After 30+ years with MS I get a wheelchair.

[JBW]

I am not wheelchair bound but with a cement floor and glass walls prudence declared that It was better to have a chair than to fall through a plate glass wall. Not sure what I will get for outside but it will have to be photography friendly.

[Shadowman]

Nice rendering.

[mugge]

I agree with John. Get a good chair. I'd like to see more of your flowers.
Cheers Ole

[JBW]

Nice rendering.

I was trying to show he ambivalence of the moment. The darkness and the light.

[JBW]

I agree with John. Get a good chair. I'd like to see more of your flowers.
Cheers Ole

I don't know if it will be a chair for outside. But whatever it is it will allow for more flower shots, that's a promise.

[Manfred M]

Brian - if you have done this long without a wheel chair, you have done remarkably well with this terrible disease. The two people that I know with MS (one is a friend and one is my wife's cousin) are both younger and less mobile than you are.

[JBW]

Brian - if you have done this long without a wheel chair, you have done remarkably well with this terrible disease. The two people that I know with MS (one is a friend and one is my wife's cousin) are both younger and less mobile than you are.

Absolutely, it has changed my life but not destroyed it as it has for others. Even now i am not wheelchair bound. My challenge now is to find something for outside that will allow me to move through the garden and get close to the plants and bugs.

I am thinking about a semi recumbent tricycle. If I was really rich I would build a miniature train

[NorthernFocus]

Good on you that you've not let it stop you. Cool image.

[Rider in the Sky]

I am not wheelchair bound but with a cement floor and glass walls prudence declared that It was better to have a chair than to fall through a plate glass wall. Not sure what I will get for outside but it will have to be photography friendly.

Way to go John!

( I know in your province, there are lots of small lightweight
Honda cub motorcyles which you can still handle/drive for going to the beach/downtown/etc. @70y/o, I can still walk a little, but use a bicycle/motorcycle for longer. Why not try it. hehehhe)

[JBW]

Way to go John!

( I know in your province, there are lots of small lightweight
Honda cub motorcyles which you can still handle/drive for going to the beach/downtown/etc. @70y/o, I can still walk a little, but use a bicycle/motorcycle for longer. Why not try it. hehehhe)

About 5 years ago while going to town on our Honda 155 a pack of dogs went across the road. I avoided all but one. My reactions are just too slow now. And my instincts are all Old Time Canadian Biker which can get you run over in the Philippines. I'm happy in our yard.

[John 2]

Good on you that you've not let it stop you. Cool image.

Not only that but the Sony Alpha a58 came first. I like a man who knows his priorities. Nice image Brian. If your Garden is on the flat, an electric chair with four pneumatic wheels might be a thought if it's a possibility.

[JBW]

Not only that but the Sony Alpha a58 came first. I like a man who knows his priorities. Nice image Brian. If your Garden is on the flat, an electric chair with four pneumatic wheels might be a thought if it's a possibility.

it is a both a thought and a possibility.

[rpcrowe]

Brian,

Congratulations on what you do despite your disability... Until now, I had not realized that you had MS.

Perhaps you would enjoy setting up a table top area in which you could bring nature (and other photogenic items) to you rather than your going to nature.

I had a bad back problem and can relate to being somewhat immobile. One doctor stated that the surgery would need to open my back from neck to tail and that I would never be without pain. Luckily I found another doctor (actually my wife, a retired registered nurse found him for me) and after some "magic" surgery, I could walk again.

I hurt so badly that on my way to the hospital, I could not sit up in the car. I had to lie down on the back seat. In fact, I had been lying down for weeks - even for meals. Twenty-four hours after the surgery (two scars each about an inch long on my back) I was able to walk out of the hospital. After a couple of weeks of physical therapy, I was almost (not quite but almost) as good as new. That was about ten years ago and I am still able to stand and walk and only experience pain if I overdo exercise...

Best of luck to you and yours... Please continue posting!

One of our members (I forget just who it is) has a three wheeled mobility scooter rigged up with a tripod head. Perhaps he could share with you just how he did it.

BTW: I love the P.I. and am most familiar with Luzon and the area around Subic Bay.

[JBW]

Brian,

Congratulations on what you do despite your disability... Until now, I had not realized that you had MS.

Perhaps you would enjoy setting up a table top area in which you could bring nature (and other photogenic items) to you rather than your going to nature.

I had a bad back problem and can relate to being somewhat immobile. One doctor stated that the surgery would need to open my back from neck to tail and that I would never be without pain. Luckily I found another doctor (actually my wife, a retired registered nurse found him for me) and after some "magic" surgery, I could walk again.

I hurt so badly that on my way to the hospital, I could not sit up in the car. I had to lie down on the back seat. In fact, I had been lying down for weeks - even for meals. Twenty-four hours after the surgery (two scars each about an inch long on my back) I was able to walk out of the hospital. After a couple of weeks of physical therapy, I was almost (not quite but almost) as good as new. That was about ten years ago and I am still able to stand and walk and only experience pain if I overdo exercise...

Best of luck to you and yours... Please continue posting!

One of our members (I forget just who it is) has a three wheeled mobility scooter rigged up with a tripod head. Perhaps he could share with you just how he did it.

BTW: I love the P.I. and am most familiar with Luzon and the area around Subic Bay.

Hi Richard, we live in the Eastern Visayas near Dumaguete. I'm going to keep going to nature. If it is brought into me then I only get what is brought.

I tried a second opinion but the doctors were adamant I had a disease that they knew nothing about.

Glad your back is manageable.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Brian, I didn't know that you had MS either. Congratulations on your struggle with it . Please keep up shooting and posting images

[JBW]

Hi Brian, I didn't know that you had MS either. Congratulations on your struggle with it . Please keep up shooting and posting images

Of course I will.

[ied]

I admire your positive attitude. All the best as you continue to pursue your photography passion. I look forward to your flower images.
Irene

[JBW]

I admire your positive attitude. All the best as you continue to pursue your photography passion. I look forward to your flower images.
Irene

I must admit that it took a while to develop.