I thank you all for your kind thoughts and advice. I have a degenerite neuromuscular disease very similar to motor neuron. While my body wastes away my mind, thankfully, remains sharp most of the time. It really depends on how many 'happy' pills I have to take on any certain day to keep the pain to manageable levels. For me there is no cure at the moment and to make matters worse just recently I have lost my licence to drive so I will never again enjoy the thrill of driving some of the old trucks I love so much. Also my ability to walk has become very hard just lately. However I am determined to keep going one day at a time and I believe I will still be kicking (or trying to) when they screw the lid down for the last time.
If I was fit and able I would have a real truck in my garage now just like most of you do. However I make do with my research and the making of my 1/35th scale models. Models of trucks I would love to own. I ask a lot of you for imformation and you all add to my thirst for knowledge and for making my models more accurate. I do have to take into concideration the construction of the model so have to compremise in places to make it work as it is a model and not a real truck scaled down.
Keith I put the comment about you and Mike wishing I would bug off very tongue in cheek as I know you do not think that way at all and I do not expect people to drop what they are doing just to do some things for me. I really appreciate the information that you folk do give out.
I am also very guilty
: of 'borrowing' pictures off websites and forgetting who to give credit to when I load them up onto "Roo's Truck Archives" for other modelers to use as reference in Armorama's gallery as well and this is what started this thread from Bill. (see the thread this forum called 'CMP engine pics wanted')
To Bill I wish you the very best and I hope the doc can come up with some medication that will help you and also let you become 'our old Bill' again.
I do not want anyone to feel sorry for me, rather keep this Forum flowing with all the marvelous Information and friendship that we have Geoff to thank for in setting this Forum up.
That is all I will ever post on this illness issue so .
everyone and thanks, thanks for the info and the friendship
