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Day 919

We say we are all equal but our actions say something else – that’s what I keep learning 🙁

It’s 3 : 14 PM on day 919 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to  stretch my hamstrings,  practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles,   brush my teeth,  pray, feed myself a salad sandwich   for breakfast, read Exodus 39, publish my Disability of the Day feature,  practice typing with both hands,    promote my 10 For 22 Campaign -I still need 19 people to reach my goal with 5 days to go till my birthday– and  make sandwiches as part of Virginia’s Sandwich Run with our housekeeper’s help – it feels so good to help people even though they don’t know my name or my face 🙂

Today I read Doctors put lower value on lives of the disabled, study finds – an article on The Telegraph about a study that finds that some doctors put lower value on the lives of the disabled – and I am shocked that some doctors would give Do Not Attempt CPR orders based on their assumptions about the quality of life of “disabled” people I am “disabled” and I happen to think I have a great quality of life to think that should something happen to me a doctor would not even attempt to save me because he/she thinks I have a bad quality of life scares me.      Are your words and actions about equality consistent?

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