Hi Merrill,
It sounds like you've got a pretty good grip on this Quadhood that is now our
lives. I'm glad to hear you've learned how to forgive, it's a hard lesson, but
a very important one in this life! Stay strong.
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 30 Years Post
Texas, USA
Merrill Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ive been injured since 1990, Monday 1:45am. I will
celebrate my 50th B day this Thursday. I can accept the responsibility of
honesty with the gentle grace of understanding also. Amazing how Ive learned
to forgive from the smallest to the world, other people after all this Q stuff.
Myself and the shooter probably being the smallest but, the first and hardest
to forgive. After that, forgiveness came easier to me for hopefully all
others.
Someone left me for dead which I really should be. Not afraid to pass along,
but knowing that this is not going to be one of those things just meant to
happen. I know more than anything that I could give up when I first heard
those words quadriplegic or paralyzed while yet unconscious but aware my first
three days in ICU. The indignation that someone wanted to take something of
mine, that being my life, could had been anything., This I think kept me awake
and when safe to fall asleep.
Often I can be with my service dog thinking of the people responsible in
bring her to me. Ive met people I am sure not to have never under other
circumstances get to know or pass by.. In my 40 years ambulatory, I had never
met anyone in a wheelchair. It just never came up. Here, on this list, and
near every other day I see, maybe meet some of the greatest people I could. At
least some of the most interesting. Some people still can be the most annoying
to be around.
Not to get me wrong, sometimes I actually say alone out loud, this
Quadriplegic moment sucks. I still have not forgotten, at least to myself
that I would accept it all over again given life.
You Have To Love It,
Merrill
