Saffy
The other day Slade and I went into town it was awful more awful for him than it was for me because I really don't think that he has accepted how different my life is going to be from now on.
We went to see a movie and these people were really rude about having to walk round my wheelchair as I was sitting in the aisle.
Slade got really annoyed with them. I could see the one of the muscles in his cheek twitching with tension and he held my hand in a vice like grip the whole of the way through the movie then hardly said a word on the way back to the rehab center.
By the time we got back to my room he had really worked himself up into a frenzy and he started telling me how much he hates what happened and he blames himself and that he wishes it was him in the wheelchair and not me.
People are just ignorant they don't understand what life is like for people like me, some people are just plain scared and don't think freaks like me should be allowed out in public. At the end of the day I don't have a choice in the matter, my mother always told me what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I sincerely hope she was right although it doesn't feel that way at the moment.
The only good thing that's come out of this whole episode is that I guess Slade understands now how difficult going back to school would be.