Nah, actually I'm getting grey.  Wow, where did the years go?

Trisha Cummings wrote:
>
> Gee Kyle,
>
> >Criminy!  What am I talking about?  I'm a left-hemi!  Must be the DST
> >change.  I just can't get it together this am...I mean afternoon (see
> >what I mean?).
>
>         Are you blonde? Tee-Hee. She says - shaking her pale whitish gold
> mop!
>
>                     Thanks for the info!!
>
> >Well, now that I've corrected myself here, I have to say that my
> >position is easier than the "right-hemi" because we live in a
> >right-handed world.
>
>                 That's true too!
>
> >A lot of it, in my case, boils down to thinking the problem through and
> >then figuring out a way around it.  At first, you think it's going to
> >take forever (like the sleeve thing), but after you practice for a while
> >things become second nature.
>
>             She is really good with  that - she has learned to put her hair
> in a ponytail and then turn it into a bun. It looks agonizing especial the
> angle she holds her head - I am waiting for it to fall off one day.
>
> >Check out some of the adaptive technology web-sites for amputees.  There
> >are some pretty neat devices for the single-handed out there.
>
>                 Good idea!!
>
> >Amber might not like this one at all, but it helped me quite a bit when
> >I was a kid (12 or so):  My dad would strap my good hand to my chest
> >with adhesive tape and have me do a different task every day with the
> >spastic hand.  Some days it was eating (yeah, it was a mess, but who
> >cared?), other days it was really challenging stuff like changing the
> >spark plug in the lawnmower (That one took about four hours.  I hollered
> >and pissed and moaned, but I finally did it.  He was so proud!).  I was
> >much less spastic then, but it kept me going for a few years at least.
>
>         Ummm...... well I encourage her to use her right hand, and she has
> to if she wants to paint her nails!!! We used to have right handed
> activities but since Amber's Dad walked out and I got laid off about the
> same time - survival for us has been the main focus of my life - which meant
> working up to 3 jobs at one point. I have joking thought about putting us up
> for adoption in the paper - Free to good home, mother and child - quiet,
> clean, affectionate, undemanding and housebroken. LOL
>
>                                     Brightest Blessings
>                                             Trisha