, “He can heal.” Marlowe continues to spew venom: “Well, it’s a good job He’s done in here . . . men dying of dysentery and blindness. . . . He couldn’t be bothered. Do you know what I think? I think God is a vicious, sadistic maniac! You can take your God and your precious faith. They’re both a stinking joke!” The officers remain silent. I suppose they feel ill-equipped to defend the Almighty in such circumstances. It is evident that the best that Marlowe can hope for is the speedy amputation of his arm in a matter of hours.

  But then, a miracle of sorts does occur; a miracle engineered by an unlikely source, the conniving and calculating Corporal King. For motives that are surely mixed in with a healthy dose of self-interest, King makes a move and buys the drugs necessary to cure Marlowe’s infected arm. Corporal King is a rather small, squished up deity to be sure, but he is the only one that Peter Marlowe has. And he gets the job done. Marlowe lives on with his arm intact.

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  Living With Limitations

  by choosing life in

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  just curious how some have handled living with disabilities.

  what do you do when you can no longer do what you want?

  how do you learn to focus on the things you have left and not what you must leave behind?.

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  My husband refused to use a wheelchair for years and years! He ended up with bursitis in his shoulders, and carpal tunnel in his hands and wrists, and more. "Pride goeth before a fall." (Literally!)
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  I'm a dad again!! How do you ladies do it...

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  just had my third child - still in the dazed, lack of proper sleep and food phase.

  i have to say - credit to my wife and all you mothers out there, how the hell do you go through it!?

  i had that numb, helpless, car crash look as she went through the wringer and all i could do was pass the gas and air and mumble - 'you're doing really good.

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  Gumballs, I had twins but they didn't weight that much. One was 6lbs 4 ozs and the other was 5lbs 14 ozs. It's all that extra water and the two placentas that take up the space! Oh and me get bigger than a wagon!
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  I'm a dad again!! How do you ladies do it...

  by Qcmbr in

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  just had my third child - still in the dazed, lack of proper sleep and food phase.

  i have to say - credit to my wife and all you mothers out there, how the hell do you go through it!?

  i had that numb, helpless, car crash look as she went through the wringer and all i could do was pass the gas and air and mumble - 'you're doing really good.

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  Qcmber, does your hospital do web babies? You know the pictures of new babies on line; so that people can see the babies? I don't know if that's too personal or not. Sometimes, they put the parents real names and faces!
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  I'm a dad again!! How do you ladies do it...

  by Qcmbr in

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  just had my third child - still in the dazed, lack of proper sleep and food phase.

  i have to say - credit to my wife and all you mothers out there, how the hell do you go through it!?

  i had that numb, helpless, car crash look as she went through the wringer and all i could do was pass the gas and air and mumble - 'you're doing really good.

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  Congratulations! That is a big baby girl. I had one that weighed 10lbs 6 ozs and she got so fat that she didn't have room to turn; so I had to have a c-section. The doctor said that I wouldn't have been able to deliver her *normally* anyway. Man! Your wife is tough!

  Give her extra loving care and give her a hug for me! Good job!