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   PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32  May 19 2019 MSC    
   TID: SBBSecho 3.07-Win32 r3.114 May 19 2019 MSC 1800   
   CS>Hi Daryl,   
      
   Hi, Carol...   
      
   CS>I have progressive DD.  If you'd like to chat on what to expect and how to   
   CS>keepit under control (reason for this echo was that type of thing), I'm up f   
   CS>it.   
      
     Well, when they diagnosed me with it (on a CT scan, checking for   
   something else), I reasoned "they shouldn't take away my disability   
   now". I have a hard time sitting at the computer for a long   
   time...whether for the BBS, ham radio, or other stuff. I also can't   
   stand for a long period of time...either at the sink, the toilet, the   
   stove, or in the shower, as my legs will spasm on me. Even though I've   
   lost 60 pounds since August, by only eating one meal (I can't afford   
   more than lunch meat sandwiches, and I'm burned out on them), and many   
   days, I don't even get 500 calories...not even 25% of the recommended   
   daily allowance.   
      
   CS>First thing is check the chair you use.  Is it fitted for YOUR frame to be   
   CS>properly ergonomic for YOUR condition?  This is the one workplace accomodati   
   CS>I need and was not bashful about as a contractor and later a government   
   CS>civilian.  (I'm a 26 uyear retired Navy E8).   
      
     First, thank you for your service. :) My late father served in the US   
   Navy Submarine Service during World War II, and was in the Naval Reserve   
   until he retired as an E-9 Master Chief Quartermaster 20 years before he   
   died from pancreatic cancer. My wife died not 3 months after he passed   
   on.   
      
     Second, there's a swivel chair in the back bedroom (I'm back at my   
   Mom's place, now mine, as she's dying in a nursing home east of Little   
   Rock)...but I'm in one of those steady metal chairs here at the BBS   
   computer. I only check her computer occasionally for software updates.   
   Otherwise, the computer for the BBS and ham radio tasks, plus my laptop,   
   are in the front room. It's rather cramped in here, but there's nothing   
   I can do about it.   
      
   Daryl   
      
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