[nfbmi-talk] upcoming surgery

[Pauline Smith]

...Thoughts and prayers will be with you and all the family. This is been quite a stretch for you first, for a sudden illness and then he have to go to attend to his mom and now you. Good luck with your surgery.

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> Original Message:
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> 
> From: Mary Wurtzel <marywurtzel at att.net> 
> Sent: March 4, 2013 6:38:24 PM
> To: 'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List' <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] upcoming surgery
> 
> Hello fellow Federationists,
> 
>  
> 
> I have had a few conversations about how we are all so different.  Some
> people are quite private about what is going on in their personal lives.  My
> kids always say that if they want to keep something secret to not tell it to
> their mom.  
> 
> Anyway, on March 13th I am having surgery on my left ankle.  Some of you
> know that I have worn a brace for a few years now.  ;I also got Filix who is
> a guide and a balance dog.  I have Felix on my left side and carry a support
> cane in my right hand.  I am blind because of being a premie.  I didn't know
> that I also have mild Cerebral Palsy which causes my left foot to stay ina
> apposition so that I am not able to walk with it flat on the ground.
> Perhaps fifteen years ago I began falling many times a week.  As time went
> on it got worse and worse.  I began to be   more afraid to walk by myself.
> I got a brace which helped some.  One year ago I got my guide-balance dog.
> I can go pretty fast now and all on my own.  Still I am willing to take a
> chance the my walking can improve after this surgery.  Sorry for being so
> long-winded.  I will be unable to walk at all for three weeks so am going to
> a rehab facility.  Once I am home, it could be as much as three months
> before I am fully healed.
> 
> One reason I wanted to tell about this, is that I wanted you to know why I
> am not with you at various activities.  Even more important to me, I ask for
> the praying guys to do some of that for me.  I am especially wanting to be
> back to rights to go to national convention.
> 
> Thanks to all of you who have been so helpful and loving to our family.  
> 
> Mary
> 
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