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I'm very glad you survived your coma. However as someone who has been on medication for major depression since 13 years old and has had a total of 42 electroconvulsive therapy treatments a few years ago and while I will never consent to that again I am on multiple medications to this day...

Sitting in our house guest's car taking my very ill cat to the vet and consoling my partner who just found out that her mother might have another aneurysm and we won't know until this afternoon.

Yes the bullies had perfect hearing and no disabilities that I know of. I never fought back except one time I finally cracked and lost it and I ended up expelled and home schooled after that. I still have psychiatric issues from the severity of abuse I received in school both from other kids and...

I mean special school for my autism. I'm HOH but not completely deaf yet. My hearing is getting worse though and my audiologist mentioned future cochlear implants but with reasonably bad auditory processing disorder and severe phobia of white noise I don't think I will ever want them. I think...

This is very true. I have very severe gerd, hypocontractile esophagus, non-functioning lower esophageal sphincter and hiatal hernia. I'm waiting for surgery to wrap part of my stomach around the bottom of my esophagus. I have to sleep in a hospital bed at home sitting up and cannot bend down to...

I went to a special school in grade 1 because I couldn't really talk properly yet. I loved it. I have dysgraphia so I wrote very badly but I was far above my age in maths and science. The school let parents come in part of the time so my mother used to come in and help me. I was doing grade 7...

Do you mean text over the internet or people in your city irl?

Cute pizza cutter but cuter pizza! Now my stomach is growling lol.

Hi. I hope this is the right section of the forum for this question or if not can someone tell me where. I'm wondering if anyone here uses a speech generating device like Allora 2 or Dynawrite? I'm seeing a speech pathologist at the end of the month about possibly getting one so I would like...

Sitting in bed with my beautiful sick kitty sleeping on my lap.

I'm feeling happy because my 11 year old cat who has been very ill the last few days has improved enough to climb onto my lap and fall asleep :) my legs are folded and left knee is hurting bad but I don't have the heart to move her.

This thread reminds me of the time years ago when my roommate was eating a pizza with jalapeños on it and our cat snuck up to steal some pizza and bit into one of them. Poor cat was hopping around hissing and in obvious distress. That in itself wasn't at all amusing but what was hilarious was...

That's so insulting!

I hate it when people on the phone get mixed up when I try to spell my name or street address and they get it wrong so they start yelling at me as if that will make my speech clearer. I guess my speech is getting worse but my partner and Skype friends say it's fine. Last time I had to spell my...

Thanks for writing it Sheri, verbiage or not. It is a really difficult topic.

I am terminally ill but I have lasted many years past my "use by date" despite at times that not seeming likely. I personally have chosen not to sign a NFR (or DNR) agreement and I am glad that I declined that when it was offered because otherwise I would never have lived to meet my best friend...

I'm really glad I came on here. I have very little "psychosocial support" irl. I have just one friend who I live with. I don't have any living family. My best friend who I live with has no other friends to regularly interact with but she does have family who she sees once a week. I never see...

I'm confused as to what to call myself. I have APD and moderate hearing loss but my hearing aids make me able to hear. I still have a fair amount of difficulty with understanding people when they're looking away from me but I don't consciously lipread either. I want to learn Auslan and when...

Well that killed the thread. Sorry I didn't mean any offense by the word. I'm so accustomed to hearing and using it that I didn't even think about it.

I started wearing progressive lenses when I was in my 20s. It was a bit weird at first but I got used to it and wouldn't cope without them now. I do still have single vision lenses but they are at the reading prescription so I can only use them if I am at the computer or reading something close...