So am I, ever since I became a Quad some people and especially other Quads and Paras live their lives like it surrounds them and lives like there is nothing else is possible but a cure. They couldn't understand how I went on with my life as nothing had changed. It helped that my friends and family accepted me as I was and didn't dance around me like there was something wrong with me. I have been a Quad for 39 years and I am living a very happy life. I married my high school sweetheart in 1986, we graduated in 1982. We had a son in 1997. We are very Blessed.
<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 11:53 AM Eric Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > I hear you. I often think - is it not enough that I'm quadriplegic and on > a ventilator? I've always thought the paralysis is cake compared to > everything that comes with it? They save our lives and say "good luck with > all that" as we leave the hospital. lol > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 5:01 PM Lori Michaelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Am I the only one who is sick and tired of all the secondary >> complications that come with quadriplegia? >> >> Pretty much a no brainer but, after almost 41 years and multiple >> secondary complications from posttraumatic syringomyelia and the onset of >> UTIs after a couple of hospitals ending up putting bacteria >> (multi-drug-resistant) and my urine that keeps coming back. >> >> Along with seeing my father, my mother, my grandparents and my husband >> die too very young. So I am just pretty much on my own now for the first >> time in my life starting in January 2016. >> >> -- >> “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind >> and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” >> ― Dean Koontz >> >
