Advice from a Wheelchair Captain
2021 is Here! I promised the topics of my blog posts would focus more on fun things I am doing and less about multiple sclerosis (MS) since my last 2020 post. COVID-19, a new job for Steven, and a pending home remodel (just to name a few reasons) have kept Steven and me from going on as many adventures as we would like. They will pick up again. I promise. Therefore, I wanted to write about a different topic, which is what do you say/do for someone with a physical disability. Questions I had no idea people had until I became disabled. I have mostly had a positive experience with people out in the public, but I have been asked, "What happened to you?" and a have heard a lot of "Well, you look great!" (an auto-immune disease like mine should not have an impact on my looks, so I never consider this type of "compliment" a compliment or a consolation prize for what I deal with). On the surface the aforementioned question and comment do not seem harmful, bu...