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Hello :) I'm new at this forum. Stumbled on it while surfing the net. I am from South-Africa and I am bedridden the last 5 years. I have AS in a very bad form and I broke my back 5 yrs ago. My whole story and pictures is on my web site. I started to read trough all the post. Highly interesting community you have here :) I'll visited this board a lot now. Greetings To become a master, you first have to be a servant. Read my life story at http://wynand.za.netEdited by cheerful on 01/30/05 02:11 PM (server time).
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Wynand,
Welcome to KickAS! I had a quick read of your site and I wish you well. I use Wireless Broadband as well, I move alot are you using Navini wireless modems?
David
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You have an amazing story and its people like you that give me hope. God Bless. Christopher  "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
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Hey ppl :)
Dave I have normal wireless, don't know what they call it. :)
Christoper: Thank you for your kind words.
Warm greetings
To become a master, you first have to be a servant. Read my life story at http://wynand.za.net
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HI Wynand,
Greet website and great attitude towards life... your wife is a treasure.
I think you will like Kickas... much to learn here, a lot of support and a lot of good people. Each of us has something to offere at this site, which is what makes it so great.
Take care and hope to see more of you around here.
Tim
Why are there so many songs about rainbows,
And what's on the other side?
AS may win some battles, but I will win the war.
KONK - Keep ON Kicking
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Hi Wynand,... and Welcome to KA! Yours is quite a story and was a lot to suffer through without medical care for so long. Yes, it is a great community of AS folks in here. I'm glad you've found us and plan to keep coming back! Cheers! mig
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Wynand,
What a neat website, I admire you for telling us your life story. You are an
amazing person to be without medical care with AS. Your wife is quite amazing
also, give her my regards.
I wish you the best in all that you do and your attitude is great.
Welcome to KA ,you are already one of the family..
God Bless,
Maxine
"Mike's Mom"
"Mike's Mom"
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Hello :)
Thank you all for your kind and most welcome greetings. I really feel at home already. Yes, were we live it's a bit difficult to get medical attention.
South-Africa has the best training for medici in the world. Even our nurses are highly recommended everywhere. Some of our senior sisters (my mom in law was one) studied longer that certain countries doctors have.
But nowadays they go and work in other countries, cause the pay is much better. Thus leaving South-Africans with only a skeleton team. Ppl like me, staying in rural areas suffers the most.
But by the Grace of God, I can still have a life with dear friends and family that loves and supports me.
Thank you all for your visit to my web site and the welcome party :)
To become a master, you first have to be a servant. Read my life story at http://wynand.za.net
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Wynand, Welcome to KickAS. You really remind me of my own country India, where the pick of the lot seek fortune abroad, but we still have more than a skeleton left here. Still, we do have some of the best facilities available here, but few can avail of it due to geographical and monetary constraints. I read your story, and you are really a brave and a role model for a would be kickaser. Keeping kicking.... Ram  It is everything that we know and know not. It is the absolute entity the closest terrestrial approximation of which is the "infinite" universe.
It is pure knowledge, truth and being infinite. --- from the Upanishads
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Your all most kind. :)
I believe most ppl in my postition would've done the same. I became the class joker and the "Happy man" on years of age when i got AS. Not long ago I realized why. Not only is happiness and positive attitude good for us, but I think I did it to get the attention of my illness.
I was only diagnosed on 16, a full 6 years after I got AS, and that time I was'nt sure of anything. Postive thoughts and a bubbling personality kept me going.
Isn't it strange that so many, nearly all disabled persons have such a happy attitude? I saw this over the years. Ppl in pain and that's in really "bad" shape. Adults and children alike. That taught me a great lesson in life.
Pro 17:22 "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
To become a master, you first have to be a servant. Read my life story at http://wynand.za.net
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