The reason so many people are so hard on the MDA telethon is that they play
up on the pity factor to raise money for the cause, or  at least they used
to.  To be fair, so did UCP and Easter Seals.  It's that aspect I deplore
about the telethons.

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chester Worwa" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: Prayers


> I'm glad your home.  You might want to try knee
> immobolizers for your hamstrings.  I have been
> sleeping in a pair of knee immobolizers for a year and
> a half now and they are helping me wonderfully.
>
> --- Linda Wagner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Yes, Mag, I came home late Monday night and can
> > relax and recover in the
> > comfort of home.  I have a ways to go.  I am
> > breathing easier and hurting
> > less, but I still am nowhere close to 100% and I am
> > taking some mega pain
> > pills.  I can tell you all one thing...having CP and
> > getting a bloodclot in
> > your lung really stinks.  Through all the pain
> > initially I was as rigid as a
> > board, and then when the pain was more controlled, I
> > could hardly walk after
> > spending so much time not moving in bed!  Even now,
> > I don't feel I have land
> > legs quite yet.  I am using my walker from back when
> > I had hamstring
> > lengthening surgery three years ago to walk
> > everywhere.  Now that I am on
> > coumadin, I sure as heck don't want to fall and
> > bruise/cut myself!
> >
> > Linda
>
>
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