MS humor - A friend asks me ,Have you learned any new tricks with your crutches? - Personal

UPDATE AUGUST 5,2001
Again many people are wondering if there is something wrong with me besides
just MS.I'm too happy with life so says many. I was all too proud of my new
AFOs (short leg braces)Mine are made of carbon fibers and cool,both in nonaccumulation
of heat,for us Floridians,but also cool in it's looks.
I had for 9 years the old plastic AFOs and they did what they were designed to do
but they were too hot.
I went on a campaign to get something worth of me and definately cool.
The orthotist still wanted me to have plastic,but when I insisted on being cool
he came up with either the traditional caliper style or the carbon fiber style which was
new. many thought I pay too much attention to such things .But your equipment is what
makes you happy.Crutches too should be pleasing and non clicking.
You can still look good with these pieces of equipment.Are crutches beautiful?
Probably if you think it long enough.RET

Update June 10,2001 A friend asks "Have you learned any new tricks on crutches"?
"Just what did you have in mind?"I asked.I cauld stick them out in the aisle and trip the wattress .We were in a restaurant. No nothing like that he says.
Then what about if I wave them in the air to attract the waitress?
No I have seen you carry big leads with them.It's that sort of trick I ment.
Wait until we get out of here and I'll show you a new trick.
What are you going to do? You just wait and see.
After we had finished eating .Paid the bill and we left.I rushed out and opened the
door for him,beat him to the car with a quick swing through,and then he said,
You embarrased me by doing all that" Well you asked for it.Then I said don't ask again for tricks. Had he not been a long life friend we both would have been mad at each other
but we have enough give and take neither of us are embarrised really at any thing any
more. This is what a good friendship between an able bodied and a crip should be like.

^C
UPDATE May6,2001
Can you picture a motorcycle with a side car.The woman in the side car has
a wheelchair attached on the rear. I saw this set up last week.I went to our
motorcycle event in our Town. It was funny that we still have more fun than most
people think a wheelchair user should.Try it sometime

Dec 7,2000----- A friend was showing me a photo album
It had pictures back about 15 years. Since we both live
in the same mobile home park whe have similar activies.
I was in two of the pictures . One of the pictures shows me
in the community gardens at my plot of 30 by 30 feet.
Then I was a crutches user. The picture reminded us
of the time the corporation hired a advertizing company
to showcase the park. They hired a photographer
to shoot pictures of many of our activies. I was in the
community gardens at the time. The photographer's assistant
was grouping us together half circled about a wheelbarrow
I had naturally my crutches. She had the nerve to suggest
I prop myself up with a hoe or some garden tool,so there
wouldn't be and unhappy people inthe picture.One of my
friends spoke up, Does he look unhappy? Another answered ,
"I don't think so" The assistant backed down and the shot was
made. It also appeared in the advertizing movie.RET

MS humor Oct.22,2000---- While leading my scooter with the Bruno
lift into the rear of my van I'm frequently asked if I need any help.
But a couple days ago some one came over to me in the parking lot
after it was all done and asked" Can I do any thing to help you"
I had to laught as I saw them coming a long way off and know they
had watched the whole process.Now the door was shut and the job was
done ,they offer help. It just got to my funny center.You wonder
what these people are thinking. Years ago I might have had an acid
comment, but any more I roll with the punches and laught a lot.

MS humor Sept.3,2000 Over heard concerning me and what they thought of
me.
"He is a new defination of uglyness, With the plastic legbraces, crutches
and those thick glasses he really is ugly"While they didn't know I heard them
I did. But I choose to make no comment as they were I believe uglyer than me.
Why?Because they have no happyness in their own lives and have to get their
laughts for some of us in the crip world. I'm really glad I could amuse them.
RET

MS HUMOR

Having MS is like learning a new game, except every time you think you have
figured out how to play, someone changes the rules.

You might have MS if.....You can't look up without falling down
You might have MS if.....The phrase "shop till you drop" becomes a reality
after only one store
You might have MS if.....You think you are too young to need a cane, then learn
the phrase "Pride goeth before the fall" the hard way

Eileen (Lobosgirl)

WHY ARE WE UNHAPPY?
Many a person is unhappy with MS
Do you know any who are happy with it?
No! we have no friends with MS that
wouldn't exchange it in a flash.
But change it for what? Another disease?

I think not.But change for the way we were.
But time is never reversed,and as we are
now , we will also never be.
Gladly we will trade tomorrow for today.

Yes I would even trade last month for
now you say.But we are all on a river of
no return and no refund, and no stops.
Why is today so bad? You thought yesterday
was bad but now you would trade for it.

I trade for nothing in the past as I
also trade for no future time. Enjoy
the present for that may be all you
have.As the song says, The best of
times is NOW. by R. E. TANNER 8-2000

Eileen Lukeman and Richard Tanner

FL.

Eileen(Lobosgirl) and Richard (RET1000) both at aol.com

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