tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post114857358436830550..comments2024-01-27T18:00:54.268+00:00Comments on This Is My Blog: HeartMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-90593768045828149102007-06-05T00:23:00.000+01:002007-06-05T00:23:00.000+01:00I agree with your comment about acceptance. If so...I agree with your comment about acceptance. If someone tells me they are homeless who am I to argue? If someone shares online that they are in a wheelchair and having difficulties then it hurts nobody if I accept it at face value and any comment I make should hopefully be helpful, not hurtful. Someone who reads the comment may be helped by it. But it takes all kinds and all we can do is ignore the naysayers. It would be lovely if just one of them actually spouted a teeny bit of content. I think I will go out and buy that book "Abandoned".Geckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09805029131877074052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-1148983498785512422006-05-30T11:04:00.000+01:002006-05-30T11:04:00.000+01:00This is my blog, not the Wandering Scribe debate b...This is my blog, not the Wandering Scribe debate board.<BR/><BR/>It is entirely possible that Wandering Scribe is a con artist of the highest order, using the plight of homeless people for his/her own means.<BR/><BR/>But I'm a person whose own life has suddenly and unexpectedly gone right down the tubes.<BR/><BR/>And before that, I worked for a charitable organisation where I met all sorts of people in all sorts of situations and I can categorically state that the situation Wandering Scribe describes herself as being in is by no means unusual in the slightest. The only unusual part is having been interviewed by the newspapers who, this being 2006, were able to include links to her blog.<BR/><BR/>I know how I would feel if people started saying that I wasn't really who I said I was or in the situation I was in. To sit in my wheelchair longing to have my life and job back while people who've never met me shout "don't believe her! She has a life and a job and goes running five miles every morning!"<BR/><BR/>IF Wandering Scribe is genuine, can you imagine being shivering and hungry in a cold damp car having got back from the library, where you read a few more job rejections and some blog commenters shouting "don't believe her! She has a house and money and plenty to eat and is laughing at you all!"<BR/><BR/>And even if she IS making it all up... so what? What have I lost by taking it at face value and offering a few supportive comments? A few minutes here and there. A hell of a lot less than I've lost than if I'd been harrassing and abusing someone who turned out to be a genuinely vulnerable, homeless person. Then I'd have lost my humanity.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-1148912385082646342006-05-29T15:19:00.000+01:002006-05-29T15:19:00.000+01:00I know you're intelligent enough not to fall for m...I know you're intelligent enough not to fall for miracles. Just want to say... don't fall for Wandering Scribe's lies, either. She's a con artist.squarecirclehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08516571916036812379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-1148843964757288032006-05-28T20:19:00.000+01:002006-05-28T20:19:00.000+01:00Just because I have "a lot" of pain, doesn't mean ...Just because I have "a lot" of pain, doesn't mean that suddenly everybody else's pain stops.<BR/><BR/>That'd be like saying that because people in the third world are dying of famine, no one here in the UK has a right to say "cor, I'm getting really hungry!"Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-1148743671057156722006-05-27T16:27:00.000+01:002006-05-27T16:27:00.000+01:00I found your Blog via Wandering Scribes BLOG. It m...I found your Blog via Wandering Scribes BLOG. It makes me feel terrible complaining about the tinest things, like the pain I get in my knees (I just blogged about it today infact). <BR/><BR/>I hope you get an appointment soon, but you should try complaining to your local MP or dropping into their 'surgery' if you haven't already. That often tends to speed things up a little. Also some genuninely do want to help and if there is a problem with your local NHS they wont know about it until told...<BR/><BR/>My mum suffers hyper-tension and even that worries me, but she has it under control for now. It's a weird transition when the kids start to look after the parents.. mentally or phsically! <BR/><BR/>I hope you are feeling well today and I think I'll be checking back in to read your blog from time to time. :-)Leirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09328082316574857696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-1148594331928301772006-05-25T22:58:00.000+01:002006-05-25T22:58:00.000+01:00That at least is where I'm onto a winner. There wa...That at least is where I'm onto a winner. There was an occasion just before Christmas where I went to the cinema with a friend without telling anyone. Obviously I wasn't answering my home phone and my mobile was off. After a couple of hours mum was *really* worried about me, so she came to my flat, I wasn't there.<BR/><BR/>The fret she had about what might have happened to her sick daughter gave me a strong bargaining chip when it came to persuading her to keep her own mobile phone turned on and handy (we tend to text each other to say if we're turning off for a reason).<BR/><BR/>My mum tries to be cavalier ("I've survived one already" and so on) but I think under that she's as worried as anyone else.<BR/><BR/>Parents, eh?Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-1148585513113712942006-05-25T20:31:00.000+01:002006-05-25T20:31:00.000+01:00eep. I hope it gets sorted. I find myself worryi...eep. I hope it gets sorted. I find myself worrying about my dad for much the same reason. He has that little spray thing ever since he started suffering from angina pains. He's very cavalier about it (ex squaddie won't admit to pain) He worried my mum when he takes the dog for a walk and is out for longer than usual and never takes his mobile.<BR/>I do hope they pull their finger out and get your mum and appointmentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com