Re: [QUAD-L] Quality of Life and SCI ~~ Huh?

[Stacy Harim]

I miss the things I used to do like snow skiing.  I also live at the ocean so I miss that in a big way.  I also waited tables and had time off in the winter to go skiing and visited my Mom in Florida for a month or so in the winters.  Since, I haven't traveled and went 4 years without seeing her.  Neither of us had the money and her health isn't that great.  She's moving in with me now.  Anyhow aside from that, like lil quad, I wouldn't have gotten one degree and work towards my bachelor's because I got caught up in what I was doing before.  I don't regret that either though because if it wasn’t for one of my customers, I wouldn't even be alive today.   No one wanted me because I didn't have insurance.  I went to the two local hospitals here that couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. Philly would have taken me but the medivac wanted 5 grand up front that no one had.  One of my customers overheard my co workers talking about me being in the hospital and it so happened that he lived next door to one of the heads of neurology at John's Hopkins and look at me now.  5 years later and living on my own.  Aside from the sore my life is good.  Pre sore, I was going to school.  I've only since started driving after the sore so I don't know total freedom yet as far as driving to school and all of that but I am able to count on myself to go anywhere.  The sore will heal  since this one isn't the same sore but the incision opened so I have faith it will year and wont be a year long problem again (I pray).  I will get back to school and finish my degree and get back to work, off of the system, get my Mom back on her feet and out on her own again and life will be great if my future goes the way I would like.   Stacy ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:14 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Quality of Life and SCI ~~ Huh? Hi All,     On and off I participate in studies regarding my SCI. Often I'm asked something like "...how would you rate your quality of life since your SCI"? This question gets SO deep under my skin, I could scream.   How do you all feel about your quality of life since your injury?      Bobbie