Thursday, March 06, 2008

Unusual injuries

Warning: Might contain TMI to some.
Last night I woke up with a stomach ache. Aftering wondering for a bit what I had eaten and if it contained milk (dairy allergy is so much fun), I realised the aching part was my stomach muscles which were cramping. A trip to the bathroom helped a bit, so I could sleep. In the morning the cramp was still there, and I realised I had pulled a muscle. Apparently I have working muscles in my stomach after all. I started going over what I had done yesterday and what might have caused it. All I could think of was the trip to bathroom at school, when I was sitting in a weird position on the toilet and using all my strength to sit up and not fall. I have to be the only person who can pull a muscle simply by sitting in a toilet...
Then again I hurt something in my wrist by holding a book. I had a paperback in a small plastic bag once. I was alone, so I had to hang it from my chair in order not to drop it. In the process of hanging it, the whole weight of the bag was on my thumb for under two minutes. Surely enough, the next day the base of the thumb and wrist were aching.
There was also the time dad lifted me into our car and broke something in my foot. It hurt to touch and move for a few day. I learnt to keep shoes on when being lifted to difficult places after that.
Abled people get sports injuries, we disabled get injured by living... Oh, and at 10pm stomach is still cramping.
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

I have an exam tomorrow at noon, so I decided to stay at home today to study today. One of my assistants(*) has been on sick-leave since Sunday because of flu. A few hours ago she sent me a message that she won't be coming to work until Monday morning. So now instead of studying, I'm trying to get someone to work tomorrow morning, so I can get out of bed and go to school. Out of the 7 assistants I have that one has flu, other one can't work for a few months starting last Tuesday, one has another job so she can't do the shift, two have school, one has doctor's appointment, and the last one will work the long shift from tomorrow night to Saturday morning, so he isn't too keen on doing it either. Sometimes I just wish my life was less dependant on others. It would be nice to be able to concentrate on studying and other stuff without worrying when I can go to bathroom the next time or if I can even get out of bed. Oh well, maybe on next life.

A few hours later: I did get someone to get me out of bed so I can go to school. I'm just not sure if there's any point taking the exam, since I haven't studied much today.

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*) I have several personal assistants helping me with daily stuff, like getting out of bed, dressing myself, helping me in bathroom, giving me food, opening doors, handing me that book I just can't reach or the tv-remote which is place 1cm too far.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

I sat today listening a lecture about tele-democracy (*), and I started thinking about blogs and how I haven't ever heard of someone who's disabled and living in Finland having a blog. So I decided to start writing one. I'm not sure what will come out of this, but we'll see eventually.
I'm planning on writing about a lot of things, and I don't expect any of the readers to be familiar with all the stuff. That's why I'm marking terms and sentences with *'s. Those things are explained in more detail after the actual post. This way I can concentrate on saying what's on my mind without having to explain everything at the same time.
I'm writing this in English, because more people are able to read it. I don't always know the real terms in English, because I'm not a native speaker. Feel free to leave me a comment, if you think I've written something horribly wrong.

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*) tele-democracy means forms of democracy, that most people see as unconvential. In this case it's voting in political elections online, giving your opinion on things that matter on the society, and other things like that.