Well, after several toads, I found a prince of a vehicle! It’s a sporty hatchback with just 72,000 miles, and it comes with features I’ve never had in my 40 years of driving cars, a moon roof and electric windows! No more struggling to unroll windows whilst barreling down the road!
Something one probably doesn’t think about too; when we Charcoter’s (Charcot Foot sufferer!) are tooling down the breezeway in our car, we are the same as everyone else, and our disability disappears! When driving about, I am just a normal person without a handicap, and it feels so good, so free.
It’s just a matter of weeks now before I head to my own home for the first time in 11 months, and the combination of that plus the freedom of the new car is making me very intolerable towards my disability…every aspect of it is frustrating me and pissing me off! This is something I suspect we go through after a certain amount of time…a restless, stir crazy kind of angst. I hope that I will be able to walk again rather than face a bone failure, because I honestly don’t know if I am capable of doing this all over again! Time will tell.
For me and all my fellow Charcoters, it’s one day at a time, hang in there and pray for miracles!
-Cassandra, Charcotchacha copyright 2015