Text 361, 92 rader
Skriven 2006-07-08 11:12:09 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
    Kommentar till text 360 av Daryl Stout (172.survivor)
Ärende: Book Review: After Disabi
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Hi, Daryl!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  Any kind of adversity is on topic....  :-)

DS>  Got to keep the moderators happy. :)


           Ah, well... it's not always easy to be sure what is appropriate when
one is posting in an echo for the first time.  But I've seen some messages from
you in other echoes, and AFAIK you haven't disgraced yourself yet... [chuckle].



AH>  You learn to live with your limitations....  :-)

DS>  There are several blind ham radio operators in central Arkansas,
DS>  and one night...one of them did a "blind joke net" on one of the
DS>  repeaters. Everyone was laughing their faces off!! :>


           Uh-huh.  We just attended an adapted kaying session where there were
two people with only 2 1/2 legs between them & a dog with only three legs.  The
humans found this so amusing they asked us to photograph them together....  :-)



DS>  Both the wife and I have Sleep Apnea, and we have
DS>  CPAP machines.


           Glad to hear it... about the CPAP machines, that is!  Some people we
know say they have sleep apnea but can't be bothered to *do* anything about it,
or give up on these machines after a few days because they say it's too hard to
get used to them.  I was concerned that you might be putting off getting one in
view of your present financial situation....  :-)



DS>  While we were one building over and 2 doors down, it has
DS>  been a nightmare.  It may be sometime in August before
DS>  we get everything organized. It took 2 weeks to find out
DS>  diabetes testing items (the wife is diabetic, and tests
DS>  4 times a day...I test once a week, as I'm over 45)...
DS>  and I am not sure where all our CPAP stuff is.


           Blechh!  I hate moving.  I'm still trying to find two pairs of socks
which went missing after a holiday last July.  Oh, and when we moved in here we
moved on New Year's Eve.  That's one way to find out who your real friends are.
Just for a giggle Dallas asked one of our neighbours... a gal I'd grown up with
... if she would help, to which her response was "Are you kidding??"  (I wasn't
going to ask because I knew she'd spend the day fussing over makeup & whatnot.)
While we were settling down to an informal dinner with the folks who had helped
us she phoned to ask if she could borrow a few slices of bread.  Dallas replied
"Sure... come and get it!  BTW, do you know where we are?"  She didn't remember
we'd moved three miles away.  And before we could eat I had to find the cutlery
another neighbour packed for us.  She'd emptied the kitchen drawers into a box,
starting with the top drawer... i.e. where the cutlery was... then labelled the
box "light bulbs, matches, miscellaneous dribs & drabs" because that's what she
had found in the bottom drawer.  We figured it out eventually, though....  :-))



DS>  Excuse the ignorance, but what is PTSD??


           Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (or Syndrome).  It's not uncommon for
war vets to experience flashbacks just as you did.  The same thing also happens
to folks who have been sexually abused during childhood... as I discovered when
several of them mistook this echo for another with a similar name, then decided
to stick around anyway.  I experienced something like it, although perhaps to a
lesser degree, some time after our daughter had been diagnosed with leukemia...
and I know of at least one other parent of a kid with leukemia who did too.  It
seems to me that people do whatever needs to be done in an emergency, and while
they may put their feelings on hold temporarily the emotional impact must still
be dealt with.  From what I've since learned about such situations I understand
that it's normal (& probably healthy in the long run) to be hypersensitive when
one is in danger or is "processing" a life-threatening experience of some sort.
I don't see it as an illness, but as nature's way of restoring balance....  :-)



DS>  Thanks for the feedback...I'll keep everyone posted.


           You're most welcome!  Hope to hear from you again....  :-)




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