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Started by The Black Sheep , Aug 03 2011 11:19 PM

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#1 The Black Sheep

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 11:19 PM

Maybe I shouldn't celebrate, or maybe it's not normal, but as of last Monday, I've officially been sitting down for 13 whopping years! I remember, like, my first 5 anniversaries, and they were dismal, but with my recent accomplishment of peeing, I'm a bit more optimistic this go-round. So cheers everyone! =D
3 doctors diagnosed me with hysterical paralysis (weee!), 1 diagnosed an incomplete T7, another T2 and the last (and most accurate) T5. Trampolines are BAD. Sleep is unpredictable. And never kiss strangers. Life has moved on.

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 11:29 PM

Congrats on making it this long, and having such a great attitude about life! :hug:
What's important is not what happens to us, but how we react to what happens to us..

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 11:29 PM

Why not celebrate? You don't have much choice but to get on with things as they are - and in my book, you're doing a damned fine job of it. Happy anniversary (especially the peeing :D)

Edited by greybeard, 03 August 2011 - 11:30 PM.

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Posted 03 August 2011 - 11:42 PM

Congratulations on where you are at this point. You have a good attitude and spirit. Even now I am still having some positive peeing changes from aging. My mom always reminded me of the date....she has been gone for years and there are some years I completely forget about it.
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 01:27 AM

Yeah when I had my 30th birthday I realized (although it was a bit belated) that I'd been gimped for 1/2 mine. :doh:
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 01:42 AM

Congrats on 13 TBS, celebrate each one :emoticon-0165-muscle:
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 02:09 AM

Hey, it's a good thing to have such an anniversary. I love your enthusiasm for the recent peeing. I hope things only continue to improve.

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 02:11 AM

Peeing is good! Celebrate that, if nothing else.

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 03:23 AM

Happy Gimpaversary! Come sunday it'll be 4 years for me

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 04:08 AM

Turning a negative to the positive ! Awesome! Happy Anniversary and glad too here about the pee! :cheers: Cheers

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 06:37 AM

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 06:46 AM

Aren't you amazed at the little things like peeing can make such a hugh impact on your life? When you take contol of your sci, it can't take control of you! Congrats!!

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 07:53 AM

CONGRATULATIONS wonderful!!!
I always celebrate my anniversary, because it's an excuse to have cake. And cake it always good. So I've just told the office we're doing the same for yours!! SO THANK YOU FROM THE OFFICE FOR OUR EXCUSE TO EAT CAKE :D

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 12:11 PM

Sweet, people get cake on my behalf.

LOL Rattics, Gimpaversary. I actually spent most of the day sleeping, which is always nice because it was a day off from work, and I had a nice big cigar =D
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Posted 04 August 2011 - 12:48 PM

BS,

How dare you celebrate 13 years of sitting down! Stand up. Now!!
Cling to the sink and wash those dishes. It is timed to move out off your comfort zone and get taller.

I think we should all (well, all who are able) join you in a movement called "Pee for the Cure". Perhaps sci1998 has time to organize this.

Certainly i can enlist the support of my friends.

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#16 The Black Sheep

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 12:59 PM

View PostTetracyclone, on 04 August 2011 - 12:48 PM, said:

BS,

How dare you celebrate 13 years of sitting down! Stand up. Now!!
Cling to the sink and wash those dishes. It is timed to move out off your comfort zone and get taller.

I think we should all (well, all who are able) join you in a movement called "Pee for the Cure". Perhaps sci1998 has time to organize this.

Certainly i can enlist the support of my friends.

Sending a river of support your way.
Tetra
HAHA! Oh man, but if we did that I'd have to drink tons of water and be in public. That NEVER goes over well. But if it's for a cause, I'll show the world how complicated pee can be.

Hey, I just realized... if sci1998 has any significance to the year 1998, then he's been a gimp as long as I have! Even more reason to celebrate!!! Oh wait, he doesn't do happy things, right?
3 doctors diagnosed me with hysterical paralysis (weee!), 1 diagnosed an incomplete T7, another T2 and the last (and most accurate) T5. Trampolines are BAD. Sleep is unpredictable. And never kiss strangers. Life has moved on.

#17 The Black Sheep

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 01:04 PM

View PostTetracyclone, on 04 August 2011 - 12:48 PM, said:

BS,

How dare you celebrate 13 years of sitting down! Stand up. Now!!
Cling to the sink and wash those dishes. It is timed to move out off your comfort zone and get taller.

You know, that's funny, cause that's what my husband sarcastically said and we found a method that works pretty good. I can stand in a walker a little bit, and he put my cigars in the top kitchen cupboard, so now if I really want to smoke he told me I have to get taller to get them. Kills two birds with one stone, I suppose. It's exhausting, so I don't take many, and when I do, I have to walk across the house to get there... which takes about 10 minutes in a walker. Good exercise.
3 doctors diagnosed me with hysterical paralysis (weee!), 1 diagnosed an incomplete T7, another T2 and the last (and most accurate) T5. Trampolines are BAD. Sleep is unpredictable. And never kiss strangers. Life has moved on.

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 02:04 PM

I would love a t shirt that said PEEING FOR A CURE.

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Posted 04 August 2011 - 05:27 PM

hi black sheep,

in december i'll be in this chair half of my life. i think it really does make you think. congratulations on all your accomplishments.



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Posted 09 August 2011 - 11:04 PM

happy aniversary!
congrats on the peeing bit :) its good your getting somewhere!

Heres to the future and any further developments you have!:)

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 11:19 PM

Well done, what you don't want to do though is to take another 13 years to master having a poo!!!
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Posted 10 August 2011 - 04:09 AM

Good for you and it's great about your peeing ability.
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#23 The Black Sheep

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 08:36 PM

View PostEdinburgh Colin, on 09 August 2011 - 11:19 PM, said:

Well done, what you don't want to do though is to take another 13 years to master having a poo!!!
Surprisingly that one was fairly easy to regulate. The bladder is the temperamental one that always spasms with annoyance.
3 doctors diagnosed me with hysterical paralysis (weee!), 1 diagnosed an incomplete T7, another T2 and the last (and most accurate) T5. Trampolines are BAD. Sleep is unpredictable. And never kiss strangers. Life has moved on.
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