Friday, May 27, 2016

Moving Independence

I am growing up.  In fact, I am a grown up!
       I am graduating high school.  My plan for future schooling is that I am going to a local community college.  I will finish up the necessary general education classes and then hopefully transfer to a four year university.  As of now, my career choice is to become a child psychologist.  I also want to start my own business!   Maybe do both or whichever one works out first. 
       I am getting my service dog!  A Labrador Retriever that will help me locate curb cuts, retrieve objects, open doors, and so much more.  Her name is Cleo and her coat is more reddish then golden.  She is beautiful and will help me at ton during my college years and beyond!

       I need to ask you to help me mature and grow up.  While I am growing up I need to be able to get to the gym, social events, my college campus, etc.  I will have my caregivers drive me to and from places in my wheelchair accessible Van.  Will you help me grow up and become more independent by helping me win a Van?

I would like your help, please.  Would you mind VOTING and asking everyone you know (SHARING)  to vote once a day for me at mobilityawarenessmonth.com?  The prize is a wheelchair accessible vehicle!  There will be three winners; an elderly person, a caregiver, and someone in between. I would be the "in between" person.   IT COSTS NO MONEY to vote and I would not be asking if it did.
       This van is so important to my family and I.  It is getting harder for me to get in and out of the car which in turn is harder on my parents to lift my wheelchair and myself into the car.  This is why I am desperately asking people to vote each day while telling everyone they know to also vote each day.  Otherwise, a wheelchair accessible van costs about $70,000!!

Taking MTS is simply not convenient, either.  They give an hour window of when they will be there and it can take two hours because of having to drop-off and pick-up other people.  You can never be on time.

The voting ends May 31. 

Heroes With Disabilities

Have you ever noticed that those with disabilities are never on television or othe,r entertainement?  Or, when the,y are, that person is cured or killed off.  I was reading an article earlier entitled "Waving Away Disabilties and Chronic Conditions in Fiction" byCarlie St. George and it got me thinking…
       The world walks on egg shells around people with disabilities because we are not seen and therefore not heard.  No one wants to be around people with chronic illnesses because they are afraid to get too close as if we might shatter into a million pieces.  We are not fragile and we should not be treated any differently.  Also, for the most part, there are no magical cures.  I can not tap my heels three times and make it go away.  Sometimes I wish I could, but it is what it is.
        Life is not easy or fair and it was not made to be.  I know that fiction is imaginary, but can't we be more imaginative than making cures for all?  Although life is not easy or fair, that does not mean I moulin like to be pitied or cured.  I can't imagine who I'd be without my disability, without having been through what I've been through.  I want to be a hero!  I want to be a hero with a disability!  So, put me in a book…