your welcome and this year I am staying with my sister if I go. Ann

Hi Rich, I have been to the last 2 of them for they have been held in my hometown for the last 3 years now this is the last one in my hometown. I go and stay a month when I go to the conference and visit my children and grand babies. I had a blast last year. I ended up even getting to help teach some of the children in the first swim class. Does it cost a lot yes, for the rooms or a lot, so if you like there or other places across the street you can stay half price what it cost to stay there and get breakfast free. A lot of people did that last year. Or get a room mate you can trust to go with you. Do not take someone you do not know that is a bad idea. Know from experience what can happen. I got so much out of this last year for I became a peer visit certified though the ACA and I also leaned how to deal with a lot of problems to bring up to my prosthetist which I did not really know how to bring them up. I met so many friends this year for I went alone and did not take my husband who just hangs all over me and will not let me talk. So if I go again this year I will most likely stay with my sister and just come to the events. For I am losing my knee and may not be able to drive there this year. I hope they move it more west this next year. Ann

Rich, I only lived in Indianapolis while I was in the Army and attending DINFOS at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in 1981. My ex was from there, and I visited for a couple of Christmas holidays with her family in the early 90's.

I'm Mimi, and I was reading your blog. Very familiar things you have written about! My leg was amputated JUST above the knee, so after few years I was told that surgeons should have taken a little bit more to be able to have good/realistic looking leg. But they never did another surgery, I didn't wanted that either