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Denny
Gender: Male
Age: 57
Location: United States, Arkansas, Lavaca
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Member since: 06/09/2008
Profile last updated: 06/17/2008
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Age: 57
Location: United States, Arkansas, Lavaca
Connection: No connection
Member since: 06/09/2008
Profile last updated: 06/17/2008
Current Status: Offline
Network: 0 Friends
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Interests I'd like to share with others: Coffee, tea, and conversation
Disability
Disability Community - Member Type: Person with a Disability
Disability Type: Neurological
Disability Name: Channelopathy
Disability Description: Chemical ions do not transfer into and out of the muscles properly. Symptoms appear as Multipal Sclerosis. I am pretty much stuck in a wheelchair. Becauses of the tremendous fatigue and pain in my muscles I have to curtail excercise.
Assistive Technology: Wheelchair - Power (Electric)
Medications: 15 different meds
How has your disability changed your life...for better or worse?: This disability ended my military career and send me down a path that robbed me of much of my kids lives. Between the inactivity and the medication which has weight gain as a side effect, I feel doomed to constantly dieting to control not only my weight but my diabetes. I suffer from muscle spasms that make me breakout in cold sweats see stars. I have the benifit of an accessable van. I find it ironic, I've finally been able to get the van and now gas makes it too costly to drive. How's that for a kick in the pants.
How have you overcome obstacles?: I've learned with medication and the right mindset a person can overcome much if not most things that raise their ugly heads. I also have a stong faith in God. It's not the kind of faith that says "I am healed" but rather the kind of faith that says God is here with me as I go through this.
What is your most embarrassing moment?: I was embarrassed the first time my bladder failed. I was in church and suddenly, I wet myself. My wife Beverly was singing in the chior at the time. I had to get her attention to leave church, which drew even more attentiion to my plight.
What is your most triumphant moment?: Graduating college after my onset.
Disability Type: Neurological
Disability Name: Channelopathy
Disability Description: Chemical ions do not transfer into and out of the muscles properly. Symptoms appear as Multipal Sclerosis. I am pretty much stuck in a wheelchair. Becauses of the tremendous fatigue and pain in my muscles I have to curtail excercise.
Assistive Technology: Wheelchair - Power (Electric)
Medications: 15 different meds
How has your disability changed your life...for better or worse?: This disability ended my military career and send me down a path that robbed me of much of my kids lives. Between the inactivity and the medication which has weight gain as a side effect, I feel doomed to constantly dieting to control not only my weight but my diabetes. I suffer from muscle spasms that make me breakout in cold sweats see stars. I have the benifit of an accessable van. I find it ironic, I've finally been able to get the van and now gas makes it too costly to drive. How's that for a kick in the pants.
How have you overcome obstacles?: I've learned with medication and the right mindset a person can overcome much if not most things that raise their ugly heads. I also have a stong faith in God. It's not the kind of faith that says "I am healed" but rather the kind of faith that says God is here with me as I go through this.
What is your most embarrassing moment?: I was embarrassed the first time my bladder failed. I was in church and suddenly, I wet myself. My wife Beverly was singing in the chior at the time. I had to get her attention to leave church, which drew even more attentiion to my plight.
What is your most triumphant moment?: Graduating college after my onset.
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Religous Background: Christian-Protestant
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