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In an Instant Part Four
You sit on the hospital bed, waiting for the doctor to come back with the release forms. You are going home, and it feels good, but you are nervous too. You can’t help but stare at the wheelchair, the reminder of what sone angry man child did. Did you regret it, no, your students were alive, but you knew you’d face challenges. Challenges unlike any you ever faced before.
You sigh, staring at the wheelchair, a reminder of your new life.
You’ll learn to navigate, to adjust but even in the twenty first century you are not on even ground.
You know people still have misconceptions about those with disabilities, you’ve seen someone talk loudly at someone blind, as if that would somehow cure their blindness. You just shook your head knowing that it was all ridiculous, but you didn’t say anything.
Staring at that wheelchair now, you regret that. You should have spoken up, instead of watch that girl walk away, with tears falling down her face, as you listened to her white cane hit the blacktop.
How were people going to treat you now? How would your students see you?
You are going home now, not to your apartment, a second floor walk up, you will never live there again. But you have your sister and Chloe, that’s more than many people have you know that.
