Hi, Kathleen,
Linda's right. I realize it's frustrating at times to educate sighted
people but if you come off with a bad attitude, that can turn them off
too. Not too long ago I went for my Healthy Journey evaluation for my
yearly evaluation. The nurse practicioner was from another country and
she didn't know how to spell braille so instead of arguing with her, I
spelled it for her. Just because you had a bad experience with a
therapist once, that doesn't mean they're all that way. I get along very
well with the people at Nifty After Fifty which is the place I go to for
physical therapy. Like the old saying goes, "you can catch more flies
with honey than you can with vinigar".
Rosie
On 8/20/2016 10:05 AM, Linda Gehres wrote:
Poor Kathleen, you’ve sure been through the mill with professionals who assume that blind people need to be taken care of. Unfortunately, a lot of medical people have that attitude because although we’re a pretty independent population now, the old standards related to blindness, whether someone’s blind from birth or advantitiously blinded, doubt that we can be independent. Also, nowadays, you have a lot of medical professionals who come from places and cultureswhich aren’t American and White. Please cut them some slack. I know it’s a troublesome thing to have to be the guinea pig and educate these folks, but as people with a disability, that’s the cross we bear.
Linda G.
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I hope I don't get somebody to says why don't you have a sighted person with you. That really drives me totally up the wall. But I hope I don't get a physical therapist that doesn't want to work with a blind person. I had that experience once and I really don't want that to happen again
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On Aug 19, 2016, at 10:36 PM, Vickie <rolisonv@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:rolisonv@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I’m sure once you get to the hospital someone will guide you where
you want to go and they’ll call a volunteer to take you back out. That’s the way its been with every hospital I’ve ever been in,
especially traveling alone.
Vickie
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And I don't even know the way out of the hospital. I know it's
right across the street from me and that's part of the reason why
I can't use the ham radio to transmit unless
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> On Aug 19, 2016, at 12:06 PM, Rosemarie Chavarria
<knitqueen2007@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:knitqueen2007@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Hi, Kathleen,
>
>
> I'm so sorry you have to go to a hospital for further rehab.
That would frustrate me too.
>
>
> Rosie
>
>
>
>
>> On 8/18/2016 4:05 PM, Panix wrote:
>> As I said next Friday is my last day with Megan. But I still
need more rehab. So I'm going to have to go to an outpatient
clinic at a hospital. Now I've got to get used to a whole new
therapist a whole new routine and everything. Then it's just gonna
be really more stress. Honestly it's really
>>
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>>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Marty Rimpau
<mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Kathleen, I'm glad you and meghan have bonded so well
together, but I agree with you, this whole obama care thing is
nuts, and I think the elites in charge, that are controling the
president and congress want to make america like the rest of the
third world, but I am glad that you and meghan are so close, and I
hope that somehow, through all that is happening, that you may be
able to see her, even if she won't be in the roll as a therapist,
but I don't blame you for being angry at this messed up health
care system.
>>> Marty
>>>
>>>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Panix wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well Linda I hope your health situation improves. Honestly it
seems like you've been through the ringer lately. Well I got some
news today that I was not ready for. And neither was my physical
therapist I don't think. Well here's what I just got told today.
Next Friday will be my last day of therapy at Metro sports
physical therapy the clinic that I've been the happiest that.
Medicare is not going to pay for any more therapy there. She told
me my only other option is to go to a hospital as an outpatient
and go to therapy there. She said that Medicare will pay if I go
to a hospital forever and ever and that's it. The only other
option I have which I refuse to do is to go into a nursing home
which Medicare told me to do the last time I got dropped out of
another clinic. Over the same issue. The Medicare. The guy told me
if I want to physical therapy I should go to one nursing home and
I said why should I do that and he said well you're blind you
should go to one. And I got
> th
>>> e guy at
>>> M
>>>> edicare in trouble for saying that too. Anyway that was just
really crazy. So Megan and I were just about ready to cry. And I
also don't have my unlimited long distance back from Time Warner
either. So I don't know where that's going to stand. Because I was
happy I was doing chat lines and getting paid for it. And Time
Warner got upset about that. But the other thing they did was they
drop my access to information. Or directory assistance whatever
you want to call it. So I can't look up phone numbers on my own or
anything. So I'm thinking about taking them to court over that
issue. So that's the way that goes. So it's really going to be sad
when I leave the clinic next Friday. I already told one of the
other therapist goodbye. I told Lisa goodbye and I told Joe
goodbye to. And I have a feeling like Megan's not going to hold up
very well either. I know she was really upset and angry and so was
I. This whole thing with healthcare is totally fucked up and I'm
sorry to use th
> at
>>> languag
>>> e
>>>> with Nana my test. I mean really I'm not even fully
functional yet and they're going to dump me out. That's just
doesn't make sense. I mean I still have pain in my shoulder and my
forearm and she just said to some of the exercises at home or
start with another clinic. If I do that I'll have to get used to
another therapist at the clinic at the hospital. Which I can do
but I don't even know where to go. So I'm kind of upset about this
whole thing. But as far as window so I don't have to worry about
that. At some point I'm going to have to go to the Apple Store and
get my phone updated. And I will do that soon I think. Maybe since
I'm going to have a couple more free days I can go to the senior
center that's neck next to me and socialize. I have no idea what
I'm going to go home yet. Now let's see what happens with all my
stuff comes back that I put in storage. Hopefully the welcome
back. Anyway I called the library and ask him to replace a book on
cassette that was defecti
> v
>>> e. I als
>>> o
>>>> asked him about another book and they said it was an old book
and they said I might get a defective cassette if they replaced
it. So let's see what happens. The library is telling me they're
phasing out the set books but they're still sending them to me.
Plus the digitals. And I really think I have a haunted digital
player. Every once in a while when I'm in the bedroom and I'm not
even touching my digital player it'll start playing my book all by
itself. It takes the book back to the beginning and starts playing
it. I wonder if it's because I'm close to the radiology department
at the hospital or something. This is really strange and I told
the person at the library and he said it was really weird. It
doesn't do it all the time but it does it every once in a while.
And I woke up a couple days ago and my digital player was playing.
It was really kind of odd
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Linda Gehres <ljgehres@xxxxxxx
<mailto:ljgehres@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey Rayford, I'm at about the same place as you are, so if
it's similar to
>>>>> Windows 7 or Vista, I've got it made. Not gonna update yet
till I have a better
>>>>> handle on what's going on with me healthwise.
>>>>>
>>>>> Linda G.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Hi, I just got the new update for windows 10. It is like
vista or
>>>>> windows 7 but it responds better. All I do is read and listen to
>>>>> music, so I don't know much about the learning curb.
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