Comments on: My Accident http://www.paraplegicliving.com Life after a spinal cord injury Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:04:53 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lynn P. http://www.paraplegicliving.com/accident/comment-page-1/#comment-122 Lynn P. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:15:43 +0000 http://www.spinallawyer.com/accident/#comment-122 I'm writing a novel from the perspective of a middle-aged woman who has been paralyzed since she was a child. Now, the story isn't about her. It's about her sister, but she is definitely part of the story, since she lives with this sister, who mistreats her, as well as several other people. I'm coming up with problems in the telling of the story though. It's minor things like "How do you carry a cup of coffee into another room while naviagating a wheelchair?" That's why I'm writing you. I have been researching the daily glitches, and have discovered some of the bigger problems - lung disease, bedsores, DVT, and ease of infections. I may have invented my narrator, but I really like her, so want to protect her as much as possible. (She does move out on her sister at the end of the book, once she finds out she isn't as totally dependent on her as she thinks she is.) Would you mind if I ask questions as I write this story? Obviously, I want the story to be accurate, but I just don't know and can't seem to find answers online. I'm sure you have questions for me, too. Please feel free to ask away. My husband and I are both disabled, so I know something of what happens online, when holier-than-thou mockers pretend things to disabled people, before blasting us with their nastiness. I'm not one of those people, but the only way you'll believe that is if I can, somehow, prove it to you. So, when I say "please feel free to ask," I mean ask anything you want. This book is being written because of just those kinds of people, so it's very important to me. Thanks. I’m writing a novel from the perspective of a middle-aged woman who has been paralyzed since she was a child. Now, the story isn’t about her. It’s about her sister, but she is definitely part of the story, since she lives with this sister, who mistreats her, as well as several other people. I’m coming up with problems in the telling of the story though. It’s minor things like “How do you carry a cup of coffee into another room while naviagating a wheelchair?” That’s why I’m writing you.

I have been researching the daily glitches, and have discovered some of the bigger problems – lung disease, bedsores, DVT, and ease of infections. I may have invented my narrator, but I really like her, so want to protect her as much as possible. (She does move out on her sister at the end of the book, once she finds out she isn’t as totally dependent on her as she thinks she is.)

Would you mind if I ask questions as I write this story? Obviously, I want the story to be accurate, but I just don’t know and can’t seem to find answers online.

I’m sure you have questions for me, too. Please feel free to ask away. My husband and I are both disabled, so I know something of what happens online, when holier-than-thou mockers pretend things to disabled people, before blasting us with their nastiness. I’m not one of those people, but the only way you’ll believe that is if I can, somehow, prove it to you. So, when I say “please feel free to ask,” I mean ask anything you want. This book is being written because of just those kinds of people, so it’s very important to me.

Thanks.

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