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You may be a little quick on the buttons and hitting the wrong button making everything disappear. If you notice two strokenet message boards on line with the green START line button, click on the right hand one, that should bring what disappeared back up. :pokerface:

I know so little about computers until I have the will, just can't find the way. Every thing I do is wrong and nothing is ever easy. Even my affected finger quit working. I'm back to one finger on the good hand.

Sandy, I find that article to be very informative in every aspect. The cognitive reappraisal factor in my case is very good. I focus on what's left, like my life, not that I will live for ever, but verses I could have died right then and not been a survivor.

Then with my ability to drive and use a scooter to go shopping, I don't look back at what's lost, but what I got to work with. I may even get employed soon. :scooter:

Phyllis,

You gotta set your computer :type: and your cell phone to remind you with a beep.

You may have to regulate the meds that make you drowsey if your pain level is down. Then sleep/nap when ever you can. A little rest is better than none. Otherwise take a break, your mind need the rest, your body can take it.

The KEY is use it or loose it. The more you do leg, arm, hand, mind the better. Even sitting and doing leg lifts, and arm raises over your head helps. A little tennis ball or rubber ball like to exercise your fingers helps while you are on the keyboard. Or that little putty, different colors they give you in OT rehab.

Keep grasping for the little things you can do, it all helps in the long run.

Okra and Onions, maybe Mustard greens. That's the things my mom used to plant and grow during her lifetime.

Watch out, this could become a great past time for you. Then you will be ready for an orchard of fruit trees. Fig, pears, peaches, and apples.

Florida and California has the best weather for Oranges. :i_did_it!:

Welcome to the Blog community. You have certainly had a full plate.

Congrads on the PH.D. in Aug. Another mile stone for you.

I think you gave so much of your heart and soul during the 19 years until it's very hard to not grieve some when looking back. Make it temporary in time then look forward and how far you have traveled since your stroke as a single person.

There has to be happier times ahead looking at how much you stand to gain in peace of mind and in overcoming the stroke, even returning to work in some capacity at some point.

Head up, chin up, the stars are up and ahead of you is experience from the past.

Gary, I think I did the same thing or something about the same by the name of passport network, live ID site. I tried to type in an email address, but it was rejected cause that person don't have passport.

Is this the same thing you got?

Just watch your Cholesterol levels.

Sandy, I get the feeling this time I will get something, I'm not giving up anymore. It could be for a long way back. I'll see, but how soon?

The plan is no problem, it's the benefits that's slow going. Since 1981, come on, that's too long. I know medical cases and law suits take a long time, but this is reaching record status time just for a determination of pay or no pay.

Ken, that's a good point, we are breathing and alive, maybe not doing great but we are doing what we can for the time being.

Here the kids had Easter egg hunts at church and various Community functions which all had a great turnout with sunny,hot weather,90 deg-f.

I remember Zorro and LashLarue right there with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Milton Berle show, Bob Hope show. In Texas we had live wrestling on Friday nites.

I wonder if one morning you awake and never sleep walk again is possible?? Meaning is there a med for hyperthyroidism? If the Merck drug company could classify it as a disease, they would develop a drug to treat it.

I'm glad everything is coming together for you, hard work does pay off.

Your insurance company will love you if you don't need anymore therapy. I'm waiting on time to pass so I can get more therapy from my insurance.

Wish I could have been there to bowl with you. That's my game and was my business until this stroke. I had to sell my Proshop.

I can't drill holes in balls with one hand. :scooter:

Keep on trucking, you gotta tank full of gas(right attitude)you will go a long way. Stay with the program for the long haul.

I'm stopping at the next station to fill up so I can keep trucking too. My last tank full had a little water mixed in it. I been sputtering along. :Clap-Hands:

Kim, I'm very proud of you.

Outstanding Service, I wish there were many more like you, I'd eat out more often. I have observed the same nasty treatments by some waiters and waitresses at Red Lobster, while others are like you, they cater to their customers and their Tips are well deserved.

Amy,

You are not alone, these days lots of families and people make those arrangements all the time. Plus there are advertisements on TV and in the mail. Especially here in this military town. We have the Veterans Military cemetery just opened up and plots are being paid for up front by Military families.

It's called a planning guide and final arrangements to remove the burden from your family with funeral services options. My wife and I both have that covered along with the house being paid off when either one of us is deceased. It settles all would be disputes which has a way of being a problem in many cases.

Both of us have a grown son and daughter, this way there is no hassle between the four of them over who is in charge of final arrangements. It's not like we don't know that one day we will be gone.

Maybe it is caused by the person, people you are living with. If not, then you just gotta give yourself time to settle in to a routine.

My second wife was like that. We left San Francisco in 1976 for Germany. Her first time away from home and out of the state. She lasted one year and was over ready to go back to California. She left me there. I'm in the Army, so I had no choice but to stay for two more years of my three year tour of duty.

So, Kim you got some thinking to do and decisions to make or you gotta take a chill pill and get pass the home sickness. Some of my inlaws from New Orleans went back to nothing, not wanting to remain in Texas. For some of them it was their very first time out of the city and state.

As time goes on you will get over it. Watch out for the Tornados.

Don't forget to spring forward with the clocks Saturday night or you may be a little late for your Sunday activities and mess up your whole day.

Sue, you got great points there. Like in my case, just two years as a survivor, you got over three times that in caring for a survivor. So you know what you face daily, others are guessing at best based on their experiences. We know that all cases are different in many ways from locations and cultures to the health of survivors and the caregivers.

The other part is comprehension, are we understanding what's written before we add a comment. In my cases, I just try to offer a word of encouragement based on where I came from in my recovery. For me that was scary in the realm of the unknown. Those 3 months I had sleep down stairs in my own house because I couldn't walk or climb stairs added 10 years to my age. Now, I see the world in a different light.

Marty,

Thats our government, they hire these people, give them a desk, pens and the check book. Most of them couldn't tell you their supervisor's name. Once they are there a while, get a couple kickbacks sent to their homes, they are hooked and won't get caught for years to come.

Firing government employees takes an act of congress. Look at the mess FEMA, Red Cross and the military is facing. The Army supply channels were good at paying $30 or more for a screwdriver or $80 for a plain hammer.

The scooter company tried to get my insurance to pay $4,001 for a scooter that cost $1,350. I refused to sign it.

Chalk it up to brain damage and poor eyesight. Hopefully, I'm getting better, little by little.

Anyway watch those racoons, you know they wash everything they eat. They may leave your water running in the sink.