Re: Blue Placards (Handicap)

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- I agree exercise is important. But when walking a couple

hundred yards puts you in so much pain that you cannot function for

a few days - something's gotta give.

After all the treatments and therapy I've had, I am still unable to

stand upright. This put strain on my upper back - and I then

herniated a disk there - which hurts now all the time in addition to

my lower back problems. My upper back cannot be fixed surgically

since it requires a thoracotomy (opening up the chest complete with

rib snippers) - so I will have to suffer with this pain probably the

rest of my life - despite the fact that my disk is pressing on my

spinal cord. Now I'm having severe neck problems because of my

increasingly poor posture and next it will probably be a neck disk

that goes (if it hasn't already). My posture continues to get worse

because I'm trying to avoid pain - and in doing so - I'm waking out

the alignment of my spine.

I still try to get out and about - but most days just walking the

length of a supermarket is about all I can take. If you add to that

the distance in the parking lot - I'm in absolute agony by the time I

get home.

So now what do I do? I say " no way - I cannot walk that far " . And

so I don't walk at all. I honestly think that if I had the

handicapped parking, I'd probably go out more and walk more but in

littler amounts.

Again, I'm hoping the surgery corrects the pain in my spine and I can

get back to a regular exercise regimen. Exercise is very important

for controlling fibro - no doubt about it. But when walking 100

yards leaves you in agony - its not helping, its hurting.

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> > Man my dox REFUSE to give me that blue placard.

> > You'd think I was

> > asking them to do something illegal. I haven't

> > asked again recently.

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[Guest guest]

I didn't mean that you shouldn't get one. I was just

saying I don't think that I can get one. And that none

of us should be worried about what other people think.

If anyone of us didn't need it, we wouldn't get it.

But as you said, when it hurts that much we DO need

it. And if healthy " whistleblowers " don't like that,

than tough. Cause it isn't their desicion. It is

between us and our doctors.

You just said it better than I did;-)

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> - I agree exercise is important. But when

> walking a couple

> hundred yards puts you in so much pain that you

> cannot function for

> a few days - something's gotta give.

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Trouble is produced by those who produce little else.

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[Guest guest]

Hi again everyone,

I've finally caught up with all the e-mail I missed during our computer

crashes. Wow... I'm beat just from reading it all... hehehehe. I want

to reply to this one, especially. I may be 46 today, but I applied for

my handicapped card for the truck over 10 years ago. The first time I

asked my doctor, she didn't think it was needed. I got the old... the

exercise will do you good speech. A month later, I went to the

licensing place and asked to the application. I then took it to my

doctor, handed it to her and told... I need you to fill this out for me

because if you don't, I'll be back asking for a lot more pain medication

and I'll need more time off work because of the pain.

This all happened well before the fibro hit me after the truck accident

in 1998. Then the Fibro hit... eeeeek. I don't use the handicapped

parking on good days as I hate to take the spot away from others that

need it on my good days. But if my knee hurts, or the Fibro is bloom...

I'll take the spot and not think twice about it. Those spots are there

to help us. Don't be embarrassed to use it or to ask for the card. If

you need it,.... use it. We have enough pain in our lives that we

shouldn't allow pride or anything else deter us from doing what we need

to do.

Yes... exercise helps us... but it can also make a bad flare much

worse. I know if my arthritic knee is in flare, I better not be walking

much with it, or what would be a few days rest... could easily become a

3 month full flare and the bed rest will be tenfold. If you need the

card, get it... and just use it wisely. I'd be lost without mine. I

take it with me when we travel, even if it's to another country. It's

in my purse, and I won't think twice about putting it in the window if I

need to.

Ok.. ok.. I'm running off on a tangent... sowwie... not meaning to... I

just don't want anyone to suffer unnecessarily.

loving and gentle hugs,

Norah

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Tarvin wrote:

>My friends keep pushing me to ask my doc about them

>(since I have the severe osteo-arthritis and the

>asthma) but I don't think I could get one. Especially

>since all my docs agree that I should be

>exercising....

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