Yard Sale

Find glendale yard sales on Yard Sale Search MOVING/YARD SALE Saturday April 27, 2013 Time: 6:00am -WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING- Proceeds from the sale to help pay for my brother's moving expenses and upcoming surgery. The hospital will not operate on him until he pays them $500.00 upfront. My brother has Lymphoma and the surgery was to be May 2nd to determine the type of Lymphoma and the stage cancer he has so he can get the right treatment. So now the surgery is postponed until he can get enough money. PLEASE COME and SUPPORT this sale! Thank YOU :) Find glendale yard sales on Yard Sale Search

Preconceived Perceptions !

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This week was MS Awareness Week. Well- being someone with MS- it brought to my attention the way many people have a distorted preconceived perception of people with MS or anyone with any handicap!

Some employers think "handicap" means that a person has no skills and can not make a contribution to their businesses- this is so WRONG! Sometimes, those of us with MS got the disease because we are "over achievers" and therefore work extra hard to prove our "worth".

I get so frustrated trying to prove my self to people, over and over again. Especially to those who have these preconceived perceptions. 

On the other hand you have those who have a preconceived picture in their head as to what a "handicap" person is suppose to look like!!

This week, on my way to church, I pulled into a convenience store. I parked in a handicap spot and before I could get out of the car- I noticed a man holding the door open for me. Or so, I thought, that is what he was doing?! Well, because it was taking time for me to get out of the car and I saw he was still standing holding the door, I yelled over "That's OK" giving him a heads up, that I am slow; so there was no need for him to wait on me. Well, to my surprise, his response was "Do you have handicap parking?" YIKES! For all he knew- I  had NO legs- since he only saw my head in the window of my car when I pulled into the spot.

I replied, "Yes, I do sir." Then he said "Where is your handicap sign?" My reply, "I have a handicap license plate, sir." Some people out side who witnessed this conversation, looked surprised and looked at me as if to apologize for this man's behavior. Here, I thought he was being a gentleman holding open the door when really he was just waiting to yell at me for parking in a handicap spot, thinking I wasn't handicap. 

I guess in this case, maybe I was the one who had the distorted perception, huh?