[Blind-rollers] How do You Cook?

Fri Feb 10 03:34:31 UTC 2017

Hi, Maureen I live in New Iberia. Leanne, thanks! It is encouraging to
hear your testimony! I'm sure things will work out once I start
getting some answers and a definite action plan. I just have to get
out of here, because I don't even want to die here. You are right. I,
too, look forward to going to live with God! It is just hard depending
on others because I've learned, without them saying, they do get tired
and just move on; physically and/or emotionally. That's been hard to
deal with.

On 2/4/17, Maureen Pranghofer via Blind-Rollers
<blind-rollers at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi
> Please vent it's healthy.  What town do you live in?
> Maureen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danielle Ledet via Blind-Rollers
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2017 4:15 PM
> To: Blind wheelchair users list
> Cc: Danielle Ledet
> Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] How do You Cook?
>
> I do not know what kind of shelters in this town they have. It's gonna
> be an option though If things continue this way. I found some
> resources and so far getting a ride has proven near fruitless so I'll
> be on my own to travel to and from them; though, I think I can qualify
> for medical transportation which will at least aleeviate some of my
> burden once in a while. I can't go anymore. I have reached down as
> much as I can and I have been at the end of my patience and
> compassion. I do not understand why those who can do more and afford
> more, want/need to do what I'm doing and pay what I'm able to pay. SO,
> it looks like I am doing less, which is true I don't have the stamina
> to constantly clean after everybody here nor do I have the funds to
> move around town as frequently as they can, and I can't contribute
> financially like they can. So I only get $20 in Food Stamps, and my
> brother and Mama are of the opinion that I should buy packs of meat to
> contribute, or do not eat what they buy. Well, family packs of meat
> cost $8-$10 each. So I buy it, eat one time and feed everybody else,
> then what am I supposed to have the rest of the month? That's the kind
> of insanity I deal with daily! Apparently, last month I got mail from
> Social Security at my momma's other house and somebody marked Return
> to Sender on the letter and it went back. So now I still await my SSI
> check for this month. Granted, my Mama does not work by choice, her
> husband does, and my brother just got a job, his girlfriend does, but
> they are able. How can a person at a disadvantage give what they do
> not have and can not get?
> Yes I have Medicaid/Medicare, just need to figure out how to access
> these services. When I ask the people in here who should know about
> the services and common places in this town, especially since they
> drive, they act just as helpless as me and give vague nonanswers.
>
> Thanks Jen. Yes there are complexes like this next town over; well,
> about half hour away. Pretty much none of their apps are online,
> though. Maureen, I think that would be a good investment, planning to
> get a microwave, and I already have a crockpot. I see no need to stay
> here and be tortured! Thanks everyone! Changes are gonna be made, they
> must! albeit slowly because my check is eaten thru fast.
>
> My apologies for this long post, and thanks for letting me vent.
>
>
> On 2/4/17, Maureen Pranghofer via Blind-Rollers
> <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello
>> I was so sad to learn that your condition is getting worse.  Cooking from
>>
>> a
>>
>> chair depends mostly on the access of your kitchen.  WHen I became a
>> chair
>> user I virtually stopped cooking because neither the stove or sink was
>> accessible.  I had my PCA's do it and you may have to look at getting a
>> personal care attendant. If however, you have a counter you can wheel
>> under
>>
>> by using an electric frying pan it is very possible to cook.
>> Maureen
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Danielle Ledet via Blind-Rollers
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:36 PM
>> To: blind-Rollers at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: Danielle Ledet
>> Subject: [Blind-rollers] How do You Cook?
>>
>> Hello Rollers,
>>
>> It is apparent to me lately; experiencing numbness in my hands and
>> feet, nearly sliding out of chairs when getting up, experiencing
>> stiffness in my steps orsomething like that, and feeling like my
>> muscles are sending off steam when I am walking, that I will probably
>> be sitting down for good at most, if not, all times. Problem is, this
>> place is not anywhere equipped for that and I am being literally,
>> booted out the door with nowhere to go. My Mama has already repeatedly
>> said she can't/would never deal with a handicapped person; meaning
>> someone wheelchair-bound that she will have to help. She has always
>> said this, and I wasn't considered handicapped, to her, because she
>> could show me how to do things, and then set it and forget it!
>> However, I have mbarked on collecting recipes again so I can start
>> cooking for myself, I guess sooner,somehow, rather than later. So, my
>> question is how do you all cook from a wheelchair? And, how do you
>> manage in a home that is not wheelchair accessible with this and other
>> tasks of daily self-care. I am worried especially about self-care.
>> This a split-level home and I am, forcibly being removed, and I could
>> not even prepare, so I know they won't welcome mobility transportation
>> and the need to help out with that, nor will anything be rearranged.
>> They think that a disability check should suffice, and should meet all
>> my monthly needs and it DOES NOT! I am looking for work, and looking
>> for options to relocate and supplement my Food Stamp allotment wich is
>> inadequate as well. She would not vouch for me and say I pay her rent,
>> and others applied with this address and got it first. I don't know
>> why they just didn't consider my SSI status, as they should have, and
>> awarded me the full amount for a single person, though. I have no
>> reason really to laugh and smile right now! Hope to hear from you!
>>
>> --
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>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
>> tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will
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-- 
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will
have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Email: singingmywayin at gmail.com