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Hi Laura and MiaVita,

Sorry you hit your head. I have trouble in the car just like you. Also in crowded places. I wear ear plugs and sunglasses and used to hold onto my husbands arm.

Finally I decided to get a walking stick. It helps me balance and if it's bad My hubby grabs me. I like the independence of the walking stick. Target sells two I. A pack. When go on walks I'm going to try to use both to get my arms going. Just a normal pace, but it should help my health.

The animal watching helped me greatly from month 6 on. I fed the squirrels and fattened them up for winter. I have many birds where I live now, no squirrels so I am learning about them..very relaxing.

Spirituality comes to us in many ways. The animals and nature are such a beautiful, pure path. Nature is a foundation to me. It has always played a big role in my life but even larger now.

I'm going to get a finch feeder. We have purple and yellow finches her. I think I will add a bird bath to and a hummingbird feeder. I saw a crane yesterday. We have lots of geese and ducks. I haven't seen any fox, deer, or raccoons yet. Hoping to.

I so wish I could listen to audio books. I was a voracious reader prior to injury. Miss the stories immensely. Every now and then I will watch an animal documentary if it's a quiet day and I'm alone. Sometimes with sound for a bit.

One of my favorite voices is Peter Thomas. He narrates Forensic Files. I used to fall asleep to his voice. I wish he did other things besides the dark stories.

So glad to chat with you both!

:hug:

Jace

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Originally Posted by Living_Dazed (Post 1071106)

There's really no short answer here so here it is.

We sold our house and moved to my moms. We were going to be building and adding an inlaw suit for my mom and while living at her house getting it ready to go on the market. We were going to move to the town I taught in.

Two weeks after we moved in my moms our daughter had a scheduled spinal surgery. She had broken her back they think in gymnastics a few years earlier. Where she broke it was not a painful break but after time the bones wore away and her spine at the L5-S1 were not connected with bone. We were unaware of the break until all her sports brought out the pain.

We we waiting for her to heal enough that she could go to school full time to start building the house but 3 months after her surgery her and I were in the accident.

That put off building. I still had our original plan in my head even though I wasn't working and in bad shape. I couldn't see how I was. Plus our daughter was still healing from major surgery and the accident.

I think I was the last one to get it that our life plans had to change. We could no longer have the same lifestyle on one salary and save for college and retirement. My hubby decided to buy a new townhouse with property management taking care of everything outside. They are putting a pool in now and building a club house. There are lakes and a rough walking path, not paved.

Our past house we built was 1/3 of an acre and 2300 sq ft with large pool. Way too much to do again. This new house is 1450 sq ft. When he gets home he has lots of time for us instead of yard work and repairs.

I've never liked gardening or dirt. I did well at the old house but it was a lot of work. Now we have a small front yard with a bed and a small patch of grass in the back with a patio.

For the first time I think I am going to do a few plants and I want to. I want to keep them alive. I think a pot in the back and I will plant daffodils in the front. I used to have a gorgeous trumpet vine growing on my fence. I never had to do anything to it because the downspout ran to it. The hummingbirds were always there and by the honeysuckle. The peonies were maintenance free and the rest were bushes and maaintence free stuff.

I was the painter and project person. Restructure a room? Sure take this wall down add this or that. I loved changing things to make our home what we wanted. I grew up with a father that taught me all about tools,building, plumbing, all of it. If I'd hadn't done it before I would learn it online and do it. I miss doing those things. I can't cut in trim or around doors n windows with paint anymore. My hands aren't steady like before the accident. I tried to use a grinder months ago and got my thumb good. I was banned from power tools.

Now I come up with the projects and my hubby does them. He already took down a wall between two rooms and many other projects in our new home.

I really lost my focus here. ? Thanks for your patience. Well I think I will try things I didn't do before.

Exhausted in my brain,

Jace

Oh my, you have so much on your plate. :hug:

Hockey, are you still sick? Your mood says sick?

How much snow do you get where you live? We had a lot this year nut we are not in the typical weather pattern that comes down from Canada and Wisconsin & Minnesota, then through Illinois across Lake Michigan northern Indiana and into Michigan. We just miss it.

Jace

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Originally Posted by Living_Dazed (Post 1071723)

Yes, I tipped my head too far back (long story)and my PCS symptoms went nuts. If past experience holds, it could be up to 6 weeks until I'm back to my "normal."

In the winter, we get lots and lots of storms. It makes travel difficult and planning impossible. Nature can be one mean momma. :D

Sorry to hear about your tipping.

I would want a snow crawling machine with a front loader. I would love to play with heavy machinery.

Sometimes I really wish I could give all of you a big hug.
I've also become an avid bird watcher since PCS, it's so relaxing :)

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Originally Posted by redoslingberg (Post 1071977)

Sometimes I really wish I could give all of you a big hug.
I've also become an avid bird watcher since PCS, it's so relaxing :)

It's interesting how many TBI folks on the Forum have taken up bird watching. I find it inspiring to see the little chickadees and finches who manage to survive our brutal winters. Sometimes the wind has my feeders parallel to the ground - and they're still hanging on.

I agree Hockey! I actually told my husband about how many others on here seem to enjoy bird watching, because he picks at me about becoming an old lady before my time when he comes home to me sitting on the porch with binoculars, haha.

Redoslingberg,

Go ahead...hug me. Let's have a group hug :grouphug:

:) I really like the bird watching but when they aren't flying. I am going to get a finch feeder and hummingbird feeder. And a bird bath. I find it soothing. We have so many song birds. I can't see them but I can hear them.

Nice to meet you,

Jace

To you birders out there... don't forget the nice bird cams that are on the net now.

I am watching this one:
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channe...-tailed_Hawks/
It has been extremely interesting.
Today is a storm and Big Red is protecting her chicks.

I also hang a nesting dispenser (it is really a corn cob feeder which we use in the winter), with real cotton (they won't take polyester filler) and many birds come to it in the spring.
I have many photos now of them..some in my profile here and the one currently in my signature. When you put up a finch feeder, you will attract them and they may appreciate some nesting materials to help them with their nests.
This nesting dispenser is right out my window when I am online, so I watch it all day long..;)