“Are you better now?” my cleaner asks me.
To be honest, I don’t really know how to answer that. I feel fine, but I guess I’m still a disabled person. People seem to think that because of my disability I really am not feeling ok.
So I reply;
“Yep, I feel good…well I’m not sick really”.
Her puzzled look at me and my frame makes me add,
“I just have a chronic condition”. I shrug my shoulders.
She looks even more confused and almost grimaces in a pitying kind of way.
I love my life. Many would query how I do when I have a disability, but I do.
I think sometimes we assume that someone’s quality of life is crushed as soon as they acquire a disability or can’t do something ‘normally’. However, consider that anyone can still enjoy life and turn obstacles into opportunities. Another’s lifestyle may not be viewed by you as ‘fun’ – you may wonder how they could ever ‘love life’ when they’re living in a disability shell.
‘Feeling better’ is so variable. It’s so relative to what you’ve been through.
Anyone can feel great and love life if they choose to do so.
Have decided I’m feeling great and loving life! So glad you are too! Love Mary Lou
Now I know why your mother glows when she talks of you, Em.