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FirstLight

(15,553 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:25 AM Jul 22

Have you ever seen a person in a wheelchair working the retail floor?

No...right? like, that's why we have disability etc...so that doesn't need to be a thing for people already struggling to just live in their bodies!

last night I had dreams of exactly that.
That I couldn't make it to my 'new job' on time because my leg wouldn't srtaigten out and work so I coudl drive the car... and when I got there late, they didn't put me on the register (lines of massive people everywhere, chaos and trashed store.) They gave me an admin job doing codes of some sort on the computer... but it was literally in the CENTER of all the lines and people, like I was on display for everyone to heckle etc... the desk was dirty, the notes my mg gave me were impossible to read, and the computer had issues that everyone could see.
It wasn't just embarassing, it was degrading and shameful and feelings of inadeuacy on tope of the inability to run from the situaton because I was confined to a chair...

Talk about deep fears.

the past 2 days or more have been flare central, and it's scary and deep and hhumiliating. I'm trying to start a holistic healing business and here MY body is, being a bitch. been waking up in puddles of sweat... not hormonal. when I look it up as autoimmune symptome I see bad words...like Lupus. or MS

I'm scared and alone and I don't like it.

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Have you ever seen a person in a wheelchair working the retail floor? (Original Post) FirstLight Jul 22 OP

Yes. There's a woman at my local WallyWorld. She's worked there for at least 20 years ms liberty Jul 22 #1

I wonder if FirstLight Jul 22 #2

This is exactly how I've been feeling though I know it's not lactose intolerance and it's not so bad in my gut FirstLight Jul 22 #3

Yes BWdem4life Jul 22 #4

Yes - a used sports equipment store. He was a sales associate rurallib Jul 22 #5

Figured out that it's not just an autoimmune flare. Pharmacy gave me the wrong meds! FirstLight Jul 22 #6

ms liberty

(10,424 posts)

1. Yes. There's a woman at my local WallyWorld. She's worked there for at least 20 years

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:34 AM

Jul 22

Other than her it's a rarity.

FirstLight

(15,553 posts)

2. I wonder if

Reply to ms liberty (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:36 AM

Jul 22

she's keeping the job for money (lol) benefits ( double LOL) or because there's some clause that she has to because otherwise she'lllose disability somehow... it is definitely a rarity

FirstLight

(15,553 posts)

3. This is exactly how I've been feeling though I know it's not lactose intolerance and it's not so bad in my gut

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:29 PM

Jul 22

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..."what do you mean stop the rocking, it is a train?..."
At least I've got a sense of humor about it right 🥺😂😭

BWdem4life

(2,583 posts)

4. Yes

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 02:25 PM

Jul 22

Maybe it's because I live in Seattle.

rurallib

(63,960 posts)

5. Yes - a used sports equipment store. He was a sales associate

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 02:35 PM

Jul 22

very friendly and knowledgeable

FirstLight

(15,553 posts)

6. Figured out that it's not just an autoimmune flare. Pharmacy gave me the wrong meds!

Reply to FirstLight (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 02:46 PM

Jul 22

I've literally been having double the blood pressure medicine and withdrawals from my antidepressant!

I posted another thread if anybody's interested

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