Nighthawk
Senior member
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2013
- Messages
- 833
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 12/2011
- Country
- US
- State
- Maryland
- City
- Anne Arundel Co
Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting on my wheelchair next to a bench, in one of the aisles of the nearby shopping mall while my sister was in a store buying a gift for our mother for Mother's Day.
I had my iPad on my lap reading an e-Book on the iBook app.
Then, this middle aged man sits next to me on the bench and, starts a conversation. I respond to him by using the iPad with the "Speak It!" app.
In the course of our conversation, I mentioned him that I used to drive. He then looked at me seated on my wheelchair and said, "If you don't mind my asking, were you involved in a car accident?" I said, "No I wasn't, I have a disease." With obvious relief and without skipping a beat, he said, "I am so glad you weren't in an car accident."
I wanted to tell him (but I didn't), that actually a car accident would have been a blessing.
People have no idea what this disease does. They are too busy worried about their mundane lives that they usually overlook what ALS is or what it does.
NH
I had my iPad on my lap reading an e-Book on the iBook app.
Then, this middle aged man sits next to me on the bench and, starts a conversation. I respond to him by using the iPad with the "Speak It!" app.
In the course of our conversation, I mentioned him that I used to drive. He then looked at me seated on my wheelchair and said, "If you don't mind my asking, were you involved in a car accident?" I said, "No I wasn't, I have a disease." With obvious relief and without skipping a beat, he said, "I am so glad you weren't in an car accident."
I wanted to tell him (but I didn't), that actually a car accident would have been a blessing.
People have no idea what this disease does. They are too busy worried about their mundane lives that they usually overlook what ALS is or what it does.
NH