You learn more from the life you have than you probably would have had you had the life you wanted – that’s what I keep learning 🙂
It’s 6 : 26 PM on day 725 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, publish my Disability of the Day feature, work, feed myself a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, drink hot chocolate by myself, exercise my legs to keep my hamstrings stretched – feed myself rice and curry for lunch and go to physiotherapy – I did great this week too according to my physiotherapist 🙂
This morning after I typed a thirteen letter sentence with both my hands I was so happy and proud of myself that’s one of the things I love most about having Cerebral Palsy I appreciate the fact that I can see, hear and talk because I know that not everybody can do those things in the same way that I can’t walk most non-disabled people (I’m just telling you what I perceive to be true) don’t have that attitude of gratitude because they can do things so easily. Are you learning a lot from the life you have even though it’s not exactly the life you would have picked out for yourself?
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Nisha, you have grown so much on the path toward independence …I get it when you say people don’t get it.
I’m back on my walker. I know a lot more people in your nation die in your Nation than mine because of my reality. And for that, I respect a woman’s fight to live regardless of where they’re from with the understanding of what heath means from a human rights perspective.
Water is a blessing to a community that truly needs it.
How did you become 21y …you were 18y and barely brushing your teeth and feeding yourself. Now, look at you, young Lady.
My mentor would call me that just before something profound would come from his mouth.
We’ve fought for our lives, and we both climb mountains everyday in understanding…
…I climbed mountains of ladders for years, and can barely walk to the end of our driveway now..I’m fighting to use my legs because of my spine.
While you are fighting against your hands, well your whole body, to type 17 sentences …I’m so proud of you.
I’m grateful your community has a well.
Much love to the people on twitter that took up your cause, to support your people.
Having been sick as long as I’ve been, I am always pondering the good over evil equation and am spend a lot of time giving of my time to support health and human rights…
My wish is the fighting stop… For the world.
Acceptance, with out hate isn’t hard.
Until someone speaks hate and vile bias, and our world fights while our people hurt …both in my Nation and your Nation
Here it’s millions of people who thought $10 an hour was enough to support their families, are in the streets fighting for basic healthcare, while being homeless…yet 10 houses sit empty for each homeless person in my city.
I had a medical test today, and I feel the doctor was judgmental and disrespectful of me today.
I feel the head nurse felt it, instead of sending me home in a diaper, like doctor wanted…
She changed my folly catheter. My bag filled up with clear liquid and clear liquid is still coming out, proving to me that something is keeping my body from urinating, and I didn’t wet the pad, like the doctor claimed.
I did drink a small amout of water & a small amout of fluid has passed thru my kidneys ..because it’s a very light yellow.
I’m tired Nisha, really really really tired. I’ve worked very hard. I know there were days I missed on your journey, and yet we started this twitter journey together …and I value your love.
I don’t know if I had gotten to twitter yet when I started this painting. http://simpletownUSA.com/gpage6.html
I punctuated the end of my work on it with
Martin Luther King Jr’s phrase ‘I have a dream…’
I have nearly finished the War on Terror, (its not uploaded), our world needs to finish it too. Fighting over religion hurts our world.
I stopped adding to that site when I found out my surgery was botched.
I also believe in Karma, or Balance…to me, because I lived balance on walkboards doing things most women would never try.
And they would tell me so, while I made their homes their vision of what they wanted. Or provided wimsy and happiness for their children, many clients had me paint their rooms several times, as they grew…
I did include women from your Nation in my work.
Regardless of where we live, we all matter. IMO.
I love you too Nisha, I’m grateful for your love.
Much Love
Thanks Amy 🙂 I want what you want for the world. Small correction: The well that was built wasn’t built for my community it was built for a community in Kenya (I live in South Africa).