Originally Posted by user52165
Originally Posted by bbhero
The world famous Hellen Keller funnel
I have two of those..
Not funny and not appropriate.
Hey hoss... Get a grip.....
Because guess what???
I was 23 yrs old.... Had perfect vision...
Then one Sunday I woke up with a blurry spot that would NOT go away... Well to make a long story short... 5 days later I was completely blind in that left eye at 20/1000... diagnosed with multiple sclerosis...
In the months that followed I struggled a whole whole lot... Even got to where I could not drive for awhile because my right eye went bad six months later...
I had to learn how to deal with stuff... And guess what?? Humor became a part of that... I had to find a way. Even if not always pc... I had a good friend of mine that one day we were kidding with each other and I called myself Ray Charles... We both laughed..
I know what it is like to actually have real number2 go wrong at times. I also know that being a PC wuss does not mean a darn thing... Doing something real is what matters... Not fake, phony and faux PC garbage.
I know what it means to be in a rough place... Physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally...
You have ZERO idea just how many,many, many times I have spent helping others in the midst of their rough times.... I mean taking REAL time with them... Doing REAL things with them... Holding their hand... Tears running down my face talking with them... Them doing the same... Talking a drug addict lady into staying at the hospital... And taking 15 minutes I did not have with her... But I knew I had to... Because I knew where she would go if she left AMA... Against Medical Advice... She needed someone to take that time and talk with her.... I did it... Because she was someone to someone else. Doing something... Being real.
I heard of a patient who was having a hard time seeing the TV... I went over to that unit.. and sat and talked with him for a good while... He had the same illness I have... I told him I knew EXACTLY what he was dealing with... We had a good talk... And yeah... I got teary eyed with him...
Well about an hour later a RN who had him has her patient came and told me, "I don't know what you said to him but it really helped him".
Yeah... Doing something. . Real... Taking time...
Listening to someone Getting real with someone. Tears in my eyes talking with him.. not fake phony aupposedly taking a stand pc garbage.
Real stuff... Not that kind of garbage.
I have been there done that... I believe in not always being so such and such serious all the time...
We have to live a little. Not go around being so looking to be "offended"... That kind of mindset is a huge problem in this world... And it does not help anyone or anything...
Doing something real... Does. And I have done that a whole whole, whole lot of times...
