Disability

It just feels good to vent. My family doesn't like to burden everyone with this, but the loss of a leg is truly traumatic, and to have that decision made by some bureaucrat feels so unjust.

My sister is a big activist for social justice, and this is just discouraging for her. She's upset enough about Trump and the Republicans, and the Republican philosophy has hit home for us in such a brutal way. To one day be active and working and to lose all of that because of decisions made in an office. She's feeling very discouraged about living in the US right now.

To top it all off, she gets flamed daily by people who attack her for her disability, call her a whiner, etc., and they are ALL Trump supporters. A former bandmate of hers, who voted for Trump, actually told her, "I don't feel sorry for you. Suck it up." These people are running our lives!

Update: now my sister tells me that her doctor has to perform the amputation even though he STRONGLY recommended against it! Ridiculous. Medicine in this country isn't even about real medicine.

Yeesh. Amputating a body part because it's cheaper than another surgery. I saw that in Michael Moore's film but in that film it seemed downright freakish. Now I see how real that is. Some clown in an office actually makes these decisions. It sickens me when I think of what type of person that is.