She deserved so much better, it's true. She and I had more than a few conversations about how people treated the disabled, the overweight, the poor. I had enough issues when I was briefly in a wheelchair with people who treated me like garbage. She and I had a conversation at CRF once where we had to practically verbally bitchslap a man for being so dismissive of her, because she was walking behind her wheelchair, and he treated her like an ass.
I have an MS walk shirt from years ago that I never sent to her because while it was big, it wasn't big enough to fit her. I know that when she was in high school she was a varsity level athlete. I know she always wanted to be a teacher. I know what it was that took her down to begin with. She was so much more than the diseases that made the world look at her like she was nothing.
She was loved, and by people who saw her for so much more than what all of her diseases did to her, but as a human being with loves and cares and desires and spirit.
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Date: 2011-01-28 04:05 am (UTC)I have an MS walk shirt from years ago that I never sent to her because while it was big, it wasn't big enough to fit her. I know that when she was in high school she was a varsity level athlete. I know she always wanted to be a teacher. I know what it was that took her down to begin with. She was so much more than the diseases that made the world look at her like she was nothing.
She was loved, and by people who saw her for so much more than what all of her diseases did to her, but as a human being with loves and cares and desires and spirit.