Hi Kim!
Firstly, let me welcome you to the board, and anyone else I have missed this week! I usually answer just about every email, but between work, kids & pain the last two weeks or so, the email got away from me.
I work from home, so I am fortunate there, my father-in-law (bless his heart & cotton sox!) made me a great little table for when I am in bed, my whole lower abdominal area is just a mass of adhesions, and since surgery in April to remove my ovaries, I haven't been able to sit in an upright position for more that an hour or so, which means lots of comfy pillows & that half sitting up, half laying down kinda thing happening. (I talk like I write by the way....fast with drawing few breaths....hehehehe) So I do a lot of work in bed on my laptop, usually balanced on a pillow, but with summer coming on, it was starting to get a little warm with the added help from my "furnace"LOL . So now I have this neat table that sits over my lap, is angled towards me just slightly so that it is easy to use the key board, and I have space on either side for all my work! My daughters keep eyeing it off....my eldest thinks it would be very handy to do her homework in bed...I said NOT a chance! this is MINE!! LOL So that is my latest comprimise to this bloody aweful body I now have.
Sally is another one who works from her bed at times, she runs an Inn, so has walkie talkies, cordless phones etc, so she can direct her staff from the bed. We are such resourceful people aren't we? It is amazing to hear how each of us learns to comprimise & come up with ways to try and lead as normal a life as possible. My girls all have journals, and they write little notes to me, draw pictures that sort of thing, and then leave them on my bedside table. I read through them, and answer back with my own little note or picture, another comprimise to try & keep up with what they are all doing.
Have you put your story on the quilt yet? It is a really useful tool, to help others who come across this site to understand what we have been, and are going through, hopefully along the way we will stop someone from following the same fatal footsteps that we have. I read the post from Karen I think quite soon after it was posted & jumped straight into answering it! I couldn't believe what I was hearing...I see that it is still a very topical subject on the board.
I am writing just this one post today, because I have been sitting at the main computer all afternoon, scanning & doing artwork design for one of my clients newsletters, so pain is getting to the o oh stage.....
So to all my mates on the board, hope you have a great weekend, I will be painting the house with Shane if I can get this pain under control, and to Kim, and all the new members....welcome. We are a pretty friendly bunch & all moods are acceptable, we all need somewhere to vent, scream, yell, whinge, whine, cry, laugh, tell a joke, and there is always loads of understanding, love & hugs to go around!
If you want to know a little more about me, my story & photo on the quilt, thankfully I found this site early enough to stop the spiral of surgery after surgery, while my last one certainly removed some VERY bad areas of pain, I have been left with a load of new ones to take their place.
Well, Shane as just put a glass of wine in my hand....I LOVE Friday nights! hehehe so I will say ta ta for now.....
Love & warm gentle hugs
Jo (Australia)