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  • Re: Dr. Dan has been under the weather

    Dan, &nbsp; I second that comment.&nbsp; Rest, relax and take care of yourself. &nbsp;I hear that 20 minutes of focused breathing can do wonders. &nbsp;Plus maybe it will help your lungs too. &nbsp; Get well soon.&nbsp; We miss you! &nbsp;
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on November 17, 2009
  • Re: Text Me, Email Me, FaceBook Me

    I agree too that our technology is a great way to keep in touch. I have a big family too, but 95% of them live within a 20 minute radius of me. Sometimes I even run into them at the grocery store. However, as for my immediate family (brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews and parents) there are a couple of things I don't want to find out about on ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on November 16, 2009
  • Re: 2009 Holiday Gift Guide for People in Wheelchairs

    My kids want to get my husband this game called Mindflex by Mattel. Apparently you move a ball through some sort of configurable maze with the power of your mind. It looks like some minimal arm or hand function may be needed. But I guess your mind is the key to this game.
    Posted to Life (Forum) by Trish-411 on November 13, 2009
  • Text Me, Email Me, FaceBook Me

    Iโ€™m starting to wonder if technology is replacing normal human interaction. I had an interesting experience this week. On Wednesday night at 11:30 p.m., I get a text message from my sister. Of course Iโ€™m not asleep yet, so I read it. It says โ€œYou better look at Allieโ€™s Facebook.โ€ Allie is our niece. Iโ€™m not really a die hard FBer more a ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on November 13, 2009
  • Re: Mental Illness...Here take this assessment!

    Letting go of thoughts sounds like exactly what I need. Iโ€™ll have to trust you on the neural pathways part. But 20 minutes is seriously a very long time. Iโ€™m not sure when it actually happened, but I can no longer just sit quietly and still for 20 minutes. Anytime I sit down, at about the 5 minute mark I start going over all the things that ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on November 9, 2009
  • Re: Olga Kleinertz

    Hi Judy, Welcome, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. This must be so terribly difficult for all of you. That is something about SCI. It not only changes the person with the injury but also the entire family. I know there are many of us here that can relate to what you are saying. The system is a very unkind place, and I often feel there
    Posted to Tell us about yourself (Forum) by Trish-411 on October 25, 2009
  • Re: Mental Illness...Here take this assessment!

    No Dan, none of this is very clear to me. That must be my problem. Itโ€™s true, Iโ€™m missing a lot of my life because I am merely trying to jump from one task to the next so that everything gets done and nobody struggles. That's my current mechanism I think. The comments on your Philly blog were pretty enlightening. Merely sitting in one place ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on October 23, 2009
  • Re: Mental Illness...Here take this assessment!

    Dan, Your advice sounds like just what I need, but why is it so hard to find that place where you are less afraid of your own fears? When some of the worst case scenarios seem to always come true in your life, it is difficult to quiet your mind and not be afraid of what it is telling you. Several years ago this guy I knew from work asked me to ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on October 17, 2009
  • Re: Mental Illness...Here take this assessment!

    Dan, Thanks for your comments. They have left me unable to form an intelligent response. Iโ€™m sure I could come up with something in the bogus category, but Iโ€™ll try to skip that for now. I mostly just go back and forth wondering if I should have some genuine concern for myself or more likely my response is what does it really matter. Iโ€™m not ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on October 10, 2009
  • Mental Illness...Here take this assessment!

    Dan, What do you think about those self-assessment mental health surveys? Iโ€™m not talking about the stuff on Facebook but stuff from more legitimate sources like a mental health website, a brochure that you might find in your doctorโ€™s office or maybe one passed out from your wellness center at work. Do you see any value in these types of tools?
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on October 1, 2009
  • Re: Us vs. Them

    Thank you both for your kind words of support and caring. Hopefully by this time next week I'll have it all behind me and be nearly recovered.
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on October 1, 2009
  • Re: Us vs. Them

    I agree with nearly everything you guys are saying and your thoughts are on the mark. I have great difficulty releasing my grasp on his care. Itโ€™s not only his care but many other things around here too. Just the other day he (and his nurse) decided that they would stop by the bank machine. Right off the bat I felt slightly bad because this is ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 25, 2009
  • Re: Watch I Believe TV

    professirx: Thanks for sharing all of this. I had no idea about I Believe TV. Sorry about your mojo, but it looks like you still got it goin on to me. Keep it up! Well not literally...oh, you know what I mean.
    Posted to I Believe TV (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 25, 2009
  • Re: Us vs. Them

    I wish it was over, but itโ€™s not scheduled until the first week of Oct.; that is if I donโ€™t chicken out or something else comes up. I have no idea what would happen if I got seriously ill. I pray it doesnโ€™t happen, and I will myself well every day to keep it from happening. I always have this feeling that everything would fall apart if I was ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 20, 2009
  • Re: Caregiving

    Peace214, Welcome to the site. Iโ€™m sure that Dr. Dan can offer you some advice on the feelings between you, your significant other and his mother. The only advice Iโ€™ll offer is to be very careful when it comes to finances especially since you are not legally married. The only way to really do this right and keep yourself out of possible ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 16, 2009
  • Re: Us vs. Them

    Youโ€™re right, this isnโ€™t about counseling. I think itโ€™s about a lot of things. Best I can figure this upcoming surgery is only highlighting what is always there. It is hard to put into words โ€œwhat is always thereโ€, but I think itโ€™s the feeling of being like my husbandโ€™s mother instead of his wife. This is my opinion from my experience and ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 14, 2009
  • Re: Us vs. Them

    Dan, First let me say thanks for your compassionate words. You are very kind and understanding. Second let me tell you how I currently feel about marriage counseling for a caregiving spouse and a high level quad or I guess I mean me and my husband. I realize this is going to be like convincing a priest not to pray or maybe better said convincing
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 9, 2009
  • Us vs. Them

    Warning: Caregiving rant about to be served up. I was really distressed this week reading a dialog on another disability site and then when my husband seemed to support the same mentality. YIKES! The dialog was started by a wife and mother of 2 whose husband suffered a C5-C6 SCI 9 months ago. She posted in a caregiving forum stating that she
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on September 7, 2009
  • Re: What fosters emotional growth and what prevents it

    Oh and another thing. Too bad about your Eagles and Vick. The Indianapolis Colts have that nice Manning boy who added his name to our local children's hospital. No forgiveness required in our city. The season starts soon...guess we will see what everyone is made of.
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 28, 2009
  • Re: What fosters emotional growth and what prevents it

    Forgiveness is a concept that is hard to grasp in my world. I guess I want it to be a magical instant when you say the wordโ€ฆI forgive youโ€ฆand poof everything miraculously changes. For me, forgiveness is not like that at all. Instead of some one time act, I think of it more as a process; a process that starts with a decision to let go. I think ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 28, 2009
  • Re: What fosters emotional growth and what prevents it

    Frankly I donโ€™t know how much insight I have right now into this discussion due to the present chaos that is surrounding my life, but this topic brought to mind an interesting experience I had last week. &nbsp; I had been over at my parentโ€™s house on Friday with my kids and my niece.&nbsp; They were swimming and my mom and I were kibitzing (as my
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 13, 2009
  • Re: A New Kind of Therapy

    Oh Dan, you might be wrong on this one&nbsp; I really feel out of my mind; like Iโ€™m drowning and every time Iโ€™m about to surface for air I get pushed back down. &nbsp; Good newsโ€ฆ.yes we can get a new bed covered 100%.&nbsp; Bad news, they wonโ€™t touch the old bedโ€ฆagainst company policy.&nbsp; You could have guessed that one was coming.&nbsp; So my
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 11, 2009
  • Re: A New Kind of Therapy

    Bed update:&nbsp; Here is the choice as best I can discern:&nbsp; We pay out of pocket for the repair even though my husband has Medicare and secondary insurance through his previous employer, or we order a new bed that will likely be covered 100%. &nbsp;What do you do?&nbsp; We donโ€™t really want a new bed, but that seems to be the only option to ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 6, 2009
  • Re: A New Kind of Therapy

    OK the latest is that we canโ€™t get approval for the repair. &nbsp;The bed was purchased by his private insurance which is now secondary to Medicare. &nbsp;According to the DME supplier, Medicare wonโ€™t pay for repairs unless they purchased the equipment. &nbsp; On an intellectual level this doesn't seem possible. &nbsp;So if you get anything when ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 4, 2009
  • Re: A New Kind of Therapy

    In case you wanted a visual, here it is.&nbsp; Apparently according to my husband&nbsp;this is a step above a car jack...who knew.&nbsp; You use this after you have jacked up the car to provide more stabalization.&nbsp; Just what I need, more stabalization.&nbsp; I wanted to post a picture of the massive bruise I got on my arm from trying to place ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 3, 2009
  • A New Kind of Therapy

    Dan, &nbsp; I think I have discovered a new form of therapy.&nbsp; After my week of trying to manage an unmanageable health care system, I thought I needed something.&nbsp; &nbsp; We have a broken hospital bed currently being held up by a car jack awaiting repairโ€ฆwho knows how long that will take.&nbsp; We have a denied medication for the ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on August 3, 2009
  • Re: Questions for Dr. Dan - Puzzle Pieces

    The way I can relate to this concept of post traumatic growth is through my first marriage.&nbsp; I married when I was 25.&nbsp; A year after our marriage, my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer.&nbsp; After several surgeries and 2 different rounds of chemotherapy, he died 9 months after his diagnosis.&nbsp; I sat in a hospital room for 48 ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on July 23, 2009
  • Re: ...maybe better than assistive technology...consider complementary abilities!

    Hi Mike, &nbsp; Have you thought about contacting the Shepherd Center in Atlanta?&nbsp; It is one of the model SCI rehab centers in the country and treats many SCI patients.&nbsp; Perhaps you could find a match there. &nbsp; I see where this could be a win/win situation with the right person.&nbsp; It is something I had never thought of, but it
    Posted to Assistive Technology (Forum) by Trish-411 on July 19, 2009
  • Re: Broken Wheelchair Chargers = Panic Attack

    RBF: Thanks for your comments.&nbsp; I thought your insight about caregivers was very interesting.&nbsp; Over the years I have noticed a couple of types of caregivers.&nbsp; Some are able and willing to be directed, but others donโ€™t like it at all.&nbsp; I have seen that the later group seems to like to care for babies, kids, and individuals that ...
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on July 19, 2009
  • Re: Broken Wheelchair Chargers = Panic Attack

    Here is the answer to your question.&nbsp; Yes, I am willing to change. &nbsp;I never intended or wanted my self worth to be linked to some vigilantly-like management of my husbandโ€™s SCI. &nbsp;In the beginning this role just happened out of necessity.&nbsp; Our relationship before SCI wasnโ€™t like this at all. &nbsp; &nbsp; From the moment of the
    Posted to On Healing (Forum) by Trish-411 on July 16, 2009
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