Spinraza Gift

Like really self-conscious.

I’m not immune from this, even though I’ve been disabled all my life and have done more in my short little Brown Woman’s life than a lot of fully able bodied folx. I still have my moments (ok – it’s been going on MONTHS now. Stupid break up ) when I struggle with how different my body is and how much I can’t do.

But today, while waiting on another appointment, I met the Amazon delivery driver at the gate with my cart and mask. I had him place my monthly supplies order in my cart and I carefully took my time and navigated the cart while driving my chair BACKWARDS the entire way to my door.

While enroute, I was almost foiled by a dead palm branch that sought to sabotage my cart/wheelchair wheels. But we kept going, slow and slowly, dragging the dead branch most of the way to my door.

I was sure my left hand was going to fall from the cart handle 50-11 times during the journey but NOPE. My fingers gripped as firmly as they could and was not deterred by bumpy concrete, stubborn dead palm branches or wacky turning angles.

I got stuck when I got to my door and traversing the threshold, so I used my ingenuity and used the height function on my wheelchair along with the edge of my foot rest on a joint in the cart handle to hoist the cart up slightly while I continued backwards into my house.

I did it! I got the cart, with its heavy load, into my house by myself!

I grunted, I huffed, I puffed, I was hot out in the blazing sun, I almost gave up when the threshold almost bested me but I did it

My body is a lot of things but incapable is not one of them

Im totally digging this #SpinrazaGift

#Disabledchronicles #SpinrazaStrong