Oh My!!!
Jacquei
folder I made to read any posts, I now find nothing has come through
to that folder....
Ach... I've been looking to start sharing with you all. I believe I
need to reset the rules to get things posted there. typical of me to
get it wrong...
Anyway, I'll start now.. LOL
I went to my Heart Clinic yesterday,who monitor the mess in my chest
and anything nearby. After doing this for a year or so, they inform
me I'm a mess health wise.... Not a very happy me.
I know you don't want to hear all this stuff any more than I want to
tell it..
Today is a beautiful day here in Oakville, sun's out, it's warm
outside 50 F... Just had a new furnace installed, ( nothing to do with
me really just a upgrade to everyone here in this building ) ( I
expect them to up the rent soon, that doesn't affect me much as I have
RGI housing.)
A little about me. I'm 58 soon to be 59, single,(divorced really) I
have 1 daughter grown, Rhyannon 27 she is and Brayden 7 yr old
grandson. I play games on-line at Pogo mostly, stopping me from
sitting in front of the boob tube as much. 'course I would rather have
a lap-top and do both.. giggle...
I definitely can't write like you folk.. just note my feelings and
concerns in no nonsense language, some of my rambling might get
offensive not at people mostly at the situation..
With my stroke I lost all communications, couldn't speak, write... It
was hell for a talkative one like me, so I apologise ahead of time.
Talk later
Jacquei/Annie/huggzz1
Juliette
you, but I'm glad to see that you are a fighter and can see the bright
side of life. Don't worry about telling us what happens to you, we are
here to read and listen to each other, it's just the anger of the
other group and the fights that don't resonate with any of us. Nice to
meet you! Do you know? I have a son that works in Reptilia and they
went to the Santa Claus Parade this last weekend to Oakville, did you
have the opportunity to see it? he told me that there were tons of
people!
I also have a granddaughter and she is just one month old but she is
so beautiful! it's nice to have grandchildren because you don't have
to be a parent and you can spoil them rotten jejeje...I'm just waiting
for her to grow up a bit because right now she eats and sleeps mostly,
so I can't have fun yet :).
I don't have too much time to speak right now but just wanted to say
hello! I will come in another opportunity to talk some more. Glad that
you came back!
Michael Feir
there. Sounds like both of you have a lot more medically to wrestle with
than I do. I've heard and read about how nasty those strokes can be. That
must have been rough indeed. I've always figured that if I ever lost my
voice, I'd have my talking computer's synthetic speech talk for me. That
presumes nothing happpens to my hands. I can type around 90 words per minute
but I don't think I could learn to do that with my toes. Other than
blindness, I'm normally quite healthy. I'm somewhat overweight but food is
one of the few pleasures I can aford and access. Also, there's not as much
activity in my life as I'd like. Friends who are close enough to learn to
get to and who have time and inclination to do things with me are hard to
find. Solitude is by far my biggest current problem. At long last, I have
RGI housing and can call Mississauga my permanent place of residence. I'm
slowly starting to get familiar with my area and learn to walk places.
Yesterday, I had an orientation and mobility lesson with my instructor from
the CNIB and learned how to get to a place called the Dam where I hope to
volunteer soon. A student was there who is volunteering there so I had a
chance to go inside and learn the basic layout of the place. It wouldn't
take too long before I was comfortable moving around to various areas in
there. A couple of cessions of volunteering there would do that.
Don't worrry about sharing the hardships in your lives. I think we ought to
feel free to do that so long as we can also share the positive things.
People have to learn to see us as whole people who have elements of positive
and negative in our lives. Unfortunately, looking at ODSP Fireside, they'd
see mainly the negative. That's what disturbs me so much about them. I
wouldn't want to see them disappear because they certainly serve a
legitimate need. There just didn't seem anywhere for those of us who try to
get on with enjoying our lives to gather. I've sent the flyer I posted to
the group a while ago out to my church for inclusion in their bulletin or
newslettre. Hopefully, we'll get some more group members from that.
I've begun the process of Christmas shopping last week. My father and I went
to the Dollar Store and found some interesting gifts for my two adoreable
little neaces Ava and Amia. They're pretty young now so I'm finding it
harder to find interesting gifts for them. I look forward to when they're a
little older when I'll have somewhat more to work with interest-wise. Last
Christmas, I got them a talking globe from the Discovery store online.
They're still a bit young for that though although Ava's starting to learn a
little from it now. Amia has her third birthday this week. It looks like
we're celebrating that on thursday. When she gets really happy, she laughs
in a totally unrestrained way that just melts your heart. I haven't heard
that laugh since I pushed her on the swings in a park earlier in the Autumn
but I hope to hear it on thursday. My latest order of groceries arrived this
morning so I'm nicely stocked up at the moment. That always feels good when
one's fridge and cupboards are reasonably full. I'm trying a different kind
of Swep's ginger ale with rasberry and green tea mixed in. A very strange
but pleasant taste as it turns out. I went out this morning to empty my
recycling bag and found it to be somewhat chilly. Perhaps, the sun doesn't
get into the building's courtyard as much. We use recycling bags and I
always wonder what's more economical. The bins I remember from when I was
married and lived in Oakville never seemed to break or anything. I presume
I'm doing the right thing by putting ripped recycling bags in the recycling
dumpster and that they get re-used, but wasn't that also true for the bins?
I guess they know that they're doing.
Michael Feir
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Jacquei
Do we have to have all these links every time we reply or such... I
find it vaguely annoying. I find I delete quite a bit when replying to
a post anywhere!
I think I've recovered from the stroke quite nicely. I have aphasia
and sometimes it just drives me nuts... Aphasia is when I can't find
the word I want, or anything close, so then I stutter and give up with
a shrug and a sour face.... Thanks to my parents for teaching me a
huge vocabulary so I can use other words with the similar meaning.
That doesn't mean I can spell them all mind! Sometimes that even
isn't enough...
Most people wouldn't know I had the stroke now.. No usage lost or
uncooperative muscles etc. I was very lucky...
Now if all the other 'new' problems would go away, I'd be one happy
camper..
I'll try to find a picture to show you all.. hard to do when I don't
take many.. but....
Funny thing this google groups,, shows you spelling mistakes and
unknown words but not how to fix 'em...
Aaaccca about presents!! I don't know what to get anyone, my dad
doesn't need anything ( or he goes out and buys it right before I do),
my daughter is 27 and I don't know what she needs, my grandson is
nearly 7... same goes there,, not a clue do I have...! Still I expect
to get enough to satisfy all. Dad says he's giving money which I
don't enjoy, I would rather have some little thing home-made.. He has
done that a lot, making me things.. but his health has gone to the
dogs since my Mum passed. He can't do much just now..
Anyway my mouth is getting away from me..
I'm unable at this point to get these posts to my inbox but I will
figure that out too..
Lots of hugs and kisses,,
Jacquei
Michael Feir
Trafalgar Road. It wasn't RGI housing so money was very tight. I don't think
we could have managed without support from our families. In the end, that
was one of the extreme pressures which wrecked the marriage for us. We were
mismatched in other ways also so I couldn't say for certain that the
marriage would have survived had we gotten into affordable housing.
Someone just asked me at church today whether I'd want sight if I could have
it. On the whole, I'd have to say no. Other than being able to drive and
navigate to places, I would much rather that people would take advantage of
my gifts and less judgemental personality that being blind has strengthened
in me. That wouldn't even require a miracle. It was a soup sunday in church
today so I had some amazing chile. Now, I'm sitting in front of my desktop
PC listenning to the Mosen Explosion on
www.mushroomfm.com
I hope everyone's having a good Sunday afternoon.