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Just One Chocolate Fudgecicle Last Night And Two In The Morning......

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:39:46 GMT

We went to the Veteran's Breakfast and I ate two large pancakes and some hot sausage. Then, I had a cup of double fudge, hot cocoa, Not contented with this slow form of suicide,..I went on a chocolate fudge ice creamcicle binge,.which lasted most of the afternoon.

Then, I broke open the box of chocolate fudgecicles............

Need I say more about binging on fruit,..oh passionate binging on FORBIDDEN fruit?

I was bent over in agony last night. Did I stop there?

No!

I drank a can of Pepsi 0.

By two AM,...I had HOT LAVA coming out of my mouth:

.................pure stomach acid!!!

I thought that I was going to have to take a trip then and there to the ER. I ate a half a bottle of TUMS,..instead.

Needless to say,..I didn't make it to Deaf Church this Sunday morning!!

We Are Set To Go To A Veteran's Day Breakfast This Morning!!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:19:44 GMT

We are set to go to a Veteran's Day breakfast this morning but I don't feel very hungery. I have a terrible burning in my throat. Guess that I'll have to take another look at that GERD and Barrett's syndrome diet that I've been trying to ignore

Life without chocolate.....will be a sort of mini-hell..

I'll never learn.....(The Repost That My son Will Hate!!)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:44:42 GMT

REPOST:

My son's girlfriend's underwear caught fire in our clothes drier!!

And I just COULDN'T keep my mouth shut!!

I just HAD to make a joke about "little Miss Hot Pants!!"

And I WOULD have to come out singing a little song about.."Tails Afire...."

Son doesn't sppreciate my sense of humor any more!

Kids,... These Days!! A Father And Son Conspiracy?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:23:34 GMT

Son says, "I want love,..wild, passionate, crazy, romantic love!!"

My answer: "Hey kiddo,...so do your dad and I!!"

He looks at me in disbelief,.."O-k,..mom!! You were engaged seven times before you were married. Then,..you ran away and married a man, my Dad, whom you met in a mall after you used a deaf blind woman as a chaperon!!

You and Dad ran away on a Senior citizens bus tour and got civilly married in an Wild West Amusment Park with two guys, dressed like Indians,.. that Dad pulled in off the street to serve as witnesses!! Then,..you were married in front of three hundred deaf people in a deaf church by a deaf Jewish guy after a Catholic priest and a Baptist minister refused to marry you to Dad in a religious ceremony!!

Three of the guys to whom you were engaged came UNIVITED to your church wedding and one of them blubbered all the way through the wedding!!

And Dad says that I don't know HALF that happened to the two of you while I was little cause I either can't remember it or you hid it from me!!

And from what my aunts told me,..you haven't even STARTED to let Dad and I in on what you did in Jaimaca with the thirty guys and only two other girls on that ecological tour that you took in 1970!! I know gramma used to threaten to tell me what you did on that trip to get you to do what she wanted you to do when I was little!! "

"I was just a silly hippy college girl,..then!" I muttered.

"Hey mom!! You've HAD your share of kookie wild love,.Now,..it's MY turn!!" yells the boy.

"Your Dad talks too much!!" says I,.."Besides,...."

"Nevermind!!" says the boy,..Nevermind!!"

What's going on in my son's life that he's not telling about!!??????

We are like farmers with our past actions as the seeds that we plant along the way as we lead our lives. What sort of harvest do I have to look forward to from some of my past escapades??

For The Columbus Lady,...Yes,..I Worked With Deaf Children And Deaf Blind Children.....

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:59:11 GMT

Yes,..I worked with quite a few deaf and deaf blind children....besides living with Nellie Zimmerman.

No,..I respect the names and the privacy of my former clients and I will NOT reveal the names and addresses of those people to anyone nor the work that I did with them...unless I am telling a story about something that happened and even then,...unless the person,.like my deaf blind friend Nelie,...has passed on,..I will NOT intentionally reveal anything that went on between my clients and myself as far as teaching or interpreting.

People with disAbilities have a right to privacy too,..you know!!

This is for the lady from Columbus, Ohio,....who asked for this site address,...again!:

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:53:04 GMT

Are these the pictures that you wanted for your newsletter? Just email me and let me know,..and don't forget to send me a picture of yourself!! This friendship goes both ways,..you know!! Heh!!

Nov. .3, 2009,

Ma'am:

So you read "Walking Free: The Life Of Nellie Zimmerman?" What do I think about that? Well,..that's nice. I am glad that you did. I hope, however, you don't expect me to be the exact SAME person that you read about in that story,..which took place over thirty years ago,..cause I'm not that girl anymore... I am a mature lady of sixty years.

And the thought of fame,..while it seems pleasant enough,..isn't what really rings my chimes!!

"I'm not a famous person,

I never wanted to be!!

I'd rather read a book!!

I'd rather climb a tree!!"

You told me that you had a friend,..who didn't believe you when you said that you had gotten more than two words out of me.

O-k! One,.two...words. That makes three words.

Yes, lady,..I'm sure that you friend saw this. Just tell her to stay home and leave me alone!! Why do you think that I disappeared for over twenty years from public view? I talk to my local friends,..but that's about it!!

I appreciate your letter.,ma'am,..but..I choose "the path less traveled"..by other folks,..preferably.

I know that you didn't call me cause I had my phone disconnected.

(Hint! Hint!!) We are unlisted now!!

Hubby and I aren't rolling in dough, but we like our life together well enough!!

Just tell your friend to go up to the museum, pay the fee, and go stare at the exhibit that you saw about Nellie and I ,..all you want!! I am not there!! Hell! I didn't even know that there was an exhibit!!

I am not normally a cold or unfriendly person, but I'm certainly no social butterfly either,..and I'm certainly not a tourist attraction. There is a cheese factory down the road, that was built for that purpose.Still. here is the link that you requested.

Here is the original link that I posted for you the first time that I answered your letter online:

www.columbuscolony.org/recentact/nellie.htm

First of all,..I want to thank you for your lovely letter..if you are reading this blog.

Secondly,..I want to tell you that as much as I appreciated your lovely letter,..I am not the saintly person that you described in that in that letter. I am a fat, middle-aged woman with sight and hearing problems,..who loves science fiction and cats and walks around..wearing old ragged blue jeans and a Budwieser sweatshirt,.in an insignificant little semi-rural village,..which is right on the edge of Amish Country, in North East Ohio.

I worked with Nellie a long time ago and the only reason that I told about my work with Miss Nellie Zimmerman was because I was persuaded that the story must be told because it was significant in changing the lives of Deaf, Blind, and Deaf Blind folks. I told you that I would reply to your letter in my blog and so I have.

Thanks again for your kindness.

.....Stanelle

Barret's Syndrome Is A Form Of GERD Disease.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:23:34 GMT

There are no symptoms to it. The cells in the esophagus stard to change their form as they are exposed to stomach acid and become more like the cells in the lower intestine.

I gotta research this some more!

On to other interests! Reaching and teaching the son!!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:33:39 GMT

Above is a picture of the guy, on the right of me,..who is known as "crabshack,"online To the left of me is my son, who is known as "sonnyboy2,." online

I guess son is right. I see life in big, bold, wonderful strokes and try to find the words to describe everyone else's life in the same way that I see it!!

Well, enough "foo-fooing" around. I have a magazine article to write and won't see a cent till I get it done.

Most importantly,..how can I find the words that will capture my son's attention and will help him understand what all of the things, that were in my last post, and what those events were really about? Will he even care about those issues? To bring about changes in this world, one must be able to reach the young people of all catagories and help them understand the why and how of each other's way of thinking!!

Son says that my blog is full of rhetoric, but his friends at Kent State read my blog. And I know that no one else,..not even at his college, is discussing these issues with this group of young people. If son's friends see my online name as part of a blog's comments on certain issues,..usually I can talk son and his friends into going back and reading that blog and discussing it with with me or amongst themselves.

Is this such a bad thing?

Or am I supposed to sit idly by and leave a group of young people, college students, who might one day be able to make needed important decisions in this world,..go about their daily lives ignorant of the changes in contemperary events that their counterparts are making? No one else is making an effort to educate these young people as to what is going on. I want my son and his friends to actually sit down and think about what is going on in this world..even if at times,..it is not written up in the newspaper. My writings are full of rhetoric and some self-importance, but these writings are making these young folks think about what is actually happening around them. I believe that is what is important,..in spite of any online criticism that I might recieve.

I have to use big bold words with that son of mine. He thinks in a big bold way and speaks of traveling to Japan and Korea next summer and studying the languages and histories of those countries. I really do believe that he will do this. He has left my straight forward and plain way of thinking far behind.

cRAZY oR nOT cRAZY??

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:27:41 GMT

Are the Deaf undergoing their own Civil Rights Movement?

I would say , "Yes!"

Is America aware of this?

No,.....

Because of the "manualism versus oralism" power struggle in deaf and Deaf education. Very few Hearies" are aware of the "manualism versus oralism" struggle in Deaf education. Very few "hearies" even know what "manualism" or "oralism" is!!

Can you,..Stanelle,..speak?

Yes, I speak quite well with my voice and I have done quite a bit of public speaking in my lifetime!!

How did you learn to speak?

I learned to speak the same way that any hearing child learns to speak,..by hearing my parents speak. My mom didn't send me to the hospital when I was very sick when I was about eleven years old. I had a fever of about 105 degees for an extended period of time. That rendered me as I am today.

My parents pushed me to keep communicating with my voice and I did so. That doesn't make such communication any easier.

Other questions concerning discrimination:

Why would an interpreter for the Deaf get angry with me because I can occasionally use the telephone when I have a huge amount of antibiotics in my system to ward off the worst of my inner ear infections?

An Example Of Gross Discrimination:

Why would psychologists and psychiatrists, unskilled in American Sign Language, feel that it was "O-K" to administer IQ and other mental health tests to deaf children and adults without benefit of an interpreter?

YES!

Why do certain other mental health professionals feel justified in giving certain written and oral psychological tests to deaf individuals without thought as to what differentiating lingistics skills would make a difference in the test results for the hearing impaired individual?

When I was working in the "institutes for the mentally retarded," here in Ohio,..why did we run across so many "dual diagnosis" deaf kids,..who were labeled as retarded and really weren't retarded? They had been thrown into the "pits,"..mental institutions, without benefit of a hearing test because they didn't respond to sound when they were almost infants and never had a chance!!

Do you think concerned mental health professionals were the people responsible for the Ohio Law that is requiring that all Ohio new born infants be tested for their hearing on the day that they are born? No! It was a group of concerned audiologists, who were concerned that so many "retarded" kids,..who were lucky enough to be scheduled for hearing tests,..were not retarded at all!!

Those MR kids were actually deaf kids, hearing impaired children, who were labeled as "retards,"..because mental health professionals used to use "is not responsive to sound" as a criteria for judging if a child,..sometimes barely two years of age,..was mentally retarded or not!!

Isn't that gross discrimination?

Did you ever hear a PhD say to you,.."Sign language? Why should I "play that game?" If I SAY this person is crazy or retarded,..they are crazy or retarded!! Why should I learn sign language? I won't play that game!!"

I would think that if another person's life depended on "playing that game," the mental health professional should PLAY that game,"..if the deaf individual has no other means of communication and that person's life and freedom depends on the communication between that professional and his client!! It is no game!!

Life is not a game!!

"Life is more than what you see!"

REPOST FOR S.R. : Went bowling with son. He was not impressed with my bowling skills!

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:07:54 GMT

REPOST FOR S. R.

I WENT BOWLING WITH MY SON AND HIS FRIENDS. THEY WERE NOT IMPRESSED WITH MY BOWLING SKILLS!!:

Not all of my balls were gutter balls and I did knock down two pins at one time with only one ball!! Now that isn't bad is it?

I'll be a better bowler when I get my new glasses!! Then,..son won't have to point me in the right direction to roll the bowling ball!!

I've learned some important rules for bowling: .

1. You are supposed to hit the pins and not the other bowlers!

2. You are supposed to only bowl in your own lane!

3. Never, NEVER do a wind-up pitch with a bowling ball!

4. Don't get mad when someone else wants all the attention when they get a "strike," and everyone stops watching you after you have successfully "stacked" six bowling balls one on top of another. Yes,..you set a new Guiness record, but he has made a STRIKE!!

5. Don't panic if your thumb gets caught in the bowling ball holes, and son goes crazy as you bodily follow the ball down the bowling alley!!

6. No,..you may only count the pins that the BALL has hit when you come to the end of the bowling alley with the ball,..that your thumb is stuck in!! The pins you bodily knock over cannot be added to your score!!

7. Son says that a bowling alley is a good place to 'score" and not only on paper!!

8. Never eat Kentucky Fried Chicken betweens turns to bowl!! Greasy fingers will cause the ball to slip off your fingers and the other bowlers don't appreciate it when your ball goes flying throught the air at them instead of down the alley!!

9. Stay away from your son when he gets mad at you for stealing his bowling team away from him as you show them the proper way to stack bowling balls!!

10. Do not,..and I mean this in all sincerity,..DO NOT criticize your son's driving skills as you are driven home in icy silence by said son!!

(And yes,..this is a joke list of bowling rules. However, son says that he will not take me bowling again till I up my liability insurance.

.............And son has learned to successfully stack four bowling balls!:D)