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amberfocusSo I will be posting LoF in the next little while. I had planned to do it earlier today, but the day just sort of got away from me. Well, and Victoria didn't have it back to me until six, either, because she was busy being the mother of twins who are rapidly rolling all over the place. I may have to get a new second beta when those twins start crawling/walking, as she says it's getting harder to sit at her laptop on the couch now that the babies don't just stay where she leaves them on their blanket on the floor and she hates using a playpen except when she is cooking.
It's nine days post-op. Chris leaves tomorrow so he took me to the grocery store. Well, we went to two grocery stores since the first one did not have all of what I wanted. I rode on one of those scooter things with the basket in front of it. The first store is better for handicapped accessibility. Plenty of parking spaces near the door and big, wide aisles, and the scooters are right there at the front as soon as you walk in the door (which took me quite a lot longer than normal (and if someone had challenged me about my handicapped parking pass today I would have beaned them on the head with my cane, I'm pretty sure). The scooters were not that great at maneuvering around, so wide aisles were a must. They were having a huge produce sale and some fish on sale as well so I got a pound and a half of wild caught Pacific sockeye salmon for $8.99, which is almost unheard of. Of course it had to be sold by today (and we ate it for dinner), so that may be why it was so cheap. I got enough produce for a week and a half, so I didn't have to go shopping again until after they take out the first cath.
The second store had no empty handicapped parking. It never does except maybe at night after seven. It only has six slots anyway and they aren't really near the front door (I don't get that) and everything else close was full so we parked further away. The scooters are kept almost all the way back across the front of the store from where you come in. We had to get someone from guest services (sounds like a hotel) to come clean off one of the scooters because someone had mashed blueberries into the place where your feet go and the last thing I needed was that on the bottom of my shoes. The other one had what looked and smelled like dried spilt milk on it. Once one was clean we took it, but it was harder getting around. Some idiot guy was walking next to his shopping cart instead of behind it so he was taking up the whole aisle. I mean, seriously? Next to your shopping cart while you are just walking down the aisle? It's one thing to stop and stand next to your cart to get something, but while walking?
One of the aisles has a wooden structure displaying natural body washes (not in the body wash aisle) on one side and a metal rack displaying something else on the other side. It was really, really hard to make that corner, but I needed to go down it to (TMI time) get pads (still bleeding from the surgery) and didn't want to go up the aisle next to it just to come down it from the other end. Those aisles are long and I would have had to back out of it to get back out. I absolutely love this store when I am mobile, but looking at it through handicapped eyes really made me see it differently.
Anyway we got everything that I think I shall need until I'm much more mobile, but it totally, totally wiped me out. So I plopped and mindlessly played facebook games for a while. Now we've got a few little things to do before I can get to posting the chapter.
It's nine days post-op. Chris leaves tomorrow so he took me to the grocery store. Well, we went to two grocery stores since the first one did not have all of what I wanted. I rode on one of those scooter things with the basket in front of it. The first store is better for handicapped accessibility. Plenty of parking spaces near the door and big, wide aisles, and the scooters are right there at the front as soon as you walk in the door (which took me quite a lot longer than normal (and if someone had challenged me about my handicapped parking pass today I would have beaned them on the head with my cane, I'm pretty sure). The scooters were not that great at maneuvering around, so wide aisles were a must. They were having a huge produce sale and some fish on sale as well so I got a pound and a half of wild caught Pacific sockeye salmon for $8.99, which is almost unheard of. Of course it had to be sold by today (and we ate it for dinner), so that may be why it was so cheap. I got enough produce for a week and a half, so I didn't have to go shopping again until after they take out the first cath.
The second store had no empty handicapped parking. It never does except maybe at night after seven. It only has six slots anyway and they aren't really near the front door (I don't get that) and everything else close was full so we parked further away. The scooters are kept almost all the way back across the front of the store from where you come in. We had to get someone from guest services (sounds like a hotel) to come clean off one of the scooters because someone had mashed blueberries into the place where your feet go and the last thing I needed was that on the bottom of my shoes. The other one had what looked and smelled like dried spilt milk on it. Once one was clean we took it, but it was harder getting around. Some idiot guy was walking next to his shopping cart instead of behind it so he was taking up the whole aisle. I mean, seriously? Next to your shopping cart while you are just walking down the aisle? It's one thing to stop and stand next to your cart to get something, but while walking?
One of the aisles has a wooden structure displaying natural body washes (not in the body wash aisle) on one side and a metal rack displaying something else on the other side. It was really, really hard to make that corner, but I needed to go down it to (TMI time) get pads (still bleeding from the surgery) and didn't want to go up the aisle next to it just to come down it from the other end. Those aisles are long and I would have had to back out of it to get back out. I absolutely love this store when I am mobile, but looking at it through handicapped eyes really made me see it differently.
Anyway we got everything that I think I shall need until I'm much more mobile, but it totally, totally wiped me out. So I plopped and mindlessly played facebook games for a while. Now we've got a few little things to do before I can get to posting the chapter.
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Date: 2011-07-25 05:21 am (UTC)As for accessibility... can SOMEONE please explain why the handicapped accessible stall in women's restrooms is always the one farthest away from the door? So you have to walk all the way down to the end of the row to get to it? Or why so many shops put the changing table in there? So that if someone wants to change her baby's diaper, she'll be in that stall and take bloody forever so it's not available for a disabled person who NEEDS TO GO, DAMMIT!
Have people been challenging you about your parking pass? I'm sorry about that - I know it's frustrating. I get that too, although not as much as I used to when I was younger. People would just get in my face and yell or insult me or even swear at me for parking in the "blue spots" (as my kids used to call them) - accuse me of using someone else's permit, stuff like that. Because I don't always have to use a cane or crutch so I don't LOOK disabled. When I complained about this once to my doctor, he told me to "just pretend to limp." LOL
I like your comment about seeing the store differently through handicapped eyes (although of course your eyes aren't handicapped - GRAMMAR POLICE ATTACK!) *grin* Seriously, though, it it rather a different world, isn't it? I really hope you won't need the parking permit or the electric carts and so on for very long and I'm very glad you were able to get out and do the grocery at all! *hugs*
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Date: 2011-07-25 06:50 am (UTC)Anyway, I'm glad you're all stocked up for the time being. Hopefully by the time you need to go out again, you'll be feeling much stronger. ;) *hugs* ♥!
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Date: 2011-07-26 01:27 am (UTC)Though I guess all of us have our zonked out days, eh?