A wheelchair isn't a punishment, is only a vehicle for your dreams.

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Hi dear Ruth, Kay and

I understand your fear to the need to use wheelchair, it is not a desireable

situation but it isn´t so terrible like you can imaginate. I would like to talk

you my history.

When I was a child –12 years old - my CMT carry me to my first wheelchair. But I

wasn´t afraid, really I was very happy, because I knew that my wheelchair would

be my passpport to the future. Riding in my “carriage without horse”, like my

boyfriend calls it, I arrive to the school, to the university and to the

postgradutes school. In it I go everyday to my job. And in it I has my first

kiss, in it fall in love and from it could seduce many men an many friends.

I say to my patients that never lost their hope, but I say too that there are so

much forms for the hope. Really my hope isn´t to leave my wheelchair because I

know it isn´t a real posibility for me, but I have the hope that from my

wheelchair I will be a very wisdom teacher of psychology, a writer, a wife, a

mother and a very hopeful woman.

I am not saying “ your future, like the mine, is on a wheelchair”. I say that is

a posibility and I in your place would work very hard for prevent it, but close

your eyes isn´t enought for disappear the font of your fear... remenber that a

wheelchair isn´t a punishment is only a vehicle for your dreams.

Sincerely,

, from Colombia

P.S. I hope you can understand my english because my natural language is spanish