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Originally Posted by Erika
Creeps!
So sorry that you and others experience this sort of behavior when out and about. No wonder you don't want to go out Frog and Erin  .
Generally, we don't have that happen here, although it does happen from time to time; and it does tend to involve the younger crowd when it does. Otherwise, Canadians seem to be polite and will more often than not, offer their seat, their place in line ups, and even their place in line for a table in a restaurant if there are disabled folks waiting for one.
For some reason, Wal-mart seems to be an exception to that. I've witnessed and experienced all sorts of rude behavior in that place. The most common of which is when shoppers reach over someone in a scooter to get something off of a shelf, like the person in the scooter wasn't even there. Sheesh!
With love, Erika |
Back before I had any idea that I had MS (around 2004/2005) my mom had to have knee surgery.
I took her to Walmart one day, and we used a store wheelchair with the basket. I was pushing her around in the store. I walked away from her for a minute to grab something. Came back to get her, and someone was in front of her, pushing the wheelchair from the basket side of the chair to move her out of the way so they could get to something. They practically swung her around in a half circle.
She was so shocked by the move, that she didn't say anything. I was like "you could have asked, or waited. We still have shopping to do". Think they said something somewhat insulting about my mom's mental capacity. I can't remember at the moment, too tired to try to remember what the other person said.
Some people really make me hate humanity sometimes.
and on another note, while I was writing this. My regular doctor's office just called me. He had told me to call him today. I called this morning, but in the middle of leaving the message, I was like "Dr C told me to call him today, but I can't for the life of me remember exactly what he wanted to know. So this is me calling Dr. C back".
He wanted to know what my energy level was. It's still running on empty. And the steroids have made my brain a little fried. I told them I was still really tired, and didn't feel like the steroids had done much but cause me insomnia and make me more tired. The nurse said she'd call me back in a little bit. Wonder if he's going to throw some more prednisone at me? Kind of worried he might, but I almost think that it needs to be upped a little bit. Since I don't feel like it's doing that much for the energy boost that I think he was trying to give me.
I went to bed around 2am, which is about four hours earlier than I usually actually fall asleep. (I'm usually not actually getting into the bed till around 4am). I didn't fall asleep till around 430, and then I was awake at 9am.
hopefully the fact that I've gotten such little sleep last night, I'll manage to go to bed way early tonight. Our remodel for the bathroom and my bedroom starts tomorrow. I'm betting the contractor will be here seriously early.
I have to go take "Before" pictures, so that I can show off what's getting done to my room and the guest bath.
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nurse called back. Told me to finish out the taper, and see how I feel after that. I hate steroids. I really do. Hopefully I feel better eventually, as a reward for taking the stupid things.