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Post by coalminerswife85 on Nov 12, 2010 0:58:17 GMT -5
So all I know we vary in a wide range of ages and areas, so I started to wonder if there are others here like myself. I have spina bifida, and have limited mobility due to it, I think in a way that could be one reason I fell in love with the Walton's I sort of lived a "normal" childhood threw them. Just wondered if there were others with similar issues here as well.
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Post by Tracey on Nov 12, 2010 2:13:05 GMT -5
I was born deaf in both ears and also in love with the Waltons too. I grew up with hearing people until I met my college buddy who is also deaf and he's the one who taught me how to use sign language since I was his sidekick buddy to help him understand what our college teacher saying in our English class back in late 80's. He brought me to meet all of his deaf friends and that how I met my husband of eighteen years. He and my husband went to same high school. This Saturday night my husband and I, along with his brother and his wife are going to see Jon Walmsley's band The U.K. Beat.
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Post by Marilyn on Nov 12, 2010 13:06:15 GMT -5
I had to take early medical retirement from law enforcement and I have fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue and a little bit of PTSD. The Walton's are my drug of choice when it comes to escaping the every day stresses of this world and dealing with my medical issues. I love the Waltons!
Tracey, are you completely deaf and do you have to sign all the time?
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Post by Tracey on Nov 12, 2010 13:37:38 GMT -5
I had to take early medical retirement from law enforcement and I have fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue and a little bit of PTSD. The Walton's are my drug of choice when it comes to escaping the every day stresses of this world and dealing with my medical issues. I love the Waltons!
Tracey, are you completely deaf and do you have to sign all the time? I am completely deaf due to German Measles when my mother was carrying me in her first trimester. I read lips and talk very well too. Very rare use to sign language unless someone come to my bank and need help and I would be their interpret. During night time when my husband and I go to bed and we can't hear our children crying so they come to wake us up. Both of our children know a little of sign language.
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Post by Marilyn on Nov 12, 2010 14:00:52 GMT -5
So you have never heard the Walton's theme song? You have to lip read the shows?
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Post by coalminerswife85 on Nov 12, 2010 14:17:39 GMT -5
ssMarilyn I totally understand the Waltons being your drug of choice, last November, the day before thanksgiving I had Tethered spinal cord surgery as well as brain surgery to correct a chiari malformation both due to spina bifida, the results of those surgeries is severe nerve damage as well as chronic pain, I find I can put a dvd of the waltons in when things are really bad and it seems to take my mind off things.
Tracey, I've never gotten to see the U.K. Beat but would love to would you happen to know a schedule of concerts? Ifso I would love to try to see them some time.
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Post by Tracey on Nov 12, 2010 14:24:24 GMT -5
So you have never heard the Walton's theme song? You have to lip read the shows? I still have no clue of the Walton's theme song and I asked my eleven years old son and he said it's only music with no words. We have closed caption on our television for us to read the words on the screen.
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Post by Tracey on Nov 12, 2010 14:29:05 GMT -5
ssMarilyn I totally understand the Waltons being your drug of choice, last November, the day before thanksgiving I had Tethered spinal cord surgery as well as brain surgery to correct a chiari malformation both due to spina bifida, the results of those surgeries is severe nerve damage as well as chronic pain, I find I can put a dvd of the waltons in when things are really bad and it seems to take my mind off things. Tracey, I've never gotten to see the U.K. Beat but would love to would you happen to know a schedule of concerts? Ifso I would love to try to see them some time. My cousin also have spina bfida too and is confined to wheelchair. Here is the schedule of the U.K Beat www.theukbeat.com/seeus.htmMostly he played in LA which is a quiet drive for us to see him play. When his band is playing near our city we definelty come and watch him. His wife Marion is so friendly to chat with.
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Post by coalminerswife85 on Nov 12, 2010 16:57:33 GMT -5
Thanks so much for the info Tracey.
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Post by Marilyn on Nov 12, 2010 17:20:44 GMT -5
coalminerswife85.. I bet you're like me, and when you put that Walton's DVD on, you're transformed into the screen and into their lives. I feel like I'm in the house, in the barn, standing by the counter in Ike's store. I've always had a vivid imagination, partially due to also having dyslexia, and the Walton's are a true mental and emotional escape. They definitely will be a huge part in your successful healing! Keep watching them!
Tracey, you are an amazing woman....truly an inspiration for all! Some people have perfect body functions, yet whine about this and that in their lives and for no valid reason, yet I have never heard you say a thing about your deafness. The Walton's theme is beautiful, but if you haven't heard it, you won't miss it. Just watching the show is enough!
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Post by coalminerswife85 on Nov 12, 2010 17:55:31 GMT -5
The Waltons are a wonderful escape for me, I too have a great imagination could be why it feels like as strange as it sounds to some people that the waltons are a real family that I have came to love over the years like you would a family that live down the street from you.
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Post by bucky on Nov 12, 2010 20:36:30 GMT -5
I have cancer and I find that the Waltons gives me a time-out from stress. It's the ambiance of the time and the countryside that I sink into - like finding a warm spot in the sun. It also reminds me of my own childhood in some ways because I grew up in a rural community. I love watching them do simple things, like walking down a dirt road and I also like this site and the way it's run. None of the constant arguing or mean-spritedness that seems to permeate so many fan sites.
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Post by Marilyn on Nov 12, 2010 20:43:10 GMT -5
You hit the nail on the head bucky. I never could find the exact words, but you said it "A warm spot in the sun". That's exactly how the Walton's feel to me. I'm a rural child as well and still love the feel of dirt and grass under my bare feet.
davidm here also has cancer. You two might be able to connect on some things...it's said that a positive attitude increases one's chance of recuperating. The Walton's are definitely a mood booster!
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Post by coalminerswife85 on Nov 12, 2010 20:54:49 GMT -5
I wonder if Earl Hamner has any idea of the "medical" value the waltons have for so many of us. Speaking of which heading to the University of Virginia for a check up tuesday, hoping to stop by the waltons muesum I've never been.
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Post by bmcgill on Nov 13, 2010 0:42:46 GMT -5
Well yes, I use it for therapy too. I just wonder why sometimes people can't understand my illness like they do everybody else. I have admitted that I deal with depression and Anxiety and have made comments on here that I souldn't have and I apoligize for that but that is in the past. I have inherited most of my problems but was also raised in a very disfunctional family. The Waltons is the way it should have been and wish it was with me growing up in a large family. The Waltons is what is in my heart, inside me but it just wasn't that way. I'm working on it, thanks to my loving wife. What is inside a person's heart is what counts, not what comes out with frustration or anger or whatever. I wish I had of been born 50 years earlier. Back when things were so much similiar and people had more morals.
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