Her daughters have medical issues, including one whose problems are invisible.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suzann...b_3806012.html

"I am a kinder woman who lives in a world that is no longer black and white. Sometimes gray is good, a salvation, a retreat from something that could be much worse. My priorities were reshuffled for me, and now I would never think to judge another."

This is exactly how I feel now. Thanks so much for sharing that.

Quite powerful...and makes me chagrined to think I was once one of those too...no more!! You can't judge a book by it's cover, and these invisible diseases are proof...
thanks for sharing this!!

My Mother always said, "be careful when opening mouth, that
you don't insert foot".

Thanks Nat..

that was very powerful testimony for us all. it's so easy to judge each other when we really need to be gentle.

thanks for that link.

That was such a good letter! So true. When I was younger and Irv was not in a wheelchair I had a few years when people would criticize me for parking in the disabled zone. I would only park there when there was no room near the entrance I was aiming for, because I could walk, although I would sometimes get too tired and stagger or meander. When my husband ended up in a wheelchair, of course, we had the permanent wheelchair lift on the back of the car, and no one barked at us any more. The disabled pass was mine, not Irv's, he didn't take the time and effort to get one since I already had one, and I did the driving by then.
The big problem for which I needed the parking space was not total inability to walk...it was that I sometimes got tired easily and began to walk "funny", although still walking.

I miss my husband whom I put in and out of the car and into his wheelchair. He was the light of my life.