Lessons learned from STRANGERS.

Nov 19, 2008 04:52

To make a long story short: Get your prostate checked early or you may need laser surgery on your testicles. I'm uninjured, but there's a story to go with this moral, and I'll be sure to have my prostate checked before it's too late.

Sorry I didn't fill this out more before. Basically there was a guy in the bathroom who started talking to me about his health problems. He's one of the folk who uses a mobility chair around campus. The chairs I was planning to write about the increasing occurrence of before meeting this guy up close.

His mobility chair is parked evenly between the stalls and the urinals. Ironically, his mobility chair doesn't fit in the handicapped stall, but he's walking around in a circle now. He states his relief that I'm not the janitor coming in to kick him out. Apparently, this has happened to him before while cleaning his nuts. He accents the 'nu' in an way that makes it sound like he's proclaiming "nauts" at the end of his sentence.

Nothing is wrong with his legs, but what is between them is so uncomfortable he's walking with a gait that causes his slightly hunched back to describe an arc from his left knee to his right knee. It's understandable that he chose to use the mobility chair to get around.

(((more to write...)))

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