Sorry, I didn't catch that.  But still, if you want to do something hard
enough you can find a way.  My mother did.  She didn't drive until after my
father got sick with his last illness, and when she had to take one of us to
a doctor's appointment, she would find a way to get us there, most often by
taxicab.

Both of my sisters and I learned how to drive  as soon as we could so we
didn't have to depend on others for transportation.  I think we learned that
from my mother's fear of driving; she finally got over her fear when my
father was diagnosed with cancer and she had to take him to his chemo
treatments as none of us could help her with all of them, and she didn't
want to have to pay for the cab fares.  Actually she got rather good at it
and drove herself even after my father died, until she got too ill herself.
Personally, I think she had a lot of guts, to do that at her age.

I know, you don't have to tell me, we were a strange family.

Kat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Deri James" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
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Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: Sites About CP


> On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 4:53 pm, Salkin Kathleen wrote:
> > If you're part of an HMO organisation (or even a Medicaid system),
> > you can probably find another primary care physician and
> > specialists, if not in your town, then in the surrounding area.
> > You do have choices, you just may have to work harder at getting
> > them.
> >
> > When my family first moved to North Carolina when I was 15, we
> > moved to a small town of less than 1000 people between two larger
> > towns, which are now small cities.  There was only one doctor in
> > this town, but we had  a choice of other doctors in the area.  My
> > mother had to drive longer distances to get to them but she did
> > whatever she had to, to get there.  I ended up seeing an
> > orthopaedist 30 miles away.
> >
> > Kat
>
>
> Jenn had no private transport ("I had no money to get a vehicle to
> travel at the time.") No car limits choice.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri