Janice, TM came to live at our house one year prior to my 40th reunion....a girl in my sis's class, whose brother was in my class, and my sis came for the weekend.......they went to all three day's events with me and when I tired they knew the signs and quietly took me home.
I still live in town where I went to high school so many of the local kids knew I'd been paralyzed so there wasn't too much explaining I had to do, course I had my 'fore mentioned guard dogs who did lots of explaining, if I was asked....... Since that time I've joined the group of locals who did planning for our 45th and 50th, then after our 50th we started meeting at Hideaway Pizza, owned by classmate, for pizza and beer one Thursday each month. We even have members who live 300-500 miles from here that come for pizza........secret is: if you're not there, you're fodder for discussion!! As we begin to 'lose' members, we are seated en masse at the services then pro- vide meals for the family and classmates. I don't worry about being accepted........those who come and don't know what's with me just ask and I tell them enough that they're sorry they asked, and then they don't ask again and warn others not to ask......it works every time.. I assume you realize that our class was +/- 150 members, so we've known most every classmate and that makes returning for reunion especial.....and naturally we look for signs of aging, weight issues, balding or gray, etc....That's normal! So I'm saying, Go!! Have Fun!! Don't sweat those who don't understand, you know you're okay and that's all that counts!! !!!!!!! TIAD !!!!!!!!!! janh Stillwater, OK --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Janice <[email protected]> wrote: I have another question for you all that want to answer: I will be having another class reunion shortly and graduating from the hometown high school, I was usually one of about 15 that helped to plan it. We had around 500 in our graduating class. Anyway, I am debating whether or not to be a part of the planning or even attending the reunion. This is the first reunion since I got clobbered with TM. I still have to use a cane and would maybe need my wheelchair. I was fairly well known and I am afraid I would be answering questions all nite about TM. My question is: Would you let TM keep you from attending a reunion? Be honest. If you were faced with this decision this weekend, what would you do? Janice
