 |
 |
In a message dated 96-10-06 06:02:11 EDT, you write: > >All in all, the symposium wa Bruce, Good job with the symposium! Your story about discovering that your shorts were on backwards caused my reflection on some 'changes' I made along the way due to PD..... I worked for a while at Sky Harbor International Airport. It was always hectic.I felt bodies were shooting around me like bullets all the time. The PD was always slowing me down and I switched from skirts most often to avoid the impossibility of getting panty hose on. Well, slacks had buttons that became immpossible too (but I couldn't afford to replace all my suits yet & couldn't manage a needle to sew on velcro) so I became bold enough to ask anyone else in the ladies room to please help zip/button me up. I justified this to myself by taking it as an opportunity to educate the public about PD. Anyway.. this time no one else was there and after what seemed like forever of failed attempts to button/zip up, I gave up - pulled my blouse down over my waist, shuffled across the terminal (seemed like a zillion miles) while holding up my pants, finally shuffled into the conference room and asked a fella to zip/button me up. Since I was holding the meeting, was late, and had attendees that weren't famliar with my "situation", I didn't have the time (or energy) to shuffle out of the room to get "dressed". So of course it became a show-&-tell performance at the head of the conferece table! Of course they all got my speech on what PD is. I look back now and I'm amazed at some of these adventures! But I have met some of the nicest people when I go around asking strangers to please help me button my blouse, tie my shoe, get my watch on, open my purse, write in my checks.... etc. I can do it all "eventually", but life is so short and so are my "on" times. So I hate to take so much time struggling with all these piddly things. I threw away all the little "helper tools" I used like the shoe lace fasteners, the elastic band wrist watch, the 'hook' to zip up pants. I even quit using keys to get in and out of the office and home (remote opener). I finally had some business cards with my name address & phone printed on one side, and infor about what PD is on the other side. I figure, if I can't hide it...flaunt it!!. Yes, life is good! We're in it together! Maryhelen