I've been an amputee long enough to know what I can and can't do anymore. 

  I've been using prosthetics for over 30 years now and getting by with a cane or a forearm crutch.  I've decided to stop and just sit most of the time.  Other things are giving out now.  My remaing knee now locks up from time to time and my shoulders are in constant pain.  My wife and I have moved to a single story ranch house and are in the process of making it easy for me to get around in a chair. 

  At the moment I've getting around in an ancient manual wheelchair, but I'm trying to get an electric job.  Since the VA pays for this, this is taking more time than I'd like.  It doesn't hwlp when the closest VA facility is rated as one of the worst in the country.

  I'm usually in a pretty good mood and do have a way of looking at life from a cockeyed perspective.  I figure I'm not going out of here alive, but I fully intend to take a few along with me and we'll enjoy the ride to the end.