the nerve damage that TM cause me makes it so i cant touch my legs or wear pants or sleep under a cover without causing more pain that what they are in.
________________________________ From: pat cooley <[email protected]> To: Akua <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [TMIC] Neurology Now on TM One thing I have discovered that with TM we all are so different as to how TM affects us. I could cross my legs but I would have to help them get there with my hand. However, it would not be comfortable to keep them that way for more than a minute. Rucker is lucky that he can do so with comfor. Patti - Wisconsin On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Akua <[email protected]> wrote: Neurology Now ( free sub) has an article on TM in its Oct/Nov 2011 issue focusing on Allen Rucker. >Kevin Sorbo is on the cover. > >I was glad to see the coverage! > >I was surprised at the picture of Rucker. I've told my friends who send me >vids about a "tell" , that I use to assess whether the person is in the same >state as I am: crossed legs. I can't move my legs, I am paralyzed, I tell >them. So when tehy asks why or whether I can do such and such I point out to >them that the guy who just got out the car from his wheel chair crossed his >legs at the ankle, for example. > >My legs splay, flop and gap and my feet don't always stay on the foot rests. >Which makes for danger if i don't notice, as more than once, I've rolled on >with an ankle stuck in a doorway. > >So it was a bit disconcerting to see this guy with his legs crossed, thigh >over thigh, like a walker, posed in his wheelchair. That's a thousand percent >more motion and control than I have. > >-- > >
