The elevator in our new condo has not been working well. It must be a used elevator, because the building is brand new. It started rocking and rolling and making loud noises a month or two back. Now it just completely shuts down on a frequent basis. It is only 2 1/2 stories, 3 1/2 if you count the garage, so it's no hardship to walk up to the condo. However, when you are carrying a wheel chair, and then have to go back down the steps and help a guy, who has been falling once again, it does become an inconvenience.
We went out for breakfast this morning. There is a small breakfast and lunch joint near us that we have not tried before. The food and service was great, but it was so difficult to get the chair through the restaurant. We had to ask people to stand up, reposition their chairs and move tables that were in our way. It's really no big deal, and probably more of an inconvenience to others, but it's still something that we need to consider.
There are so many big issues in this world, and even in our own tiny little world, I hesitate to even think about this topic. Nevertheless, it does exist, and when added up, a bunch of little inconveniences become a bigger issue.
One of these days, I may start up a fight for the rights of the disabled. At the moment, I only have the energy and time to make life as great for the two of us as is possible. I think I am doing a pretty good job of that, by the way.
Until Tomorrow,
Ann and Dennis
Living with Shy-Drager, Multiple System Atrophy and small inconveniences
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