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<blockquote data-quote="1 Day At a Time" data-source="post: 353988" data-attributes="member: 3704"><p>I love TM's idea, it's a beautiful win-win. But, it really is up to Jessie.</p><p></p><p>A few months after difficult child's accident and his subsequent amputation, he went to the grocery store with me to get out of the house, and, of course, he used the riding cart. A store employee came up to us and said to him, "Aren't you ashamed to be using that cart that someone else really needs'? 'I was very, very hot - so I know how you feel Susie. It was just the wrong thing for someone to say after we had been through our three month hospital journey.</p><p></p><p>I said "difficult child take off your splint "- so she could see his poor residual limb. She walked away backwards with her hands up saying "Oh, I'm so sorry, Oh, I'm so sorry" "I didn't know" and she began to follow us around the store saying she really didn't know, etc. etc. - what could she do to help us? Honestly, I think she feared for her job.</p><p></p><p>I really didn't have the energy at that time to follow up with her manager - and I do believe that she learned a very, very important lesson. All disabilities are not immediately obvious, and any one of any age can have one. The more people who learn that, the more compassionate our society will be, in my humble opinion.</p><p></p><p>Valerie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1 Day At a Time, post: 353988, member: 3704"] I love TM's idea, it's a beautiful win-win. But, it really is up to Jessie. A few months after difficult child's accident and his subsequent amputation, he went to the grocery store with me to get out of the house, and, of course, he used the riding cart. A store employee came up to us and said to him, "Aren't you ashamed to be using that cart that someone else really needs'? 'I was very, very hot - so I know how you feel Susie. It was just the wrong thing for someone to say after we had been through our three month hospital journey. I said "difficult child take off your splint "- so she could see his poor residual limb. She walked away backwards with her hands up saying "Oh, I'm so sorry, Oh, I'm so sorry" "I didn't know" and she began to follow us around the store saying she really didn't know, etc. etc. - what could she do to help us? Honestly, I think she feared for her job. I really didn't have the energy at that time to follow up with her manager - and I do believe that she learned a very, very important lesson. All disabilities are not immediately obvious, and any one of any age can have one. The more people who learn that, the more compassionate our society will be, in my humble opinion. Valerie [/QUOTE]
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