tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post3783601551202981329..comments2024-03-16T16:44:18.220-07:00Comments on Bad Cripple: End of Semester Blues and Morewilliam Peacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00223601480542461802noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-91174996249021532172015-05-05T23:40:34.588-07:002015-05-05T23:40:34.588-07:00I admit tears reading this. Not sympathy although ...I admit tears reading this. Not sympathy although I do have that but just fellow feeling. I can walk about etc but I remember how it was when my husband was alive and he expressed almost the same as you. My youngest has chronic Lyme and is too often housebound for lack of energy and pain...I am twice her age and I bring her groceries, clean her floors -and she has nobody apart from her husband...no friends nothing. It's as if she didn't exist and on top of this as with so many she suffers pain etc... it's so bloody fucked up - and I am not big on swearing... I get worried that if I am not here what will happen and I felt like this with my husband...I was able to soften the edges of suffering and I see this as my main thing in life...Like John am in Australia and it is the same here...maybe not quite so harsh but it is bad... don't know solutions but just hope when you do the trip things life for the time. But what you are expressing and feeling is pretty much how it is for so many...thanksMiddle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1556371561007953336.post-62328366522769541042015-04-30T01:29:34.859-07:002015-04-30T01:29:34.859-07:00Hi Bill (may I call you Bill, even though we have ...Hi Bill (may I call you Bill, even though we have never met?)<br /><br />You wrote this piece on the 45th anniversary of the accident that resulted in my quadriplegia.<br /><br />Except for your apparent deep personal despair, it could have been written by me.<br /><br />In Oz, as apparently in the USA, people continue to ignore their obligations under our Disability Discrimination Act with the same pathetic excuses and long drawn out discussions which really boil down to "we can't be bothered because it will cost money".<br /><br />Enjoy you trip, enjoy your son, come back refreshed and full of fight. The world needs you.<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />JohnJohnMoxon1https://www.blogger.com/profile/00897917541597020527noreply@blogger.com