Who Hit the Down Button
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Life always has its ups and downs, but for those who struggle with physical handicaps, the downside is often daunting. Struggling with post-polio syndrome, the author of this encouraging book openly shares the challenges she has been forced to confront—facing them head-on. This is a useful book for anyone living with a chronic illness or disability.
Jean E. Holmes
Physical Therapist
Phyllis Porter Dolislager
Phyllis Porter Dolislager is the author of ten books. She is a writing consultant and gives writing workshops encouraging others to write about significant birthdays, anniversaries, and family memories. Lessons Learned on the Farm, a family memoir, is her best-selling book. She and her husband split their time between Tennessee and Florida.
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Who Hit the Down Button - Phyllis Porter Dolislager
Who Hit the Down Button?
Life with a Chronic Illness or Disability
By Phyllis Porter Dolislager
Smashwords Edition Copyright 2011 Phyllis Dolislager
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While reading this short book I found myself wishing that this woman was a next door neighbor, an easily accessible friend to talk with and influence my life with her gentility and acceptance. I had polio too, and much of what she has written here about her life after polio parallels my own, especially her feelings of insecurity and aloneness. Phyllis has lived her life with grace; I've lived my life fighting the damn effects of the disease. Her attitude has been better, and I encourage you to read this book to find out why.
Robert Arnold
Polio Survivor
Phyllis Dolislager writes from a heart filled with a lifetime of struggling with a progressive physical condition. In the face of such a challenge, she raised a family, served on the mission field, and has written volumes that speak to the heart of other struggling people. Feeling uplifted is not an option for readers of this work; it will be automatic.
Dr. David R. Miller
Psychologist
This book is an act of love. As a life-long dedicated communicator and teacher, Phyllis Dolislager shares her experiences of post-polio, along with those of her supporters, with heart-warming—sometimes heart-wrenching—anecdotes and lessons that instill hope and encourage conscious choice in patients and caregivers alike. Incorporating discussion questions and meditation topics for everyone with a chronic illness or physical disability, Phyllis’s spirit and vitality shine through her writing. She inspires as she writes. She is a life example to us all.
Gail Powell, PhD
Massage Therapist, Chronic Illness
Author and former college professor, Phyllis Dolislager is no stranger to the unexpected challenges faced by those who live with an on-going physical disability. As a polio survivor, Phyllis balanced her life as a wife, mother and working professional with a permanent physical limitation. In more recent years, the stress of this balancing act
pushed her to a crisis point of exhaustion. Honest and homespun, this true account of a soul-searching transition offers something for anyone facing the panic of physical decline.
Tom VanderMolen, Paraplegic
Veteran Radio Broadcaster
FOR
Mollie Thompson, Debbie Perham, Becky Kozalinsky,
Jane Irelan, Luz Rodriguez, Wanda La Lance,
Ruth Koster, Jane Mades, Donna Dieck
All the members of the
Post-Polio Support Group of Palm Beach County
All those who have a chronic illness or disability
Table of Contents
Preface
Who Pushed the Down
Button
Who’s in Control?
We Are Survivors
Special People: Caregivers
Doctor’s Appointments and Relationships
Developing Relationships via Email
Fatigue: the Life Robber
Less Stress, More Energy
My Church was too Fragrant
The Glass is Half Full!
When did it become an Effort to Socialize?
Miracles Can Be Handicap Accessible: Howard Mades
My Outstanding Friend: Jody Taylor
Betty Combs: I Want to be Just Like You
Walking: The Magical Attraction
Shopping While Sitting
Is This the Time?
Thoughts of Despair
Contentment
Angels Looking Out for You and Me
Dreams Can Become Realities
Paraphrase of Psalm 23 by Phyllis
About the Author
I refused to lie down. I have my dark days, but I don’t ask, Why me?
I ask, What now?
—Daryl Mitchell
What doesn’t destroy me makes me stronger—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your right hand upholds me. —Psalm 18:35
The only real invalid is the person who thinks she or he is one.