United Brachial Plexus Network

<t>I learned driving when I was 25, just when I had a job and I could afford an adapted car. To me, it's impossible to change gear (my right arm does not do some of the movements) so I had to buy a car with:<br/> automatic gear, teledispositive for turning lights, lights, washing glass and so on jus...

Sorry, forgot to tell:
I am 32, Severe ROBPI.

<t>How many have always had pain? <br/> Never had pain! Just some annoying "electrical" shocks under skin, it happens in average every two weeks, it lasts for 4 - 8 hours.<br/> <br/> Did you ever tell your parents/family you were in pain or did you just accept it as your normal?<br/> I told them abo...

<t>"It just goes to show, childhood memories are they ones that stick for a lifetime". <br/> <br/> "I was endlessly questioned about why my arm was shorted or why I couldn’t do what everyone else could do".<br/> <br/> "therefore I spent more time looking in the mirror and more and more time looking ...

<t>I cannot add anything new to previous posts. I never felt disabled too. I just needed some help sometimes to do a few little things.<br/> When other kids asked me why I had my arm in this way since I was 3-4, I was more or less aware of what happened to me. So I was able to answer them.<br/> What...

<t>I am 32, severe ROBPI, never had surgeries at the nerves, but just when I was 10, to rotate the arm.<br/> I could not say about pain. I don't feel pain, neither in the past. The most uncomfortable thing, is that I feel little muscles moving under the skin sometimes. It's really annoying but it is...

<t>Hi, nice to meet you and your husband. <br/> You will never know exactly how he feels, I agree.<br/> May be some of us can understand it a little better, BUT<br/> I think that each person in the world has their own caracteristhics, and no one else can fully understand the others except the other ...

<t>To Marymom: I live in Italy, in Rome.<br/> To Tessie: I answered you, but I forgot to tell you that, yes, we had some problem with earthquakes. This time it was really a moving thing since among a "little" number od deads (29) there were a lot of kids (a school broke down in a little village in t...

I want to thank every single person who posted into this topic until now: it gave me a lot of energy, and it also lovely hits the people who look at me as an alien when I ask for trying new things!

<t>Well, this thing about the balance-while-running it's really strange: so, it depends on what?<br/> <br/> Anyway, I am italian (I live in Rome), and I am trying to practice some new sport, in addition to those I wrote down at the beginning of the topic.<br/> But: my right arm does not raise at all...