“Liz
I’m submitting this photo & short piece of text for your interactive map, or for the roaringgirl website Bedding Out page, or whatever else you want to do with it.
It was inspired by the Bedding Out conversation today. Here’s my blurb:
“I watched the Bedding Out conversation today and then had to go on an errand.
Since the horrendous onset of sciatica a year ago, I’ve changed from a part-time wheelchair user (with fibromyalgia) to a wheelchair user who can’t sit for more than half an hour, often not even that. (And standing for more than a few minutes is not an option.)
So to go anywhere more than a few miles away, I’ve had to ask friends to drive me while I lie in the back of the car.
Today I had to go a bit further, but there wasn’t anyone I could ask… but I reassured myself that at least the weather had got warmer, so I could break my journey & lie down for a while.
Then while I was lying in the back of the car, in the deserted car park of a disused chapel, it occurred to me:
Bedding Going Out.
This is pretty much the only way I can go out now.
I take a folding sun lounger (er… rain lounger) with me to local events, so that if I have to get off my twingeing backside I can lie on it – if there’s room for the lounger. (Much thanks to the people who put on a music festival here recently, who were incredibly helpful.)
And that’s how I got through the two-hour Atos Stories event we put on this week.
Dr Vole”