I am a cripple .

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I am a cripple , I guess I can leave out the " semi -" .
I walk slowly and painstakingly , I get tired quick - I doubt I will ever have enough treatment/rest/a proper position to get better . Perhaps .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Don't let anyone judge you because of your restricted physical capabilities.

...It's not the judgement-Thank you-It's the inconvenience/pain .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Sweet Pea hugs

What sort of treatment do you wish you had? Have you expressed this need for treatment before? What was Physical Therapy like for you?

We will be here for you every step of the way!

Cases like yours just go to show how horrible the American healthcare system is. I would hate to have to live under a system where medical treatment is restricted to people who can afford it up front.

Stay strong for me. You're a fighter.

Never give up and believe in yourself!

I have cerebral palsy & I didn't walk until I was 3, I was in physical therapy & remember braces on my legs, I wouldn't keep up, I learned to walk.

...Basically , if I had:
(1) Somewhat improved medical treatment ~ MAYBE the treatment I have now is adequate , as of now , it's basically umpteen pills ~ About 13 a day at this point and it's been up as much as 15 IIRC .
(2) A touch better place to stay .
(3) Where I do not have to walk daily to eat , or get computer access , or in general as much . I probably over-walk , on my aching back/spine/my questionable legs (A table I attepmpted to sit on in a store yesterday collapsed on me .) . However , the alternative is (As another post I made today details) a rather dubious place , with nothing much to do .
If I could stay somewhere , temporarily , nicer ...

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Sorry to hear that you're feeling so awful.

Seems like you have the two places to choose from: the room you're in now, and a new one, right?

If you stay where you are now, are there ways to get food delivered now and then? Or ways to make the walking easier, if you can't find a way to cut the walking down? I know people who use walkers and wheelchairs because they say they can go more places by using them, for example.

...No , Data , I do not have two rooms to pick from , just this one .
(I am going to refer to things said in my " Me again " post , also here in The Haven .)
Though this morning was overcast , I do still feel the effect of the sunlight , and I do worry about what it could do to my eyes ! I DON'T WANT TO GO BLIND/HAVE MY VISION IMPAIRED !
I bought a quite large backpack ~ In at least a theory , it's maybe just to tell myself " I can hit the road any time I want to " .
I have been walking around wearing it ~ There is almost nothing in it now .
I really feel stuffed , I believe from the pills (as I said , they give me massive amounts of them) ~ If anything , I've rather ate less ~ as I said , I don't have in-house , in my place , meals , as I did have in the shelters .
I did sleep/feel exausted a lot to-day , only leaving the place at 2 PM or so ~ And it took til' 4-ish , IIRC , on Saturday, the same feeling exaused/sleepy - so I did not get to a computer over the wknd. (Not even the very few minutes I can scarf up at the Apple store , after an uphill walk , before they kick me out ~ Now , this moment , I am at this Tenderloin Computer Lab , my primary source ~ Remember , I am still banned from the library and I've yet to reach the doctor at the former shelter who said he'd tell the library that I was hospitalized (Which i was .) on the day of their " trial " of me ~ and I am not optimistic that he followed through .
I have eaten rather little , and , formally , I don't think I've eaten since finally " getting up " to-day , so I am in fact hungry - The lack of meals puts in this poisition , as I said before , of having to walk ON MY HOBBLED BODY , to one , noontime , feed that is nearby ~ As I said , if I could
(1) temporarily , anyway , stay somewhere (2) Where my situation , and (3) the care I ot , maybe , was better (4) and didn't have to walk so much - Really , I AM CRIPPLED !

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!