these replies are a testament
to the fact that disability can be just as damaging psychologically as physically, as you intimated Trauma.

I have had chronic back pain for 8 years since 18, has been an absolute bitch and ruined a lot of things for me. Find myself getting bitter when I look on Facebook and see all my friends, old and new, doing nice things together, or having a good time in photos, and I get jealous. If my back didn't fuck up I could have been there, if I wasn't sore all the time that could have been me, it should have been me.

Which is, of course, silly. Can't change what you did, or who you are, just have to get on with it. Doesn't make it easy some days. Sorry, I needed to type that out, been getting a bit much recently. I say! I nearly started crying!

I think you are in an unluckier than normal position having crutches, as someone said, people usually assume it is a temporary illness and therefore one they can relate to. It's important to not get bitter about people trying to help you, however hard it is, but I guess you know this and it was a semi cathartic rant like mine.
(Lannes, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 0:37, Reply)