• uniquely-ironic said on Aug 15, 2007....

• uniquely-ironic said on Aug 15, 2007....

  Wow, that's hard!  I love each of my senses and enjoy all of my body parts, such as they are.  Memory isn't a body part unless you associate it with your brain, but I think if I didn't have a memory I'd be pissed off and not sure why I was.

• quietone said on Aug 15, 2007....

  LOL uniquely a good one.  That is a tough question to answer though.  I think I could do quiet nicely w/o the sense of smell.  body parts, I am quite attatched to, no pun intended.

• vacantmind said on Aug 15, 2007....

  I am a very visual person. As a photographer, it would kill my dreams. Body parts probably my hands. I have to see things and touch them to really learn from them. My hearing has never been great anyway. You can still feel music even when you can't hear it.

• secretlife said on Aug 15, 2007....

  over the past 3 months i've watched my sister lose her entire left side.  first the muscles of her face, then her shoulder, arm, hand, and now this past few weeks her left leg.

  you take for granted all the things you use even your left side for.  first it provides balance.  she has a hard time standing because of this paralysis.  simple things like walking you have to re-learn....and we're having alot of problems with it.  speech is another thing.  without the left side of your mouth, your speech becomes garbled, and people cannot understand you...

  the physical therapist said to climb a step, 50% of the thrust comes from the opposite leg.  without that, it's a complete relearning of how to do even the simplest thing....taking steps. 

  i was with her yesterday.  she said she can't wait until she can pull up her own pants again without help.

  if you think you'd hate to lose your vision, or your hearing, imagine what it's like to need help when you go to the bathroom.  to get there, and to clean yourself afterwards. 

  i'd hate to lose so many things.  i'd hate most to lose my independence....to have to rely on others to do even the most private of things.

  we take so much for granted....

• the_infernal_optimist said on Aug 15, 2007....

  At one time, it was predicted that I would be legally blind by 18 and totally blind by 25, I believe it was, so I got used to the idea of eventually living without sight. I still don't want to contemplate it (and man am I glad they were wrong!) but I had my whole childhood/teen years to get used to the idea.
  
  Losing my hearing would devastate me - never hearing my children laugh again? Instant misery!
  
  I'd hate to lose any part of what makes me me, physically or otherwise. Arms, legs, etc...though given that I have two kiddos in diapers, I could do without my sense of smell sometimes! :-p
  
  I had a nightmare during my brief nap today that I had cancer in my larynx and they were going to do a tracheotomy or something like that - I wouldn't be able to talk or sing with my own voice ever again, and that scared the hell out of me. In the dream, I spent the two months before surgery taking voice lessons and gave a concert of sorts for my family the night before I was to go in.
  
  We really are wondrous creatures.
  
  ~Infernal
  

• silverwhisper said on Aug 15, 2007....

  um...i couldn't live without my head...
  
  [/literalist]
  
  ed

• carmachu said on Aug 15, 2007....

  Tactile feeling. I love to feel things in my hands and run them across items.....

• moonriver said on Aug 15, 2007....

  the ability to think independently. obviously, some people do survive the loss of this ability and continue living as if nothing disastrous happened to them.
  
  oh. you meant physical senses and abilities... i'd say... uhm... i'm sure i will survive the loss of any of my five senses, or any of my four limbs (uh, make that five...). but the worst impact on me would probably be loss of sight.
  
  

• southerngirl said on Aug 15, 2007....

  i would not want to lose the abilitily, to implore fear in my life as i am now, just thinking about how much i fear losing any of my body parts, i need them all.

• starchini said on Aug 15, 2007....

  I cant believe none of u mentioned sexual body part?!?!  I could live without my legs, my arms my hearing my site but i could not live without my clitoris!  Orgasms are the most amazing feeling, not even comparable to other parts.

• Eilan said on Aug 15, 2007....

  I don't know how to answer this.  I like all my senses and want to keep them.
  
  My grandmother has macular degeneration and has gotten to the point where she's considered legally blind, though she does have somewhat limited peripheral vision.  However, she's never seen my two youngest children all that clearly, and I know that bothers her.

• Suddenrain said on Aug 16, 2007....

  Losing my eyesight would devastate me. I could live without my sense of smell. As far as losing a body part....I don't find that as important. People with no hands, type with their toes or a pencil in the mouth. I could handle losing body parts. It's my senses that would bother me.

• MissMimi said on Aug 16, 2007....

  I have lived all of my life with virtually no use of my left leg, and impaired use of my left arm.  While I do have a certain amount of curiosity about what it feels like to run and dance, I've gotten along without the full use of my body.  I have motor paralysis--losing sensory paralysis would be devasting to me.  Of the senses of sight or hearing, I could live without my sight, but if I lost the ability to hear music or the voices of my loved ones, well, I'd have a lot of trouble with that.

  It's all perspective I guess.  Somewhere I think you find the strength to deal with the loss of use of body parts and senses.  It's hard, to be sure, but eventually you can become accustomed to anything.  After all, what's the alternative?  Just one person's opinion.

• southerngirl said on Aug 16, 2007....

  Hi, suddenrain, i have been trying to get in touch with you to say that i am sorry for the comments that i made to you concerning Cam, i did'nt know that telling you that you were the bearer of bad news would hurt you to the point that you you would block me before i got to know you, girl, you to fragile and that is ok but i dont think that my statement make you rise to that occassion and neither did it rise to the occassion, you telling alisonmarie to block me also, well i must say, you have some wonderful posts that i would like to comments on if i had the "chance" so again, i say sorry.

• southerngirl said on Aug 16, 2007....

  Ladygamer, let me say that i am sorry for bringing my comments to one of your guess without your permission but this was the only time that i have had a chance to get after that young lady, again, sorry.

• Suddenrain said on Aug 16, 2007....

  Southern, I will unblock you.

• gingersoul said on Aug 16, 2007....

  First ...Secret....i am so sad to read what your sister is going thru .....and so sorry for you because you are witnessing it all...{{{{{hugs}}}}}

  You are rigth...we go in life taking everything for granted. But ist the only way we can have a normal life. We would be constantly paralyzed by the terror otherwise.......

  As for me....losing my sight would be the worst. I am a visual. Sight means control of the sorroundings.. Even if cant walk around or hear or taste or smell. What's the purpose of moving if i dont see where i am and what i have around me and who is with me. And not seeing the face of my loved ones?.....No way.

  And since memory is indeed a sense for me...i would be devastated without memory..   

• Expendable said on Aug 16, 2007....

  LG, the deaf can still dance, it's just a matter of feeling the vibration in the air. Of course, it helps that the music's got a definite beat to it. Beethoven's best work was done when he was completely deaf.

  Touch is the one sense I'd have a problem living without - because without it, you're completely alone.

• Mamie said on Aug 16, 2007....

  I have seen so much suffering in this world...and I just spent the last week with my friend who had to have a double masectomy...I really can't comment on what kind of trouble would be the least annoying...I guess I am with MissMimi on this one, it is all relative to your perspective and you must adjust no matter what...

• wakingharmony said on Aug 16, 2007....

  There are many pros and cons about all of these....first my sight is getting worse every day.... my hearing even worse....after an MCI I couldnt use my left hand (I am left handed) my memory was crap and suddenly felt dependant.The memory is getting better and I can write again. I love hearing the Beauty of the World, your new born cry....Seeing the Beauty of a Child coming into the world Is beyond explanation........the smell of a fresh baby....can keep me on inhale till my lungs explode.....an orgasm .....Ive had without even a touch to it ( i think it might be like a electrical outlet, you plug in the light it works, but just you turn the light off doesnt mean that there is no juice there)    Eyes are somtimes misused to judge and see things that arent there.......and so is hearing  But me loosing that wont cange anyone else. Ok here goes Id opt for  wait nobody loose that just the sensation ok  being I really don't have a say in the Matter I would trust God ....If he brings you to it ...He'll bring you through it

• PassionTraveler said on Aug 16, 2007....

  My soul.

• wakingharmony said on Aug 16, 2007....

  I think PassionTraveler wins

• husbandhater said on Aug 16, 2007....

  I too think the loss of hearing would make me loose it. Not to hear music or my children's laughter......

• PassionTraveler said on Aug 17, 2007....

  TY WalkingHarmony. I too liked what you said and agree whole-heartedly. You wrote:
  
  
  "I really don't have a say in the Matter. I would trust God ....If he brings you to it ...He'll bring you through it"
  
  
  That is so true. Hence why I said My Soul would be the greatest part of myself lost. Without that, the having or the losing of anything else on, in or around my person really doesn't matter.
  
  PT
  

• LadyGamer said on Aug 18, 2007....

  I already live without touch.

• southerngirl said on Aug 19, 2007....

  LG, "praise the lord", that must have been a great adjustment, to live without touch. this post is frightenning to me, i dont want to think of nothing that i may have to give up someday, that i was born with, i truly need all body parts.

• southerngirl said on Aug 19, 2007....

  LG, "praise the lord", that must have been a great adjustment, to live without touch. this post is frightenning to me, i dont want to think of nothing that i may have to give up someday, that i was born with, i truly need all body parts.

• southerngirl said on Aug 21, 2007....

  L.G. how did that happen. i only hit once, like always, what am i doing here, giving up something and did'nt even notice it until today.  It is posts of "thoughts" like this that will keep me returing because i want to know how people choose a body part to give up.

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