Hey, it’s Friday again! I’ve had a horrible week, battling a migraine that sent shooting pains from my eye to my right arm and fingers. While I’ve been spending quality time with my painkillers, good stuff has been going on in the disability blogosphere. Check. It. Out.
Karen Putz usually writes at A Deaf Mom Shares Her World but has an awesome post up at the Chicago Moms Blog: Embracing my Deaf Self:
My summers as a teen were spent hiding the fact that I couldn’t hear. As soon as the school year ended in the late spring, my lone hearing aid was placed on a ledge and never touched until the first day of school in the fall. I spent my summers with a great group of friends, many who knew just what to do to make communication happen between us. I depended a lot on my lipreading skills to piece together conversations. It was the casual group gatherings that had me bluffing my way through conversations because it was next to impossible to lipread the many lips that were speaking at the same time.
Wheelie Catholic: A Place Where the Sidewalk Ends:
because suddenly the sidewalk ended and a very green yard lay before me. I stopped my power chair (aka The Beast) and sat there. I couldn’t cross the street because there were no curb cuts in sight and the curbs exceeded the height I can safely jump.
Screw Bronze! Secret Shames and Wish/Bucket Lists Part II with pics of fire
to do: GET OUTSIDE! Yes. Go see the outside world, now that there is sun and such. And specifically, I would like to go wheel in the woods. The pain and weakness I have right now make the difficult but I am trying to sweat to improve my circulation and healing and when that pain finally goes away, I hope I will be in better condition to go outside. I really would like to go to the woods, and into the trees, smell the loam, the fallen needles, and the vines of blackberries, fallen old blackberries giving it a scent of sweet blackberry and dusky dark earth, a hint of mushroom and warm bark.
TGIF, y’all!
Thanks for the mention! Hope you feel better!