I know its incredibly hard form prople who haven't been there to understand - but most problems that you encounter in life have been met at sometime by somone else. Getting disabled, having a drink or drugs problem, losing your job....


You make some sort of recovery but don't win as many tricks as you could have done.

Years later, you just wish you could elp other people - because deep down you KNOW there were people who weren't as lucky as you were.- some people just get wiped out by adversity. And you can help people with your know how and insight.

The doctor sends you home with your problem and you have to work out what you can cling on to and what you have to let go. You have to grieve for your old life - its gone. Good friends can help you maximise what is left to you - perhaps even like these paralympic heroes find a whole new better life.

Unfortunately you will meet enemies - people who steal from you as much as they can. people who will erode your rights. you won't know about them until you go to the hospital and find that its been built on top of a hill that disabled people can't climb. Then you will understand the meaning of theft - the contract has been given to some shyster.