Through the Eyes of the Blind
by Everyone says it’s never too late to say your sorry but after those you’ve hurt are dead, is it still not too late? Many times we hurt the very people we love and don’t realize it till much later; some never do.
A little while ago I realized that my bad Karma has indeed come back to me ten fold and I didn’t even know I’d done anything wrong. A young lady I’ve known for many years that have been battling Cancer; Diabetes; have had her toes removed from both feet and is now totally blind and I had a heart to heart talk about the hurt she felt inside caused by her best friend. I saw through her how I had created that very same kind of hurt many years ago and never realized it, not once but twice.
All disabled people need quality time whether with a special friend or with beloved family members. Oftentimes we are much too busy with our own day to day problems, whether it be work; children; wife/husband; brothers/sisters; overdue bills; pre-made plans with other friends; school and or school functions and more to give them the attention they want and need.
We are so busy with our own personal lives we forget that most of these people are going through something most of them never dreamed of and have problems adjusting to. Many of them are down out right scared and feel useless where they were a big part of something once they are now left out and left behind due to their disability. Many of them feel that they are a noose around someone’s neck or a ball and chain slowing others down always apologizing for everything imaginable even when they had done nothing at all.
Most of the elders of a family have specific people within their family they want to care for them during such times; the young have specific family members or friends they want to take care of them and those people are referred to as Care Givers. For the disabled without any other means of support aside form Disability, each perspective state in the USA pays these “Care Givers” to take care of them. The state’s only pay for the minute preparation, serving and clean up of meals, and for some it is only one meal per day for the month; they figure to the second how long it will take to do a load of laundry per month; to the second to clean house for the month; and so on. They figure out the hours for the month that person is to receive care for pay and divide that into two and that is how many hours you get care paid for during the two week pay period.
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