SHARE sounds good. Unfortunately, I'm way up here in Canada and probably a little out of their range. I also have to wait for the pain to get under control, which if today's phone call to the doctor is any indication, could take forever.

I asked him if my X-ray and bone density scan had been scheduled yet. I was promptly told by his secretary that "these things take time". I've been waiting for over a month.

Try listening to that line when it hurts for you to sit up in a wheelchair. Try listening to that one when you can't prepare your own meals any more and must shell out over $100/month for one meal a day and when your life's gone down the toilet.

Am I going to end up in a nursing home before anything gets done?

There is a thing more crippling than cerebral palsy: the prison of your own mind.