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HI this is Wendy MacAskill here.. its now almost christmas and we have our tree set up.. looking beautiful. and we ordered new computer for my modem so we can replace the old slow one with a faster speed one .. we got a new HD LCD TV with built in cc and hope it works .. ihave yet to get ron something.. provided he gets home and takes me shopping.. as I dont drive..

Special Olympics MI Oakland Co-Area 15 Team Farmington

HI i started with my teammates for fun for Team Farmington Special Olympics for Basketball after Thanksgiving week and we practice once a week at Warner Middle school in Farmington Hills,MI. for about an hr from 630 to 730 pm. we do warmups and then run around the gym and then do scrimmage drills with the basketball try to throw it in the hoop.. ive gotten lucky a few times but im not perfect maybe if i was taller i could do that.. i hate to be a shortie ( 4ft 9 and a 1/4 ") i wish i was taller so i could reach for things. i was originally 5 ft 1 now my height has shrunk due to osteoporosis and taking Actonel for that every sunday along with glucosamine for bone strength and folic acid dietary supplements and Centrum Multivitamin/multimineral tablet every day at dinner and all my other meds. My Dr ,Dr silverman switched me to Carbatrol 300 mg twice a day its the r eal thing for tegretol 300 mg iwas taking generic 100 mg 6 tabs a day im still sleeping alot and hope the new med will make my gums less swollen and puffy . I wanted to learn to ski down hill with michigan adaptive sports but Ron is complaining iwill end up with a broken foot.. i dont think so as long as they have good ski instructor trained to work with disabled people to learn to ski michigan adaptive sports has various members with all kinds of disabilities and even two people who run the group for visually impaired also can use american sign language to communicate to deaf people or deaf blind so im looking forward to getting to use my skis and poles and just having fun.. if only ron would let me.. and he could learn too and lose some weight you can burn lotsa calories by skiing or any thin g physical. If i can only find away to get him away from the newspaper and the tv his brother Lloyd would stop picking on us two.