It’s not actually my new pet peeve but it’s one of my newer ones nonetheless. And this peeve is any place that is inaccessible or difficult to access with power wheelchairs. Medical facilities are the worst! You would think they would be the most sensitive to this.
One example was my ophthalmology appointment on September 21. The front doors were narrow and there was clutter along the hallway that I had to slalom around. I had to enter the tiny exam room in reverse.
I spoke with the office manager about this. Call it my personal crusade to alert oblivious businesses or offices about this issue.
The purpose of my ophthalmology appointment was due to the blurriness in my right eye. This happened after my bout with shingles a few months back. This was after my kidney stone surgery while still in the hospital. I took steroid eye drops that helped but never cleared the problem. The ophthalmologist said this may eventually clear up but the blurriness may be permanent.
This sucks because the blurriness is fairly significant. My brain feels like it’s working overtime to compensate between the two visions when watching TV or reading. Sometimes I close my right eye because of fatigue.
There has been a lot of collateral damage to my health since the accident. I’ve had hyper tone, kidney stones, surgeries for drop foot and hammer toes, baclofen pump revisions, ileostomy surgery, UTIs, yada yada yada. The list goes on. Then there’s the mental health toll. Anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and suicidal thoughts and plans. I feel a shell of myself much of the time. At least my mental faculties are still firing.
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