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Stephanie, my trusted & excellent orthotist at Fisher Building, fixed both of my leg braces today. This is the left AFO - added foot cushioning & two new straps were put on to replace older ones that weren't holding up. My right AFO had specialty heel airhole cushioning & back of ankle padding added & I had her replace the top thigh strap too.

She has put in a funding assistance form for one specialty brace for my lower left leg to deal with some floppy foot & pain related issues when I try to sleep. Hopefully I get full funding assistance because orthotics are hella expensive to pay out of pocket for.

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I tested out a new cane (it's really pretty - purple with colourful flowers) & used my umbrella hat for our rainy day hike today.
We ran into 3 younger hikers with a super rad Aussie shepard dog along the trails & 2 of them complimented me on my blue hair. I responded with - I love colourful things! I'm wearing a mini circus tent on my head, as you can see! Then we all laughed 😂🤣

If you've never been a target of #eugenics by government - you should be grateful. You should use your privileges to try to help those of us targeted by eugenicists.

Why are more of you privileged & not targeted by government eugenicis monsters not doing much to step up to speak up for us - facing erasure by eugenics, by the same governments holding power over us?

WE NEED BRAVE COMRADES!
WHERE ARE YOU?

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@MegaMichelle They won't do that. They won't even buy N95s so PAPR won't ever be considered. I'm tolerated but feel ostracized at work because I'm still protecting with masks, still keep asking for proactive masking - despite being shut down on that multiple times. I'm in a very tiny minority of covid cautious folks at work & in larger local community.

Unmasked plague spreaders repeat #eugenics crap from #BonnieHenry - our evil #BCPublicHealth officer. I HATE HER.

Following up, this week, with a personal lead to adaptive archery lessons with a coach who is very experienced working with teaching students with a wide range of physical disabilities 👍🙂🏹
Jerrod Ball, owner & instructor at Pacific Archery Academy.
pacificarcherybc.com/

pacificarcherybcArchery In Victoria | Victoria | Pacific Archery AcademyPacific Archery Academy provides archery lessons for youth, adults and corporate team building. Excellent for beginer to intermediate level archers.

Do you know who has a lot of credit when it comes to me learning to be more courageous about showing my flawed, imperfect self online, now?

It's due to a bunch elementary school children, at the now closed McTavish Elementary School in #CentralSaanich. I did my practicum there after obtaining my specialized teacher's assistant certifications. I worked with FASD, autistic, down syndrome & physically disabled students there. They represented 30% of student population there.

I did an interactive cultural, racial & disabilities bridging awareness program while there. Part of it was showcasing my life as a child war survivor & how me & my family survived war. The other part was showcasing how I was diagnosed with polio. How I was told I'd be living out of a wheelchair for my whole life. How I beat that diagnosis by sheer willpower & suffering much physical pains while forcing my body to learn how to walk against all odds. How I'm in front of them, walking & talking. I invited the kids to ask any questions they wanted & advised staff/parental witnesses to not interrupt kids during Q&A period. The kids asked amazing questions & I answered all of them, openly & honestly. I had a few parents & teachers squirm when one kid asked to see & touch my leg braces. I showed the kids both my leg braces & told them it's OK to touch them & ask me more questions.

This is how I bridge things & create less fears of disabled peoples, from a young age. Most kids are more curious than outright judgemental. Most kids develop understanding of disabled people, if they're taught well.

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I'm suggesting that everyone else who got similar self congratulatory emails from BC government to take time to email too & let them know those emails are just infuriating people. They don't help us to feel better. It only helps to remind us that we have not been helped but ignored for a very long time. It is not easily forgiveable to be treated like you are disposable & not worthy of getting essential medical help.

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FYI - I got this new family doctor due to pursuing an in office lead from my osteoporosis specialist. He works in same medical clinic. I asked to be put on their internal wait list a few months back. I kept following up, weekly.

I want to be very clear on the fact that the BC government didn't help me obtain this new doctor whatsoever. I was on their huge waitlist for over a year & nothing happened. I pursued 4 different doctors from private leads & that is how it happened. However, our shifty, lying BC government is trying to take credit for work they did not do in me finally having a new family doctor. Their self congratulatory, canned email was insulting to receive today. Bunch of dishonest wankers.

The BC government has treated disabled patients like me as disposable for years. They've greatly harmed our disabled community as a whole much more than they've ever tried to really help us.