Miss Infirmation's Adventures in Disability: The First Thing.
Miss Information is doing ok, although this post may lead readers to suspect otherwise.
First Thing:
Hell is other people.
John-Paul Sartre
Miss Information often visits a local grocery store because they sell a very delicious sundried tomato pesto which is keeping her alive these days. She HATES the store entrance. It has these retractable bars you have to push on to enter. This is fine for ambulatory folks but Miss Information has trouble. Her wheelchair has to be perfectly positioned to go in and even then the bar sometimes knocks her controller joystick out of place making it hard to steer.
So that happened. Right next to the entrance there was a big display table with giant white pumpkins. Miss Information noticed how cool they were as she accidentally ploughed into the table knocking one of the giant pumpkins into her lap and getting her armrest stuck under the table.
(At this point Miss Information would like to directly address her wonderful OT Amy and OTA Deanna who taught her how to use her powerchair: Yes, Miss Information was going too fast and should have taken her hand off the accellerator to regroup. No, there was no reason to panic. Yes, she did see the pumpkin display and drove into it anyway even though she had hours of training on avoiding obstacles like this. Also hi.)
First things first: Miss Information was reorganizing the display so she could put the giant pumpkin back when another customer appeared. He wanted to help he said and took the giant pumpkin and put it on the display.
Miss Information thanks him and admits that she was driving badly.
Helpful man decides to share his thoughts (bad choice, dude): Yeah you know I've had two strokes and ending up in one of those things is my worst nightmare!
Miss Information did not respond. She didn't think fast enough to tell him that this "thing" was the reason she could go to stores (and cause havoc). Without this "thing" she'd be stuck in a bed or staring out the window. This "thing" had improved her life in so many ways and she's so grateful that this technology exists. Really more of a dream than a nightmare.
She vows to enter the store using the self checkout from now on.
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