undeserving

I wish my mother were still alive she having had to go through such decisions over my younger life with little help from anyone for decisions… they almost killed me on my first surgery and my father had to disconnect my lines and carry me in his arms out of the hospital to hospital for special surgery where they did some experimental treatment to save me from staph aureus septicemia during a surgery for congenital hip reduction which failed …before that I walked unassisted and since I use crutches and barely can walk at all now. My parents were heros and took me far in life what with all they did to push me along. I was the first kid ever to be mainstreamed in my school for all 12 grades. My mother would not permit me to be in the “handicapped” class with the mentally deficient kids. In kindergarten the teacher stormed into the principal’s office refusing to have me in her class because I could not pour the juice when it was my turn and often wet my pants. The principal fired her. It was a long road to where I am. It is only a mother who can make her son into something when all others see him as a loss. In a mother’s eyes her son is perfect; my mother used to tell me that often. She told me god was watching out for me in a special way. Really it wasn’t god; it was her all along. My father was a saint; he dressed me every day of my life until I was 16 years old and insisted on going to the NYU Rusk Institute to learn to dress myself. In a day they taught me to dress completely, sent me to a shoemaker to get zippered shoes, built me a dressing apparatus for assistance, and since there was some time left over, taught me to get up off the ground unassisted in open space using only my own hands and my crutches. Also, they taught me to climb on to a bus, but I never did that. My odyssey was unreal and I never saw it from afar. I was never put amongst handicapped people and never saw myself that way. To this day, I don’t. Now, I permit myself to ride in a wheelchair in airports only. I still have difficulty seeing myself in the light of all the things people must do for me; especially, poor Annie bears so much of that. I am often surrounded by saints. I feel undeserving.

mor..

second to the last... "Anyone detained by the police is now entitled to a solicitor from the moment they are taken in for questioning. The changes follow a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights." ...they just thought of this??

third from last: " A new customer service charter stipulates that you should never have to wait longer than 2.5 minutes when calling a call centre. A free call back service should be provided if this cannot be achieved." ...good bye customer service ...now all they hafta do is call you back ...it does NOT specify someone has to speak with you when they do!!

relief beyond belief

"From now on pigs must by anaesthetised before they can be castrated."

http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/120101_What's_new

Amongst the increases in taxes (note some being from 21-30%) and the added layers of social burden from a socialist administration (well, what do you expect?), there is one soothing item left for last. I put it first. Eat pork, the other white meat, it's what's for dinner !!