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Yeah a big fat wallet never hurts Houston no matter if your in a chair or not.
Mark
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Date: Saturday, February 12, 2005 7:55:21 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Pushing in rain//// SNOW :( :( :(
Before my injury I was quite a stud. I married a young lady nine years younger than myself who could have been a model and was quite devoted and committed to our relationship. We accumulated and rented three homes in Gary and built a four flat in the Chicago area. While on vacation driving to Cincinnati Ohio to a bowling tournament we were in an auto accident and the marriage went downhill immediately. She told me that I could no longer take care of her like I used to and she had to move on.
Now I still get to talk to the ladies when I go out and I get the kisses in the hugs but unselect that is more in a sympathetic or empathetic mode that I can detect. Many of them always asked for my phone number and address, but there are very few calls and visits are negligible. And even the phone conversation is more about how am I doing and how I feel but hardly ever can I come over and spent some time with you, go out to a movie or dinner or just chill together. Many think I have a little money saved up and they end up telling me their problems and what they need. I believe that once they see the chair figure they can do better. I have friends at the rehab who had nice settlements for their injuries (paras or incl quads who resemble para) have no big problems datings. They even drive their own cars.
T A Houston
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 2:39 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] Pushing in rain//// SNOW :( :( :(
Tony,
I know that you have a lot of rain down there. I can�t remember if you answered this or not. How do you manage 2 push your chair when it�s raining? I can�t get anywhere when the tires get wet. Oh and I�ve never even tried pushing in snow. I see the paras pushin thru it with no problems. Are there any quads that push there chairs thru snow? With or without quad-pegs? Do they have any quad pegs that don�t look like they do? I guess I�m kinda want 2 be fashionable and practical. I push fine without quad pegs until I get 2 in climate weather.
On 2/7/05 10:02 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a message dated 2/7/2005 9:00:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a theory about sexuality and spinal cord injuries. I believe that the lower the injury level or higher the function a the site is the SCI individuals the more attractive women or men will be to that person. Though I hold no grudge against paraplegics or low level quadriplegics, I think it is so much easier to introduce yourself to women and break the ice as well as develop a relationship when that person is not confronted with a bulky electric chair etc.. I might be wrong and I hope I am but does it not just seems paraplegics have it so much easier. Not only from personal observation but in advice columns I read, magazines and even on the covers of disability magazines, all I see or read about his couples who are paraplegics or low level quadriplegics/higher functioning.
I never read about quadriplegics with very little function either through their neck or upper arms getting the girl.
What do you think? Please prove me wrong
Dillon
Dillon....i think ur theory is right GENERALLY, but not always. People are drawn for all different motives...some not so good!! I'm c5c6, but look like a para...push chair, no side arms, can push fairly well, so these things do help me, but i think when a girl gets the idea i'm much more disabled in my hands than she thinks it can really blow it...but i have had many girls sexually post injury, most get over the chair quick, but u might be right, it's not as cumbersome as power chair...i mean, they can usually sit on my lap facing me, one leg on each side of me...i put my arms around the small of their waist.
I've thought a lot about power vs pushchair, and i know it would knock a hole in my attractiveness if i were in power. Still, being attractive isn't everything...i'm still a quad that gets his heart broken ocassionly...broke a few in my time too, so what comes around goes round.
-tony c5c6 24 yrs post car vs tree
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