This is a good topic! There are more and more disabled/disabilities all the time. I’m not sure why that is. It seems the more we’re taught on the basics and new ideas to good health, the worse this seems to get. The help is out there, though I see so many people disabled.

I am disabled. It’s not the best way to live by far!. It’s hard to function and I know I’m always in need of help. I have a Personal Care Giver. With my health, I just seem to plummet and keep going in that direction, down, down, down! I also have physical therapists and nurses here in my home on a regular basis. I certainly wish it was different. I do get tired of someone being here all the time. It seems there is never any peace for me. I need the help and am grateful that there are organizations out there that can service the disabled like myself. The diabled would give anything to put their life back to normal. But, once disabled or disabled from birth, that’s as normal as it gets for us.

The wheelchairs, the help to transfer from bed to chair to commode, etc. Some can’t talk nor feed themselves and the list goes on. Thank God for the home care! Then there is the other choice of Family Institutions/Rehabilitation Facilities. Here’s where they go when family can no longer take care of them. In some cases, the family may visit to these places for a while. Then the visits lesson in time. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not every family that does this to their loved ones. But in todays society and times, things are much to fast and there are more on everyones plate. Is it really all that hard to fit a visit in the schedule? Though in some cases, the visits fade. Maybe for other reasons, though! Could it be that some don’t like going into these places and it reminds them too much like hospitals? Maybe they can’t face their loved one because of guilt and they had no other choice except to send them there? Well, image how the disabled feel! It’s not a picnic for them. Now the only ones that care, are the ones nursing them and giving them the medications they need in these facilities. One finds out that they are there as residents for the rest of their lives. This is no way to live at all. But, it may still be the only way a disabled will have to live regardless. Depending on the disability, they may have no choice, it’s not up to them.

There’s another thing that is hard to face. The fact that if you’re young and disabled you know that there are people out there working that are retired, on social security and having to bag groceries for extra money to help them out just a little bit more. It should be the other way around. I’d give anything to be able to work again. Though if I was, I’d have to do it from my computer. That’s not getting out to work. There’s no feeling to it. No exercise. Maybe an income, but certainly not anything that is active. It’s not getting up off your butt.

There is no respect when a disabled /challenged person is out in public. Some people don’t care if you’re with a cane or a wheelchair. They will try to push through you in line at a store. Try to speed up at a handicapped crossing thinking you’ll move just a little faster. Common sense will tell you that, if we could go faster, we would! That’s what these crossings are for. They’re for us, the handicapped! It is rough for the disabled in all sorts of living. People have to stop for a second and realize one thing…We have a situation within a situation and it’s not easy out there in society today!