Walking Pneumonia

Not long ago, I had a conversation with a woman who uses a wheelchair and it changed my life. It turned my whole world upside down. I now feel more vulnerable and fragile than I’ve ever felt before. Because this woman told me that she had once been diagnosed with walking pneumonia. I replied, "How did that happqen? You can’t even walk.” And then I said, “You got all of the bad stuff that comes with being a walkie without any of the good stuff.” Up until that minute, I always thought that this was one of the advantages of being crippled: Some of my crippled friends once told me that they wanted to publish a book entitled 101 Advantages of Quadriplegia. I remember that they listed one of the advantages as being that your friends never ask you to help them move. And I said, “No, but they always ask you if they can use your van.” I felt inspired to contribute to this worthy endeavor. I figured that I had been around enough as a cripple to be able to come up with a whole bunch of cripple advantages, other than all of the prime parking (in theory). And then later on it occurred to me that another advantage of not being able to walk was that at least you can’t catch walking pneumonia. But now I knew that even that wasn’t necessarily the case. This was indeed ridiculous. It was like a person who was born biologically female being diagnosed with prostate cancer. (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH