Life defining moments Page 6

I was made redundant a couple of years ago, and it was the shove I needed to enrol on a degree course and study Law, and now I am working for a Solicitors office. Earning a pittance but soon I anticipate earning a damn sight more..

On another note, this may sound incredibly corny, but where I used to leave was near a home for the severely disabled, and the staff used to take the residents out now and again. One day I was walking home and someone from the home was pushing a trolley/chair thing that was almost like a bed, so deformed was the man on it. It was a beautiful warm day and the sky was vivid blue, and as I walked past them I could see that the guy on the trolley (in his twenties, disabled and unable to speak) was looking up at the sky and I can honestly say I have never seen a look of pure joy on someones face as that man had on his, as he was outside on that sunny day. It was only brief as I walked past them but it was very moving.

Quote: Maurice Minor @ April 5 2009, 12:54 PM BST

It was a beautiful warm day and the sky was vivid blue, and as I walked past I could see the guy on the trolley (in his twenties, disabled and unable to speak) looking at the sky and I can honestly say I have never seen a look of pure joy on someone's face as that man.

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You swine, you just made me cry.

To experience the joy in little things is a gift we've lost. I love those moments of rediscovery.

Funny thing was the two women pushing him were deep in conversation and didn't notice. Ah well...

Quote: Maurice Minor @ April 5 2009, 1:21 PM BST

Funny thing was the two women pushing him were deep in conversation and didn't notice. Ah well...

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Were they kissing? Were they?

Roscoff, you blew a beautiful image out of my mind and replaced it with something less admirable.

Quote: SlagA @ April 5 2009, 1:26 PM BST

Roscoff, you blew a beautiful image out of my mind and replaced it with something less admirable.

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Thank you

Ha! No they were not lezzing up. That might have distracted even me.

When did this happen?
Working in social care there's these 2 awful women who pretend to be carers and steal clients, I think they work for Bowyers.

Quote: Maurice Minor @ April 5 2009, 1:31 PM BST

Ha! No they were not lezzing up. That might have distracted even me.

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Perhaps they were in the mind of the guy lying on the bed and in fact he wasn't looking at the blue sky but trying to see behind him. Welcome to my world

Thinking about it he was probably only pretending to be disabled to get near nurses. They can all walk really- its just laziness.

Maurice I think it's time you stood for Parliament on the 'Disabled People are just Lazy' issue.

I will stand on the 'Special Needs children is another term for thick lazy twats'issue.

Quote: Maurice Minor @ April 5 2009, 1:42 PM BST

Thinking about it he was probably only pretending to be disabled to get near nurses. They can all walk really- its just laziness.

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You are probably right. I see a lot of dishy male nurses on my travels. Do come and show me how to do that walking thing sometime won't you?

Quote: roscoff @ April 5 2009, 1:47 PM BST

Maurice I think it's time you stood for Parliament on the 'Disabled People are just Lazy' issue.

I will stand on the 'Special Needs children is another term for thick lazy twats'issue.

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I'll come with you – we can use my special needs son as an example. I'll get him to bring his honours degree certificate.

Quote: Loopey @ April 5 2009, 1:56 PM BST

I'll come with you – we can use my special needs son as an example. I'll get him to bring his honours degree certificate.

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Quote: random @ April 4 2009, 7:26 PM BST

After I commented on the post it made me stop and think back, back to a conversation I had with my Dad a few years back now. He wished he could turn back the clock and have changed his diet and such likes years ago which he felt may of contributed to his cancer (diagnosed six years ago with advanced metastatic prostate cancer, given an absolute max of two years but still hanging in there, thankfully)

We talked about the 'what ifs' and then it obviously dawned on us, you would need the knowledge of today at hand back then, to make the changes you wished for, 'cos if you could simply turn back the clock you would do the same again.

Wouldn't you?

With SlagA on this.

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I'm very sorry to hear about your Dad. I understand what you are saying - he would make the same choice because he wouldn't know any different, but would it have changed anything?
Two people I know had heart attacks this week – one lived and one died. They both led similar lifestyles and were reasonably healthy. I know people who have cancer who have always lead a healthy lifestyle and others who have not. Is our path already mapped out? Can we really make a difference through choice? Is making the best of what you have now better than believing you could have made a difference in the past?
I wish your Dad well.

Just a side line. I believe you can now have a medical examination which will tell you basically when your going to pop your clogs. Road accidents etc excluded of course. I think I will avoid that one though.