Please forgive me, the woman I love and share my bed with has MS also, but she is wheelchair bound and I considered handicapped to be “blatantly obvious”, not minor. I forget that there are people with MS that are more mobile and still suffer the other debilitating symptoms.
At the end of last summer we installed an above-ground pool for her to excercise in. Aquatic exercise can be done frequently, it’s effective, and fun (we do it naked ). KD had regained a lot of her mobility, then winter came and we had to quit for the season but the pool is warming up and we have begun working out in it again. I hope to have it heated next winter.
Whenn I shattered my heel bone, I could only go so far before the pain became unbearable. As tiem went on that distance became greater, but it was a bitch at first.
Seriously, I did not have trouble getting one when I was recovering from a motorcylce accident. The trouble I had was getting rid of it. Every year the California DMV would send a new plastic tag long after I ceased needing it, hell I was walking in 6 months and felt embarrassed to use it. I called and sent them back but no change, so I just threw them away. The accident was in 1987 and in 2003 I actually got one forwarded to me at my new address…
Rick’s shattered heel bone, and broken leg or foot bones in general.
Sprained ankles.
People who’ve just had knee surgery shouldn’t walk too much- my dad got a handicapped tag for that.
Someone with certain asthma triggers might be advised not to do much walking outdoors in certain weather conditions- cold air can trigger asthma, as can smoggy air.
It was a drive-by post from a guest who seems to not understand what General Questions is about. It is NOT his/her first time in doing this.
Can you give me a cite as to what state and under what law an obese person can get a handicapped parking sticker. You sure could be correct. I’d just like to know how common it is.
And, yes, given his/her short posting history, it was a remark by an immature person, IMHO.
Things that may seem hair-trigger to a blind person feeling the elephant’s tail might seem more rational to someone with sight looking at the whole elephant.
As an obese person who has a handicapp placard , it wasn’t the fact that I’m obese that it was isuued to me . It was having a car run over my left leg . People often eyeball me when I get out of my car and although I don’t feel I the need to justify anything I guess it makes sense thats what they are thinking. Just another form of hate imho.
The Oregon DMV says that, to qualify for a parking permit, you have to meet the definition of “disabled person” outlined in ORS 801.235:
(1) A person who has severely limited mobility because of paralysis or the loss of use of some or all of the person’s legs or arms;
(2) A person who is affected by loss of vision or substantial loss of visual acuity or visual field beyond correction; or
(3) A person who has any other disability that prevents the person from walking without the use of an assistive device or that causes the person to be unable to walk more than 200 feet, including but not necessarily limited to:
(a) Chronic heart condition;
(b) Emphysema;
(c) Arthritis;
(d) Rheumatism; or
(e) Ulcerative colitis or related chronic bowel disorder.
I don’t know if any of these qualify as “minor” to you, but I’m sure some of them are relatively invisible. When you say “Handicapped parking tags seem nearly universal these days,” are you saying that the parking lots are actually filled with more cars with placards than not? And when you ask about “minor” conditions, are you actually looking at the people who drive the cars and trying to figure out just how disabled they are?
Temporary permits are available for the period of time a doctor prescribes, not to exceed 6 months.
It’s too late to do anything about it now, of course, but I think your doctor steered you wrong. Unless things are different in AZ (which they may be, for all I know), if you’d taken the forms back to the MVB in person, they probably would have issued the permit while you waited. The only real wait would have been getting another appointment from the doctor to get the paperwork signed. But after that, you could’ve gotten it the same day. Your doctor probably thought he was being funny, but the permit could have saved you some pain and difficulty.
Huh? Could you give some examples? Looking at his posting history, he seems to understand quite well what GQ is about and has started some very interesting threads. I can’t see anything offensive or driveby about what he’s written before now.
About the only criticism I can level about him is that he’s perhaps a bit too prolific with the thread starting, clocking in at 28 new threads in 14 days and that he probably should explore a bit outside GQ. Other than that, he seems like a model doper.
If it came off as a bit rude, I guess its because I see alot of people with these stickers who just get them because they are obese. I don’t think that is fair, when people who cannot help their conditions like paralyzed folks or people with MS, etc, who really need the space might not get it because somebody who can’t control their eating habits can’t be bother to walk a little farther. How do you think someone who can’t walk (who has no control over his condition) would feel if their space was taken up by someone who is just obese but can still walk?
When you can find a cite that shows me that obese people can get these because they are obese, then you have a point. Until then, why not just limit your comments.
Oh cmon. Those posts would be perfectly acceptable if they were posted by a more established poster. In fact, the last one was actually factual. Theres a long tradition of people giving less than helpful, humorous answers to GQ questions. It certainly didn’t warrant as harsh a response as that.
). KD had regained a lot of her mobility, then winter came and we had to quit for the season but the pool is warming up and we have begun working out in it again. I hope to have it heated next winter.