[Diabetes-talk] Pumps

[Mike Freeman]

Isn't what you write below the very definition of an inconvenience or nuisance as opposed to a tragedy?

Mike Freeman
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On Feb 21, 2013, at 23:48, limestone lady <limestonelady at samobile.net> wrote:

> Having grown up blind, I have a problem with people who take the attitude that blindness is a minor inconvenience, and not a disability.
> To me, that's either a head in the sand attitude, or shame.
> Blindness is no more of an inconvenience then is beeing black in the segrigated south, or having to constantly go out of your way to find something as necessary as a bathroom, because you're in a wheelchair.
> Well, maybe the two of us just took the lid off of a boiling pot, but in today's world, this isn't said often enough.
> I'm sure
> I could think of more to say, but I'll leave it at that.
> Linda.
> 
> 
> 
> Original message:
>> I'm a little reluctant to reply to this thread, but let's just put it this
>> way.  Some of us grew up in a time when common sense safety was not
>> practiced.  My worst "bump" was due to a P.E> coach insisting that I run
>> cross countries (nothing wrong with that) without any guidance from someone
>> who could see (a whole lot wrong with that).  In 1962 in a little school
>> district in W. Texas, they had no idea how to deal with a kid who just
>> wanted an education better than the "broom academy" which was the Texas
>> School for the Blind in those days.  So, I ran those cross countries, but
>> one day I was a bit late getting out the door and couldn't catch up to the
>> rest of the crowd.  So I wandered off the track and blew out my front teeth
>> and a good chunk of my brain on a baseball backstop I ran into at full
>> speed.
> 
>> So, while I fully support NFB's position that blindness is no excuse, I
>> humbly submit that there are real world circumstances which put blind folks
>> in positions which compromise our bodies.  Concussions are a real risk, and
>> we need to be aware of that.