carolanne


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    Your Disability above knee amputee
    How long have you been an amputee? 10-20 years
    How did you become disabled? it's a long story
    What type(s) of prosthesis do you use? c-leg
    About Me I'm a recent college graduate, working in a field completely unrelated to my course of study. I work with kids. I enjoy it most of the time.
    Music I like to look below the surface.
    TV Scrubs, AMNTM, The Office, I watch a lot of TV but none of it's very good.
    Books I've read a lot of books. I like anything by David Sedaris, On the Road was a good book, Perks of Being a Wallflower will always be important to me, there are too many books.
    Likes I like a lot of things. Cats, ducks, squirrels, feeding ducks, taking pictures, making arts and crafts with kids, camp, shoes, adventures...
    Dislikes Traffic
    Hobbies taking pictures, reading books, hanging out with my cat
    Vices smoking
    Virtues I'm pretty amazing

    12 hour work days

    Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 02:48 PM [General]

    I E.S.P. subbed today and yesterday. I also worked at Target last night, and am going again tonight (covering for a friend, I need money!). Today there was a boy leaving a class I was entering with two prosthetic legs. I didn't get to talk to him at all, but it was cool to see. It's terrible when a young person has to deal with loss of limb (who knows though, it might have bene congenital), but I think the more exposure kids have to people with disabilities the more sensitive they'll be as adults.

     I went to a prosthetic evaluation clinic on Monday. All I really got out of it was that I don't really need to use my cane anymore. Which is half-true. Most of the time I don't even use it, but if I'm on my feet, moving around for a while, and I don't use it I feel like death. Last night at work I left it in the fitting room while I moved around the store. By the end of the night my back hurt and I felt like I could barely move. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or what.

    I don't really have much else to share right now. I want to go to grad school in the neat future, so I need to get writing samples together and start looking into schools, but I've been working a lot lately.

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    it's been a while

    Sunday, September 14, 2008, 01:47 PM [General]

    So I haven't posted here in over a month. Oops. It's not like I've been doing anything cool. I started working at Target at the end of July. This is my second time there, and I'm not too thrilled. At least it's easy work. It does get kind of hard to be one my feet all day, eight hour shifts hurt. I'm still looking for a better job, since I can't really live on minimum wage and I'd like my own health insurance.

    I also subsituted at the middle school as an ESP (education support person), which was fun. Hopefully I get called more for that.

    So yeah, I'm not up to much right now.

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    How is Miss Carolanne doing? Haven't heard anything from you in a while and wanting to make sure everything is still going great.

    James
    August 18, 2008
    11:37 AM CST

    Thanks for you comments Carolanne, I hate that I lost my leg at 59, but you are a real trooper, you have your whole life ahead of you, Since 12, WOW, that is amazing to have your attitude.

    When I think of all that I did and accomplished since I was 12 and now 62, that 50 years of flying all over with the Air Force, College, National Sales Rep logging over 1 million miles. But you know 4 years after my ABK amputation, I still feel it is only an inconvience, and you have so many great tool at hand like the internet. Good Luck and write me back

    Ron
    July 08, 2008
    11:46 AM CST

    Hi Carolanne! Thanks for your comment...I'm glad to know someone who share similar interests under such circumstances. Take Care

    elaine
    June 11, 2008
    06:00 PM CST

    Hi carolanne, thanks for your encouragement, went through it all again today, it seems like all my PT sessions are used up with tweaking the socket.
    All the best,
    Peter --like your cat

    peterjk
    June 05, 2008
    09:24 PM CST