Well I have been kind of quiet lately because the Game Room hooked me up and I’ve developed a small addiction to gaming
Elindil’s Heir: I drive with head motion, although when I first started n the computer I used mouth motion to operate that.
Elbows: I wasn’t always sunny, still have blue periods, but not often. I tend to read 2-3 books at a time. Right now it’s King’s Under the Dome and Ford County by Grisham. Basically EVERY book in our Library. Non-fiction I tend to read not listen to.
Equipoise: I did that bit before I actually saw him on the show. I’m kind of sorry I did the show because it looked faked. ABC never put me in touch with him. But all the Locked In people I know, although they can think and mentally can respond at normal speed, physicalally they can’t respond that quickly.
Xash: Tend to lurk more than post but I’m definitely a Doper!
I’m late to the party but I can’t stand idly by while you’re forced to watch inferior sporting products. Both the Phillies and Eagles’ stadiums are very new, as you probably know, and I can say for certain that there is fantastic seating at Citizens Bank Park that’s very accessible in terms of parking lot to seat. Since the football season is over you’re probably more interested in the Phillies anyway.
If you ever get tired of what passes for a baseball team up there (can’t remember the names of the teams they’ve got), I should be able to get in touch with some people in the Phillies organization and get you more specific answers to what exactly you need to know, if you like. Maybe the transportation issues won’t be as severe as they sound, but you’d know better than I do obviously. Feel free to let me know if there’s anything I can check into for you. Or if you just want a ride, only you have to swear allegiance first if that’s how you want to play it.
An itch is a bitch. You get used to focusing your mind off it though. Anyway it’s no way as bad as not being able to swat a bug away, especially if you’ve had a life-long phobia about them.
I was over at my sister’s place the other day for my brother’s birthday party. My brother-in-law has ALS and is now in a chair and it’s slowing his speech. They have already given him his speech system, and I was looking at it while he led me through the system interface. Luckily the support tech gave him the password, so it could be put on his Wi-Fi. He isn’t using it just yet, as the eye tracker hasn’t been delivered and fitted yet, or the mount for his chair.
The ironic part is that he lost his insurance when he lost his job, so he’s on Medicare which is what has supplied him with this wheelchair and $17,000 speech system. But damn it, he’s still opposed to “socialized medicine”!
I think you should start demanding he pay you back your share of the speech system. Granted, that’s only about 0.005591 cents, assuming we’re counting every person in the U.S. and not just taxpayers, but still. Socialized medicine is socialized medicine! He wouldn’t want to set us down this terrifying slippery slope.
Ok, Blinkie, no spoilers on Under The Dome, I’ve got about 100 pages left.
I had a “concern” visit from DFCS today and I have to say, rereading this thread makes me feel better on a day when I didn’t think I could.
It is a better day when you realize that there are people out there like you, that have gone through hell and come out of it with class, humor and aplomb.
If you run out of books to read, May I recommend Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files? Or you could take a tangent down the dystopian road, that subject alone has kept me in reading material for about 2 years.
