{"id":578,"date":"2018-02-22T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journey.jayctheriot.com\/?p=578"},"modified":"2018-02-22T22:11:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:11:20","slug":"2018-february-22-and-this-is-why-im-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"2018 February 22 &#8212; And this is why I&#8217;m Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an &#8220;OK&#8221; week.\u00a0 I had a meeting on Tuesday that I spent a little too long sitting in a chair for.<\/p>\n<p>The die had been cast.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to recover from Tuesday morning all week.\u00a0\u00a0 Until this evening that is.<\/p>\n<p>My baby&#8217;s high school concert was this evening and I wanted to make it there with my two canes. I have been fairly mobile today and I figured I could make it.<\/p>\n<p>It was a horrible assumption.<\/p>\n<p>On the ramp to the assembly hall, my right leg gave out.\u00a0 I powered on.\u00a0 My wife helped me concentrate until we were on a flat surface again.\u00a0 Every step felt like I was taking a red-hot poker and sticking it in my right leg, the length of the major bones.\u00a0 At this point, as I had been experiencing symptoms, I had already taken all my meds.<\/p>\n<p>We left the assembly early.\u00a0 My friend recorded my daughter&#8217;s performance for me.\u00a0 I will listen to it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>After we settled in, kind of, at home, I told my wife that I didn&#8217;t want to go to work tomorrow.\u00a0 It is an odd statement, being that I am disabled and don&#8217;t work. But, it is a statement of feeling.\u00a0 It is a statement of acknowledgement that things are so bad that there isn&#8217;t a single bird on this earth that could fly me to work.<\/p>\n<p>All I want to do is not move.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t because I&#8217;m hyper and I like doing things.\u00a0 But, the feeling is one of relief that I don&#8217;t have a project that if I miss I will have to spend two hours briefing someone one on the protocols they will have to fix if something breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Reality is: I hope I didn&#8217;t tear something in my drugged up state trying to see my daughter perform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an &#8220;OK&#8221; week.\u00a0 I had a meeting on Tuesday that I spent a little too long sitting in a chair for. The die had been cast.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to recover from Tuesday morning all week.\u00a0\u00a0 Until this evening that is. My baby&#8217;s high school concert was this evening and I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayscafe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}