Living with Disabilities

I have MHE. The simplest way to explain it is that my body is filled with benign bone and cartilage tumors. My skeleton is also deformed. I don't have full range motion in all my joints. My joints are also breaking down because they are bearing weight in a manner they were not designed to do. This would have happened even if i wasn't overweight, just not as fast. When I move my muscles move over tumors. The things you do without thinking about hurts. If you do something that hurts multiply that pain by 5 on a good day.

I'm not in a wheel chair all the time. I don't own one but I use them when I go shopping. I can't use non narcotic pain medicine. It doesn't work and weed is not only legal but I don't believe in it. Believe it or not you can use narcotics and not be high or mentally addicted to them. They are a means to make my life as 'normal' as possible. Without them I wouldn't be able to do much more than watch tv.

I also know why I over eat Beck... it's call not watching what I eat. Saying that one gained weight because they ate to much doesn't mean one stuffs their face with everything they can reach. It was a simple statement that I ate more calories than my body needed and I was admitting it.

I have an eating plan that has worked for me before. I will be using the pool next door. I have found workouts for people who sit in chairs. I can't do yoga but I stretch and when I feel upto it I'll try to get up and dance for the length of a song.

I appreciate the spirit in which everyone posted here but I wasn't looking for a rescue. I was looking for people who either also had difficulties or who would like to work together.

Sharon I wrote most of this before you posted. I edited it a little bit to give a little more explanation of my limitations. If anyone wants to find out something new just google the letters MHE. My skeleton looks like a humanoid space alien. I thank you and Pedidiva for the concern and respect. While a disabled person my not be able to do a specific one thing there is going to be something that they can do, even if it is more difficult and takes longer for them to do. Disabled doesn't me unable.

(i noticed a typo in my previous post. Legal should have been illegal. Pot is illegal where I live.)

I won't lie and say that mhe is easy to live with but there are people who have problems that my be less debilitating and more mentally damaging. I once saw a documentary on a boy with sweaty hands and had to be thankful that I have mhe. At least with mhe I'm not embarrassed to reach out and shake someone's hand.

I've lost weight before. in 2004 I lost 42 pounds. The first 30 I lost sitting on my *kitten*. I wasn't actively working out until the last 12. A few years ago I lost 20 pounds on the method I will use this time, high protein, high fiber. I had great energy and never felt deprived.

I've got my head and my heart in the right place this time around. I've got the plan and the will to execute it. I would love for my activities to be bellydancing, classical fencing, mountain hiking... that's just not going to happen. So if you can do all of those things, then do them and enjoy the hell out of them because I will most likely have to take extra pain medication or a muscle relaxer just to get to sleep tonight because I spent half an hour doing low impact aerobics in the pool.

Thanks for asking pedidiva, your concern is appreciated.