Dear Trisha, Please be gentle on yourself. I am sorry you lost your
materials. I have to think if you told them about this group they will
eventually find it.
You are right you do a very good job functioning since your brain surgeries.
Driving in Boston!! omg girl give yourself extra credit for that one. It
has been published how difficult that is to drive there. Karen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trisha Williams" <trisha4080@...>
To: <BrainSurgery@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:40 AM
Subject: [BrainSurgery] Do you ever get SO mad at yourself??


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> Friends,
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> Ok... time for me to vent...
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> I am SO mad at myself. Last week I took my trip up for the
> conference. It was great and I saw so many old friends and made many
> new ones. I was really proud of myself because, without using my
> cane OR HEADPHONES, I managed through the airport, flight, and car
> rental process relatively easily. I even managed through the Boston
> rush hour traffic through the city to get to the hotel. I was
> thinking how I've come a long way in my ability to organize and
> function.
>
> Then, the conference was great. I put out the poll results from our
> website which I'd compiled into graphs and summaries, laid out some
> business cards with the website address and placed a sign-up sheet
> for the website at the table. There were at least 20 names and email
> addresses on the list when I retrieved it and put it into my
> conference binder. I took great notes so I could post summaries of
> what I learned to share with you all. I picked up some literature on
> astrocytomas for a new mom dealing with her 14-yr-old son's brain
> tumor down in my area and was going to surprise her with it. I had
> it all together, see? I even got my favorites: pens and notepads.
> All put into my bag.
>
> Then, I checked out of the conference hotel and spent two days in a
> country inn in New Hampshire. It was beautiful.
>
> I got home and went to get my list to send invites to the emails of
> the people who signed up for the website. Hmmm. Not in the first
> bag. Hmmm. Not in the second bag. In fact, it was NOWHERE.
> Somehow I'd left everything from the conference behind.
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> After calling the hotels and rental car company, I finally had to
> accept that all my materials were gone forever. I feel so badly that
> all those people that left their email addresses will never receive
> anything from me.
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> I guess I needed a kick in the behind to remind me to pay closer
> attention to what I'm doing.
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> Anyway, I'm sad today and so disappointed in myself. Tomorrow's
> another day, I guess.
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> All for now,
> Trisha
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