Tips and Tricks for Single MS'ers Living alone and
MS Wheelchair user's.
Please E-Mail me any u might have ??
1) Intercom System for your front door  that works off the Phone.
A Home helper calling twice a week for 3 hours each call, to change bed linnen and cook a hot meal that will last for a couple of days.
Learn how to use ICQ or Messanger, communication systems free on the net.
Find MS Chatrooms on the Net.
5) Keyboard skills ... If u hold down CTrl and C u copy whatever u want, if u hold down CTrl and V u can paste it in to whatever document u want it in.
2nd Phone at computer Desk.
Copy everything, all documents that are to do with the Health Board, make a file in your Computer for easy access.
Maintainence Contract for Lift Repairs.
Wear an old comfortable pair of shoes with flat smooth souls that are easy to get on and off.
10) Wear T-shirts and Tracksuits mostly.
Cover the nuts with tape on the front wheels of your wheeler to avoid cutting your feet when going to bed.
Teach yourself how to build a website at Geocities.com
Magnetic bracelets do improve blood circulation.
Cut right down on eating and drinking Milk and Wheat.
15) Keep your old Net Buddies/ Cybermates as friends.
Phone in your shopping and have it delivered.
Have installed a level floor shower unit.
Two similar wheelchairs in case of breakdown, swapable parts.
Order in fast food deliveries from time to time.
20) Light and clock by your bed.
Give out spare front door keys to family and friends.
Drink plenty of Water with Blackcurrent juice.
Eat enough Bran or similar roughage to aid digestion.
Consider it a full-time job applying for the Disabled person's grant and organising works to be carried out.
25) Eat little and often rather than big meals.
Windows 98 at least with DVD, Printer, Zip drive, Scanner, Extra phone line, Vid-Cam, Speakers, Micraphone, PC Desk, Shelves.
Insurance Cover for Lift and Computer.
Big steady Armchair in sitting room, placed handy near by ..... Stereo, Radio, CD's, Tapes, Remote for TV and Video, Snacks, Phone.
Bored ?? check out VR Wired.com Computer Games.
30) Learn how to build web-sites and work from home, forget about the outside world, it's not made for u and is simply a frustrating reminder of what u miss.
Small TV, Phone and Radio by the bed.
Medical Cannabis Substitute ... Medical  Name .... Marinol.
It does not have the same benifits for your MS,
... Symptoms reduction  wise and quality of life wise, if compared to the Real Cannabis !
Maintain your Privacy, Pride, Self- Confidence, Dignity, Manners, Personal Hygene, at all times and don't allow people's curiosity to take these away from u over time, no matter what your problems are, u have a working brain, don't neglect it !!
Treat yourself well and your immune system will recover slowly and u will survive all MS attacks.
Self respect and motivevation Cures all.
Sleep on a Futon Mattress, it makes it easier to turn over etc. in bed.
35) Sit in an armchair when dressing in the morning, it gives u great support and stops u falling off the edge of the bed.
Don't stress yourself out by going places that don't have a Disabled Person's Toilet on the Premesis.
Avoid most or all Salt in your cooking and diet if possible.
Reduce or Stop if u can, all Dairy Food Intake.
People can be a drain on you without you knowing it,
have the right type of person around you at all times.
Make it a New Years Resolution for 2001.
40) Superguinn for Food Online ........ £5.00 Delivery charge.
From Fás Net Computer College Courses Online Link.
On long-Distance flights bring with u and take Asprin and Sleeping Tablets, they thin the blood.
Atlantic City/Homecare Shopping Link. .... £5.00 delivery charge.
Ask the Eastern Health Board for a Reclyner Armchair and use the leg extension as a exercise aid to stretch your leg tendons daily, as there is no service available from any of the support areas to help you exercise if you live alone, it's important in the long term if your not walking anymore.
45) If your lift ever stops or won't make it fully upstairs, have the hydrolic fluid level checked and refill, you can purchase it in most main garages, make sure whoever, doesn't overfill it and you probably have a leak somewhere.
If you are on anti-depressants you are not thinking normally, remember that !
Do not mix drugs from wherever, unless told to do so by your own GP.
Liberty Lifts ........ 4507971
C&S Plumming .. Steven McGovern .... 086-2512803/2820559/4598254
50) Trionics (Irl) Ltd .... Intercom system .... 2954863
Citizen's Information Centre ... Dun Laoghaire ..... 2844544
Ortho-Kinetics .... Reclyner Chairs ..... 4560088/4560092
Cook Fish in an oven proof dish in the oven, 1/2 hour, Smoked Cod, or whatever, and give up eating meat.
Eat Coleslaw, Vinegared Red Cabbage and pre cooked spuds fryed in a pan with a herb added, Organic spuds/Pototatoes and maybe some veg with a couple of knobs of butter if u want, as a main meal once a day.
It has changed my MS for the better.
I find it ok to eat crap once a day, like Chocolate/Biscuits etc.............
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