I had a quote given to me (source unknown, I suspect to protect the innocent) that sums up opportunities available to the limb challenged. It reads:
"You'd be surprised how many girls are turned on by a prosthetic leg".
The donor of the quote has one prosthetic leg, a big smile and a lot of determination. He has youth and opportunity on his side
I have two, and a beautiful wife who sees that I have no need to explore the vagaries of the female mind. I am truly blessed because Christie chooses in no way to categorise me as "disabled" or"helpless". I am just Larry.
Life is great, and adventures abound.
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I wrote a poem once about "The Foot". It was amazing what character I saw within it.
I never see my wonderful husband as someone without legs. I see him as a whole person. He is full of life and full or drive. I don't see him with any challenges. He is extremely intelligent and ready to take on life with gusto. He has a great pesonality and righteous character. He is spiritual and we have solid togetherness from across long-distances. I love him and trust him completely.
One of the funny things he notices about others...when a stranger comes upon him in his wheelchair they tend to speak loud and slowly. I'm guessing that they think he has a brain problem, not a surgical experience.
Depending on his mood, he either laughs under his breath or says something like "Hello, How are you today"? This usually charm's them into good conversation or they feel ashamed of their first thought and they move quickly away from him.
I know there are some disabled persons who have other disabilities. We should all pray for the pain and suffering that they have endured. We are all brothers and sisters in the gospel.
My husband can do many marvelous things that no one would suspect he could accomplish. He has the "Let's go" attitude. Let's get it done! You should see how he runs the garbage cans out to the curb with his wheelchair. He also moves the snow off the driveway in his wheelchair.
It takes us both about an hour to get ready in the morning for our day. Yes, OK, so I have to mess with and curl my hair and put on make-up before I can go outside our home...ha ha ha. The good thing is "I can". The time is there. We work well together.
Now about that comment he made...
"...Girls are turned on by a prosthetic leg". He always has on his spiritual legs, he is only missing his temporal legs. When I massage him at night, I run my hands past his missing parts onto his spiritual lower legs. He tells me that it feels good to have the missing parts massaged.
Wouldn't you like all your parts massaged? Hummm...so would I!
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