Eve Nicholls: I'm glad you had it when you needed it. Temporary injury (and sympathies, that looks rough) is really different from long-term disability.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

Ageist as fuck. Also…not sure how many people today know this but the longest ever serving president was confined to a wheelchair. Unassisted mobility isn’t a requirement to run this country.

* a wheelchair user No one is "confined to a wheelchair" or "wheelchair bound", they're not prisons and we're not chained in. They're mobility aids and they're amazing. People put off using them for far too long because of this kind of language.

I didn't mind mine, but I was also happy to see it go.

I'm glad you had it when you needed it. Temporary injury (and sympathies, that looks rough) is really different from long-term disability.

For sure. I'll probably be back in one again, I shattered my pelvis in a motorcycle crash and once it healed I had to learn to walk again. It really made me more conscious of people who need them permanently, even those who only need them intermittently.

Yeah, my partner said the same after he had his first DVT and needed to borrow one of my walking sticks. Since the second DVT, he uses it most of the time. He picked a really lovely one, black with gold tendrils, and I'm proud of him for rocking it. Anyway, best of luck!

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