Category: Uncategorized
-
Are You Ready?
There is something strange about surgery. You know the day is coming. It sits on the calendar for weeks. You talk about it, prepare for it, and think about it. Yet when the day finally arrives, it still feels oddly unreal. That…
No comments on Are You Ready? -
Poets Walk
Nothing stays as it is for long. The sky changes, shadows lengthen, and light shifts across water. What seems lasting is often in motion, changing in ways that are easy to miss until they are gone. Clouds drift, reflections fade, and the…
-
Waiting for Tomorrow
The clock is ticking down. In less than twenty-four hours there will be surgery, anesthesia, discharge instructions, restrictions, and a sling waiting at the end of it all. Tonight there is nervous energy instead. Laundry is running. Thoughts are racing. Writing helps…
-
Beautiful Delay
The door catches before the latch. A voice lingers in the hallway, no words, only shape, then fades beneath unhurried steps. Inside, a trace of warmth where someone lingered longer than they should. Beautiful Delay By Kerry A. Wiley Even the light…
-
What Happens Between Visits
Clinical care is built on what can be observed at specific points in time. Clinical decisions rely on these snapshots, such as tests, scans, and recorded symptoms. Each captures only a moment within a longer process. Progression, however, is continuous. It occurs…
-
Function, Delayed
Function narrows before anyone calls it loss. The first change was subtle. The sensation between the ring finger and pinky on the left hand felt off. It was numb, but not in a way that was complete or alarming, just dulled enough…
-
Blue Without Boundary
The last notification fades and the screen goes dark. The reflex to reach for it again stays. The name that might have been checked doesn’t appear: no mark of absence, only a space where nothing arrives. A faint residue remains, not quite…
-
Accessible, But Not Usable: The Gap That Limits Participation
There are moments when barriers are easy to recognize. A building may have a step at its entrance without a ramp. A service may not be offered at all. A doorway may exist but cannot be used by everyone. These situations are…
-
Misaligned
The floor isn’t where it should be. The doors open. The step lands, then misreads, doesn’t quite meet. A quick jolt. The doors close. Next. It repeats. The step meets too soon. A check in the motion. Already past. Gone. It happens again. Not the same way twice. The body…
-
Beyond Reaction: The Work of Sustaining Inclusion
In the recent Wiley’s Walk article “The Infrastructure of Inclusion: What Is at Risk”, the focus moves beyond proposed changes to disability services to consider something less visible but more consequential, the conditions that make participation possible. The move to consolidate funding…