Hello Jude!! It's so good to hear from you - we have missed you and are always concerned when we don't hear from you. You've always been such an inspiration to all of us here in the group. Looking forward to seeing your posts once again. Welcome back.
hugs, Linda -- Original Message ----- From: Jude Hoops<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 1:10 AM Subject: [TMIC] Hello Group, This is Judy Hoops (Jude) and it has been quite a while since I have written to the site. No reason why, except that maybe I needed a break from all of the talk of the “blusey” side of the disease. I try to maintain a positive attitude, but since the death of my best TM friend, Pam Montz, I needed a long break before I could once more become an active participant of the group like I used to be. For new members, I have had TM for somewhat more than eight years, can’t recall due to memory dysfunction, and other related symptoms of TM, for one being a difficulty in typing, where I used to be a whiz...maybe just a matter of continuing to do it on a regular basis. I am paralyzed from T3 (breast level with the use of my arms, Thank God.) I have horrible continuous pain from T3 on the Spinal Column to the tips of my toes. I am not able to walk, use a wheelchair to get around and spend a lot of time in bed just because of laziness. We have no children and do not have a large social group and no family to speak of. My husband wanted property so we moved out of our living area where we had resided forever, to a small, and I mean “small” village where we have 5 acres and a nice two story home, which we bought before I became ill. Now, the house makes no sense whatsoever and I am able to use only a small portion of it; my bedroom, which used to be the den, the kitchen/dining area and living room. I have spent so long in my bedroom that I have forgotten what the rest of the house looks like. It’s either that or the memory difficulties which I just two days ago began taking meds to, hopefully, reverse the dysfunction. OK, that’s all I can muster for my first time back. What’s going on with all of my old friends? Let me know. I love you all, Jude Anyway, I make use of the three rooms, but my husband does all of the cooking and eats in my room with me, and he takes care of all of the remaining household chores that I cannot do because of the constant intense pain I experience 24/7. I have pain meds, but hate to take them because they turn me into a “zombie” and it affects most of my “normal” human existence, as it is. Most of you know what I mean, the rest of you will catch on the longer you have TM and continue to read these excerpts.
