What is the one thing you can;t do, but you wish you could?

Answer 1

take short cuts in my wheelchair, your trying to get to the bus stop. Your across the street people that can walk just cross the street but you have to go all the way down to the corner where you can cross then you have to back track.

Answer 2

Walk up and down stairs like "normal" people do who have two good legs

Get on the floor again to play with the kids or pets

Get up OFF the floor after I get down

Get in the tub and soak in the hot water to help my polio leg and foot so they don't hurt as much. I can get in with difficulty but getting out is almost impossible.

Not have to deal with the "blue foot" from the polio where my leg atrophied ~ I don't have the natural muscle tone to keep it warm (it's like a block of ice, especially in the winter)

Not have to deal with the brain fog from the Post Polio and Epstein Barr Virus which I dealt with for 5 years (late 80s/early 90s).

And I'm sure there are other things, too, but those are the main ones. For the most part I give thanks that I can still walk even if it is slow and painful and every day is truly a blessing and a gift from God. Even with all the polio problems since I was a kid, I'm still better off than many others who had polio when I did (and before and after). I'm very thankful I didn't end up in an iron lung like hundreds of others did.

Answer 3

So far I haven't found anything I can't do. Being legally blind is an inconvenience, the disability is all about how society treats the person with an impairment.

BTW--that even includes driving. I do have a bit of residual vision--and DON'T drive normally. But a couple of years ago, a relative was having a medical emergency and no phone was availabe to call for help. So I drove her to a hospital. Hit two curbs and a bush, but that's all!

I will admit I miss driving a motorcycle as I did when I could see. One of the things I'm working on is how to manage this (off-road, of course).

Answer 4

I truly wish I could kneel down at the altar at my church.. I cannot kneel anymore with my new knees

I wish I could take long walks in the woods or around the lake, but I have had 2 total knee replacements and my doc won't let me do much walking on hard ground.. I am doing wonderfully well with them and I never even think about having 'manmade knees'. I have had my new knees for 5 years now.

Answer 5

Good grief! How much time have you got lol...walk without elbow crutches, cook a meal without feeling like our spines are going to crumble, cook a meal without any pain, decorate the house ie painting and decorating, without having to pay huge sums of money for someone else to do it, go for a nice long walk or even a nice short one, have a bath without being in more pain when we get out than before we got in, get dressed without a struggle, put our socks on without getting a sweat on!, wake up in the morning without having to take a handful of medication before we can get up, this is like filling out an application for DLA! On a lighter note....X-ray vision so we can see if Tesco really don't have the item we want that they say hasn't come in with the delivery, flying without an aeroplane, super powers like The Fantastic Four or Superman or any of the comic book heroes...etc, etc.,

Answer 6

Look into the future and see what my son's life is like after I am gone.

Answer 7

To be able to go out and breath with out being short of breath and to be able to visit friends and family more often then I do, all because of my copd.

Answer 8

Ride a motor bike.

Answer 9

To run and the only thing I feel is the wind...no pain.

Answer 10

Run with scissors, play in traffic, and ofcourse play good cop/bad cop with my ex........ the usual stuff. I have MS.