Monday, May 16, 2016
I can not wait until I go to camp Because when I am at camp I share a cabin with other people and there are other people there that you could talk to up at the sun deck while waiting until the tables get ready for dinner and at the art cabin too. When I am at my group home I share a room with just myself I get up myself, I take a shower by myself I even dress myself all with just one good strong arm my left arm and hand. My left leg and foot is very, very, strong too. My right arm and hand and leg and foot are weak . If I call a staff person for some help I am afraid that I have to wait because there are seven other residents living at the McLaughlin house besides me and three are in wheelchairs two residents are in electric wheelchairs but they had all got in a terrible accident that caused them a really bad head-injury too that put them in those wheelchairs. But two residents are able to walk on their own but they have to live with a real bad head-injury too. So they would need a lot of help dressing their self and eating too from staff people that work at the McLaughlin house. When I were two in a half years old I was hit by a car in the back of my head really hard and so I were dragged on the rare bumper and the impact toast me seventy two feet into an oak tree then I had to spend eight weeks in a coma. I do not remember my really bad car accident that much I only remember it from what my parents have told me I had went through a few operations, I went through therapies trying to get stronger and I am walking with a four prong cane too. Some people now do not know what I had been through and some do not care either. I could fall in my bed room and no one would care but if I yell loud enough some one will come running to help me. the bad thing is that I could strain my voice that I would only whisper every day until I get my voice back again. People do not see the whole thing they would only see bits and peaces of it. It is like when a person is telling a story to a group of children but one kid came right in the middle he was not there to hear the whole story It is kind of hard for me to talk to some people because words just go in one ear and right out the other ear. Now I might talk slower then the other people but that is not my fault is it. People do not know about head-injuries they do not know about disabilities either. Until a real bad accident happens to that person. Just remember this your brain is the master of your arms and legs of your body and if your master get damage in any way you can not use them ever again. And listen to a person that knows too. And that had to live with a disability that was cauxe by a really bad head-injury too.
