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[DJ]

So, kids, have you got any yet? I have, it's simple, yet hard to utilise. My resolution is to ask out more girls than I did last year. That means I have to ask out a whole... 1 girl, damn I'm good...

[Blue Eyes]

That should be easy to surpass DJ, cause it's your New Years Resolution you have to do it

I've made mine to lose 5kg. Dunno why. I'm not over weight at all. Just seemed like something do to

[Jim]

OK, to knock this on the head.

And apologies in advance if this looks a bit like disease of the week.

Once upon a time, I was carefree
Then I drove my car into a tree

(That doesn't scan very well. But neither did my left leg after the accident)

As a result, my left foot was chopped clean off. I have been told that it was lucky that it was a clean cut; otherwise I could have lost the whole leg. I wouldn't have used the word lucky myself.

At the time, my wife had three young children to cope with, and then suddenly also had a grumpy invalid. I cannot begin to know or say how much I owe her.

Moving on apace, physiotherapy ensued and one marvellous morning, I was presented with a hard rubber foot and various "attachments", generally only seen on certain very expensive websites. They're such a pain in the backside (not literally, although that's probably another thing on the very expensive websites) that, whilst I know I should attend the incredibly boring physio sessions, I prefer to whizz about in the chair. People do tend to dive out of the way when they see me coming. It isn't catching, you know.

Although strangely, it's usually the people who've met me...hmm.

This is now getting very boring so I'll just mention quickly that at the end of 1999 a mole on my left arm was diagnosed as a carcinoma and I had to do a year's chemotherapy. Mole is now gone, but the drugs remain for the moment and sometimes turn the brain. The drugs don't work, they just make you worse...

So that's me sorry tale. I don't pity me (I did for quite a long time, admittedly) and I'm not asking you to either. C'est la vie. Remember, disability is not inability.

Right, I've gone on too long. I think it's time to get back to the subject before the server gets clogged up with tales of woe and my constant fury that folks talk to me as if I was three years old.

erm....Happy New Year

[Blofeld's Cat]

Jim (07 Jan, 2002 01:31 p.m.):
....I prefer to whizz about in the chair. People do tend to dive out of the way when they see me coming.

Jim, whatever you do don't hit another tree with it. The Druids will be upset.

So that's me sorry tale. I don't pity me (I did for quite a long time, admittedly) and I'm not asking you to either. C'est la vie. Remember, disability is not inability.

No, sorry, nice try. But I think Anna Scott still gets the last brownie.

Don't mind me Jim. I'm Australian.

[Jim]

Blofeld's Cat (07 Jan, 2002 02:14 p.m.):

Don't mind me Jim. I'm Australian.

Well, nobody's perfect

(joke - the wife's from Brisbane)

[Blofeld's Cat]

Jim (07 Jan, 2002 02:25 p.m.):

Blofeld's Cat (07 Jan, 2002 02:14 p.m.):

Don't mind me Jim. I'm Australian.

Well, nobody's perfect

(joke - the wife's from Brisbane)

As you said, nobody's perfect.

[James Page]

I've got anothoer 1.5 stone to lose, after shifting one from Sep->Dec (about 7K?).

And bedding a Bond girl of course. :-D

[Dr. Tynan]

I never follow my new years resolutions through. Though each year, I'm certain I will.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Jim (04 Jan, 2002 02:10 p.m.):
Taking my physiotherapy seriously and not just revert to the chair and wheeling myself around and being a menace.

This sounds serious, Jim.

Care to talk about your "situation"?

[scaramanga]

Dr. Tynan (03 Jan, 2002 10:53 p.m.):
I never follow my new years resolutions through. Though each year, I'm certain I will.

Me too. I know this isn't a big resolution, but every year I promise I'll stop biting my nails and I don't. So this year I haven't promised to stop. The nails win, I lose.

[Blue Eyes]

Well Jim I wish you luck. I hope you do manage to take it seriously. I'm sure that it will be hard and painful (most likely physically and mentally) work. But I guess you have to look at the end goal.

[Jim]

Taking my physiotherapy seriously and not just revert to the chair and wheeling myself around and being a menace.