Anthony,

I agree with the people that say I need twenty-four hour care.  This is
because I get up several times in the middle of the night and I need help
every time I get up.

Kathy






-----Original Message-----
From:   Anthony Arnold [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Saturday, June 09, 2001 4:35 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Catching.Up

Kathy,

I loved hearing that you're making a little progress with feeding yourself,
it was slow and messy for me at the beginning too but easier and cleaner as
time goes on but I was hard on myself not allowing myself to call mommy and
daddy the more difficult it got, which is a lesson in itself.  I would also
love to know the person or people who are telling you that you need
twenty-four hour care because they told me the same line and I was
believing
it like a religion until January, when I made my parents, people we know
and
even myself look like we didn't know anything.  I'm telling you just to try
anything and don't totally believe the ideas of others and yourself, people
can be wrong more easily than they can be right.

Thanks,
Anthony

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  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Kathy Jo Pink
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 2:54 PM
  Subject: Catching.Up


  Hi everybody ,

  We have sold our two cars that were for sale.

  Last weekend , we went to see me brother and his family.  While , we were
  there we went to a Fish Fry.

  I am still working on my directories.  I am still working on DeWitt.

  My attendant , Jane , came back on Monday.  This week , I have been
working
  on feeding myself and I am successful at it!  But , I tire very easily
and
  fast.  I am starting off slow with just finger foods.

  I'm not going to move out.  I need twenty-four hour round-the-clock care.
   I am going to be looking in to Adult Family Homes or Group Homes.
   Probably will start to try to stay somewhere else sometimes when my
  parents have things to do on the weekends as a form of respite.

  I am starting to use a wheelchair in the house.  (Before this , I scooted
  around on the floor in the house )  I just got a new push wheelchair.  It
  was used , but , when I got it , it was in execellent shape.

  I have some computer questions. . .  In Internet Exploder, I , somehow
lost
  the place where you would type webpage addresses to get them up on your
  computer monitor if I don't have them in my favorite list.  Does anybody
  know , how I can get it back? I can't add anybody to my ICQ Contact List.
   My ICQ UIN # is 108995479. I just got AIM yesterday , but , my computer
  doesn't like my screenname and password that I typed in.  What can I do
  about this? Does everybody that has AOL have AIM?  If so , are their
  ScreenNames just before AOL.Com in their E-Mail addresses.  Now , I have
  PalTalk.  My nickname on there is KJPink

  Prayers are still needed for my good friend , Ronda.  She is out of the
  hospital.  She is been taken care of by a 70-80 year old woman. They told
  the hospital that she was a RN , but , she isn't.  Ronda needs dressing
and
  to learn how to walk all over again.   They won't let anyone else to help
  Ronda not even her own family.  What made her sick in the first place is
  having pets in the house.  Where Ronda is living now , there are twice as
  many pets in the house than where she was living before.

  This week , I was asked to give another presentation by my old Speech
  Teacher.  I will be giving this presentation in the afternoon of June
  twenty-first.