sometimes I just feel bad...

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June 4th of last year i was in an industrial accident. I took a blast of compressed air to the chest and head, (tank charged to 4000 Psi at a range of about a foot and a half, do your own damn math) It blew me backwards off the machine and I fell approximately 7 feet onto poured concrete.

I came out of it with a shattered right wrist and a cracked Pelvis at the Right hip socket. I spent the next 6 months in a rehabilitation facility (Read: Retirement Home) 2 months in a wheelchair, 2 months with a walkter, finally with a cane, then a walking stick till they let me go home.

While I was there I was surrounded by Older people on the down slope of life. All kinds of different ailments and disabilities.

It was a very humbling experience as on one level I was a peer. Disabled to the point i was unable to care for myself. And yet still above these folks because I was going to recover and return to a "normal" life.

Ive never been exactly cold hearted to the elderly, but now i go out of my way to help "honored citizens".

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June 4th of last year i was in an industrial accident. I took a blast of compressed air to the chest and head, (tank charged to 4000 Psi at a range of about a foot and a half, do your own damn math) It blew me backwards off the machine and I fell approximately 7 feet onto poured concrete.

I came out of it with a shattered right wrist and a cracked Pelvis at the Right hip socket. I spent the next 6 months in a rehabilitation facility (Read: Retirement Home) 2 months in a wheelchair, 2 months with a walkter, finally with a cane, then a walking stick till they let me go home.

While I was there I was surrounded by Older people on the down slope of life. All kinds of different ailments and disabilities.

It was a very humbling experience as on one level I was a peer. Disabled to the point i was unable to care for myself. And yet still above these folks because I was going to recover and return to a "normal" life.

Ive never been exactly cold hearted to the elderly, but now i go out of my way to help "honored citizens".

Commendable man. We all should be so empathetic. Thanks for the check. Experience really does shape your reality.