Most importantly,  I am a mother,  stepmother and grandmother.  My son is 19 and my former stepdaughter and I are still close even though her father and I are divorced.  I am still Grandma to her kids :)  I am 46 and my disability is cerebral palsy.  I became very sick at 14 months old and the diagnoses was CP due to the braindamage. Before I got pregnant in "91 I used crutches full time then for safety reasons I went to  the scooter and have been using it eversince. Because of the use of the crutches for all those years before I got pregnant I developed shoulder problems that required surgery.  So  now my walking is limmited.  I know I need to lose about 30 pounds  but it has been very dificult.  There is no help  for people with disabilities who  want to lose weight.  I am on social security at the momment  till I start working again. Then  i will lose  the medicaid  so   I am really torn  on working or not.  I maxed out pt after i had surgery  but I feel that PT should be a life long preventive/wellness needed service  so I can stay active and indipendent.  I can not afford a personal trainer or a regular gym membership.  Luckily I do semi work out at the same place where I had PT after the surgery.  But  there are just some things I can not do on my own in my workouts due to the shoulder.   I do not want my condition to get worse  where I can not function "normaly" and have to go into an assistant living or group homes.  I am just frustrated.  I want to get this weight off and get stronger  but  there just is not anything out there that want to help disabled adults.