I hope this has shed a bit more light as to who/what I am about and that we can continue on with open minds in this galaxy of ours.
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| Disability |
| Disability-the condition of being disabled; incapacity; a disadvantage or deficiency, especially a physical or mental impairment that prevents or restricts normal achievement. This is the dictionary's definition of it. But like so many other words in the world it doesn't fully explain itself, so we each have our own view of what it means in relation to what we know or have experienced. |
| If on certain days you would ask me what is my #1 disability, I would say it was my not 'looking' disabled. Let's face it we use our eyes to evaluate things right off the bat, that is assuming you can see; remember blindness is a disability. When you meet me you see a human female with all her limbs and body parts, I am not in a wheel chair, I am rarely wearing any braces. Ergo it's assumed I am just like 50% of the world, that I am able bodied. This assumption isn't correct as I am in fact disabled physically even to a small extent mentally. |
| The question of how I am disabled is a complicated one, as my condition is complicated. I was a back seat passenger in a car hit head on by a drunk driver, on June 5, 1988. My injuries were 3 fractures to my head-1 healed closed along top of head, 1 healed closed along back of head, and last one healed open in face, also broke both eye sockets, crushed nose, palette, left wrist in 12 places, hip, and ruptured bladder. |
| The driver of the car I was in broke his arm which was paralyzed for 6 months, and the other passenger broke her jaw, lost 8 teeth, and dislocated her leg. The drunk that hit us had a few cuts and scrapes, lost his driving privileges for 90 days, sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 of them suspended, he served his 10 days on the weekends in a work house. |
Merry Meet Disability this will explain in more detail how this accident affects me. |
| I don't sit around sitting here feeling sorry for what has happened to result in being disabled any longer. This wasn't the case for a couple years right after but I have grown past it in many ways. I don't share this to have you worry or feel sorry for me. But it is part of who I am. My constant helping others has a lot to do with it. I have always wanted to help but never to be helped. I am still learning how to handle asking for any. Because of my disabilities I research holistic and homeopathic medicine, from this I learn and share anything I research. If I can help myself through this all and help others at the same time, then I am succeeding. Isn't that what each of us want in life is success?:) |
| I hope this has shed a bit more light as to who/what I am about and that we can continue on with open minds in this galaxy of ours.
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