Is there a such thing as being a temporary quadriplegic, and did I qualify?
I have had so many injuries and broken bones , that I could not crawl anywhere, (don't recall moving arms) was fed through a tube going into my stomach, could not talk , with tubes coming out of the throat.
I could silently pray and hope in God, Angels, friends in heaven, or could simply do nothing but vegetate in total hopeless misery. It took a while to even remember how I put myself there!
Hope none of you ever actually experience that, unless you are so old and dying that it is part of the normal process of dying , ( not from some traumatic injury).
I had no ability to communicate with people, not knowing sign language, and you probably have no idea how annoying it is having tubes chronically coming out your throat and mouth.
But simply could not move, not even wheel myself around in a wheelchair.
Does that qualify as being quadriplegic temporarily?
Was numb in some areas, but others were extremely painful, so if that is what some people are going through in Ukraine and Yemen, some in worse agony than that, I can't help but feel rage at a God who would create creatures who would suffer that kind of excruciating torture and agony!
But it is temporary, and they may have great reward for the cross they carry. When the rich man died in Christ's parable, Abraham told the rich man, "you had good things in this life. Abraham had evil things. Now Abraham is consoled and comforted, and you suffer"!
That parable really kind of glorifies suffering terrible things in this life, for greater reward in the next.
At the same time I praise my creator, grateful to walk and now even run short distances.
Used to run twelve miles straight without stopping, and will never long distance run again, unless inevitable knee replacement surgery goes really well or something!
But how about we all be truly grateful, that we can walk, if you can. The best thing I can take from those months confined to a wheelchair is: THE ABILITY TO WALK IS EXTREMELY UNDERATED and super underappreciated!
I have had so many injuries and broken bones , that I could not crawl anywhere, (don't recall moving arms) was fed through a tube going into my stomach, could not talk , with tubes coming out of the throat.
I could silently pray and hope in God, Angels, friends in heaven, or could simply do nothing but vegetate in total hopeless misery. It took a while to even remember how I put myself there!
Hope none of you ever actually experience that, unless you are so old and dying that it is part of the normal process of dying , ( not from some traumatic injury).
I had no ability to communicate with people, not knowing sign language, and you probably have no idea how annoying it is having tubes chronically coming out your throat and mouth.
But simply could not move, not even wheel myself around in a wheelchair.
Does that qualify as being quadriplegic temporarily?
Was numb in some areas, but others were extremely painful, so if that is what some people are going through in Ukraine and Yemen, some in worse agony than that, I can't help but feel rage at a God who would create creatures who would suffer that kind of excruciating torture and agony!
But it is temporary, and they may have great reward for the cross they carry. When the rich man died in Christ's parable, Abraham told the rich man, "you had good things in this life. Abraham had evil things. Now Abraham is consoled and comforted, and you suffer"!
That parable really kind of glorifies suffering terrible things in this life, for greater reward in the next.
At the same time I praise my creator, grateful to walk and now even run short distances.
Used to run twelve miles straight without stopping, and will never long distance run again, unless inevitable knee replacement surgery goes really well or something!
But how about we all be truly grateful, that we can walk, if you can. The best thing I can take from those months confined to a wheelchair is: THE ABILITY TO WALK IS EXTREMELY UNDERATED and super underappreciated!
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