I have followed a school medicine physiotherapy program over 30 years, in which we have trained my body and focused on body control: on the activation and strengthening of muscles and muscle groups. Physiotherapy has been concentration, pushing up, straining and sometimes the muscles have been full of acids. Because my muscles are weak I…
Five years after I became handicapped I noticed that the past years had taught me more about life than 19 years before I became disabled.No-one had prepared me for my new challenges. I had to count on my own resources. This resource is the good old common sense. Emotional Intelligence is basically common sense, in…
I have been wondering why are waterbeds marketed basically for wealthy people as an ego flattering place to sleep in. According to adverts waterbeds are good for two things and the other is sleeping. I bought my first waterbed in the beginning of the 1980s, as they came to Finland. The reason was very simple:…
As I became physically disabled over 30 years ago I was very aware of my reduced mobility, but mentally I was the same person as I was before. I saw my illness as most people do: negative.But I didn’t feel that I would be imperfect or IN-valid somehow. For the first time in my life…
In the past months I have wondered what kind of a magic lies behind the fact that physical exercise is so pleasant with my physiotherapist: At best it is not exhausting and everything is happening by itself. But when I want to exercise with my assistant it is ordeal to the soul. I could do…
Just before the fatal New Years Eve I had finished the curriculum of my school. I had only the final exam before me that was needed to seal the school education.I had accomplished the first tests as I was in rehabilitation centre. In spring 1980 I completed the second part of the exam. Someone thought…
After nine months hospital and rehabilitation treatment in 1979 I returned home and all the memories about previous months faded away. I felt that I was totally alone with my handicap.Medicine had done what it could to help me onto my feet. Thereafter I myself had to find a way to continue with my life….
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