Greetings again, my new TOS family...I'm blown away by the caring & help y'all are so freely sharing...I only hope I can be such in return, and if in my reply, I've forgotten anyone, please forgive this noob...

Hey dorrie….nice to meet a fellow Ontarian….my birth mom’s up near Orillia & I used to date a guy from Keswick….small world, isn’t it?

<waves to LinJane> you’re so right about how great this place is, thanks

Hi jo…..yes, I’ve been working on getting to know the PM system here & am contacting some of my fellow Canadians, thanks for the welcome

<waves both hands, one for Mark, one for Goober> and nice to meet you’s

and yes, it’s “canuck”, hun….lol….but seems I’m in good company here, thanks

Hello hairdresser….another Canadian, how fabulous….thanks for the links, greeting & hope you’re feeling better, hun

Just working on finding a Family Doctor, went for the interview Monday actually….since when did Canadian doctors start acting like they were in hollywood or some such place that they have to “see if you’re a good fit” for their practice? And then he says, call back in a couple week's time to find out what he's decided!! What ever happened to the hypocratic oath??

Haven’t applied for Cppdisability yet (but upon a smart lady’s suggestion to do it regardless of having a family doctor seems to be in order, just to get the process started, knowing they’ll probably deny the first app anyways…yish, this is such a dance we all do, isn’t it?)

wow, Jamy…..would love to get together for coffee or such….if you’re up for it....it's just tooooo kewl to have found someone in my own back yard, as it were....woohoo


Just as an aside to all the hiyas...I've been working with an employment agency lately that specializes in handling people with disabilities. The intake worker had basically told me that about the only thing he could see me fit for doing right now might be call center work (like aspiring to a bottom rung re-entery job was such a thing to "look forward" to) <sigh>

So a couple weeks ago I went out, applied to a few & was hired by one company that I started with last week. I just couldn't handle the pain, the stress (not to mention the moral issue of such a dirty kind of business), so I quit today....stupid, I know, as I really don't have alternatives right now in any form of luxury, but I just wasn't any good to them or myself in the capacity that I am/or am not at this time. Guess I'll head back to the agency tomorrow again to regrettably fill them in on the bad news & try to explain to them that I'm just not capable of doing anything but trying to get healthy again right now...not that that will help my situation, but working left me with even lesser rest & stress & the TOS seems to be rapidly spreading/attrifying the last few weeks. Hopefully someone will finally hear my cries for help soon.

It helps to come on here & find out how similar we all are in our own unique ways....it really is like coming home....thank you's


Becca (Vixen)