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In reply to the discussion: One by one, Pope greets hundreds in wheelchairs, laments society’s rejection of the disabled [View all]polynomial
(750 posts)An on the job injury happened to me this last summer. Falling on my right side as I safely stepped at an angle of repose. That would be were the ground is granulated enough and or greasy enough to curl and fall. My fall was a very hard body slam across my right side. But I fell protecting my head.
Stunned from the fall but not feeling pain right away I shook off the fall looked around then went to finish the job. It was not till a few days later severe pain developed an ankle sprain ripened with pinched nerves long my right side. It was bad very bad pain I never experienced before. Since that time still recovering but not at one hundred percent, I always noticed wheelchair people.
My compassion for wheelchair people swung into gear as I realized a very neglected society, the injured, the elderly, the sick, as a Vietnam veteran now rethinking how our Congress and The Senate take care of those within our society that make the one percent successful. Its all so extremely sad and disgusting to argue about health care. The rhetoric should be guess what we figured out how to make it better. Maybe some day to start a fund drive for such people.
A friend of my brother in law has a terminal disease in a wheelchair slowly dying his hands curling into no usefulness, he cannot use his feet. His wife is an absolute Angle, she takes such good care of him. There is love any man would be blessed to have. Thinking to myself blessed I am to be able to recover. However, my whole right side was going through continuous nerve shocks of terrible pain while trying to walk which I would endure.
The very sad thing is the people at the company I work for advertise being family types are exactly the opposite. The safety person in charge at the company wanted me to report the accident done at home. Then I would not be able to cover my insurance bill which is climbing. So, here I am in the very cool American corporate system trying to get medical to cover expenses that I have paid for over a decade. A warning to all, that the corporate goodie people are not as good as they say they are, especially when it comes to health care.