Erin,

If a bike shop can't fix it, a lawn mower, garden supply or small engine repair place might be able to. Rototillers and lawn mowers use the same sort of hand grip, cable-type of mechanism.

Children fiddle around with things...its in their nature to explore their environment through touch. They don't always appreciate the difference between expensive equipment and toys; especially when they are young. Developing that appreciation comes from good parenting; something that is sadly lacking all too often.
The parent should have stepped up to the plate when it came to light that their child had messed with and may have damaged your walker, but as they say...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I hope that you find a repair shop that can fix it without much expense. It sounds like replacing the cable mechanism should do the trick.

With love, Erika

yesterday (wednesday) was the last day of the short taper I did. (2nd taper this month)

Today, I feel really bad. Not sure if it's because I just finished two courses of steroids, or if whatever was making me feel sick is still making me feel sick. No idea if it's an MS thing, or not.

I just want to cry. My legs feel weaker every morning. I keep feeling like something very bad is about to happen. I feel really stressed out. I've been trying to do stuff (exercises) to try to feel better, but nothing I do helps.

then yesterday when that brat broke my walker. That just really got to me. Oh, and I asked the guy who made my new AFO that I got today if he knew how to fix the walker. He said it was too broken for him to fix.

One of the cables is completely ripped out, and the other one is bent, and barely hanging on. That kid really damaged it.

I have that car that I got last summer, and I can't drive it, and I've been trying to get hand controls for the car, and it seems like no one will help me do that. I'm starting to feel like there's not really any point to keep trying to do anything. Might as well just sell the car. I never even get to ride in the front seat because whenever we go anywhere my mom gets the front seat. That car is fast becoming a sore point with me.

oh, and the new AFO hurts my leg. It's so uncomfortable that I took it off. Going to call and tell them there's something wrong with it.

just feel like everything is getting worse and worse, and no one wants to help me.

My head really hurts tonight. Think I'll go to bed. Everything hurts tonight.

Hang in there Erin. I'm having one of those weeks where I feel like it would be better to give up too. I keep wondering why I bother putting in so much effort and get so little return and my most recent attack has really set me back.

Being a mom myself I would have had no problem yelling at the kid and physically removing him from my device. And as a mom I apologize for that child's mother's lack of actual parenting. When I was walking my son to class one day I had a kid come up behind me, put his hands on each butt check and try to push me faster through the doorway and when he could finally get around me he kicked my cane and I nearly fell. I'll just say the school secretary came out of the office and supported me in my attempt to "educate" him on how to treat people with disabilities.

this past week has just been one bad day after one bad day.

I'm pretty much on my last nerve.

I've been trying to be nice to my mom, since she has problems with her temper from having had a TBI over 50yrs ago, and then having West Nile encephalitis in 2012. She has no brain-to-mouth filter, and everything she says is pretty much said in snarl form.

She's been really nasty to me and my dad lately. My dad has been pretty sick with his heart condition. Sick enough that I'm extremely worried about him. (he won't go to the doctor, except for the ones where they do blood tests)

I kind of lost it earlier today. My mom was being really nasty to both me and my dad. (she was screaming that she wanted to die) I just came downstairs and closed my not-yet-painted-no-doorknob-installed-yet bedroom door, and just kind of sat and cried. I am so stressed out the past few days. All I do is sleep, but I don't get any actual rest. I'm tired all the time. All my mom ever does is complain and yell at me. She berates my dad all the time. You can only take so much verbal abuse before you want to snap.

My back hurts. For some reason my shoulders are both starting to hurt like they did when I had frozen shoulder during the fall. I'm numb all over.

I'm missing a couple of really fun activities that my dad said I could have gone to if I'd been healthy enough. (meaning he would have paid for me to go to a Sherlock Holmes convention in Atlanta this weekend if I wasn't sick. I could have met a ton of my online friends who are also knitters/crocheters. Totally missing out on that)

I'm quickly becoming an agoraphobic hermit, that's never going to leave her parent's basement.

just hitting the brick wall of all-I-can-take-at-the-moment.

you know how they say that stress is bad for MS, and you should reduce your stress?? I'm getting a first hand look at why they say that. It's true.

Dear little Sally,

I hope you will be feeling better soon sweetie. I'm so sorry about your mishap when you were out. Sending a gentle hug to you dear one.

of trying to help/support a fellow MS'er with her problems. She is somewhat overweight, has rosacea on her face ( a clear sign of inflammation) has a terrible diet and exercise program, is plagued with constant depression and REFUSES to consider that all the crap she eats furthers her inflammation and does not help her disease process.

She thinks the DMDs are of no value and takes steroids like candy.

I have offered the thought that maybe a gluten free diet over a long period may have some benefit. She is full of excuses.

I have reached the end of my compassion rope and need to find a way to tell her to stop complaining. The power to improve her life is in her hands, she childishly refuses to do anything about it. Now I simply pity her in a pathetic way.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Erin, re: walker brake cables, my dad's walker developed a damaged cable on one side. A family friend just look the company up on the Web and ordered a new set. Maybe that would work for you. <hoping>

ANN

MissJ...time to let go, I guess. Someone told me you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. You've done your part...kudos to you for trying so hard!

thank you…….feeling better about it now...

Feeling a lot weaker today. Not feeling good at all. Legs are weaker. Getting tired really fast, and I have a weird bruise on the palm side of my middle finger, right at the joint. Kind of aches.

Also, my neck hurts, right behind my jaw. And my shoulders are hurting. (that really kind of scares me, after all the pain from the frozen shoulder I had during the late fall and over winter)


on a non-health complainy note...why the heck did the painters put my trashcan in my closet??? But left my electric fan in the room to get it all dusty?