Thank you, Ms. Buoniconti, for the courage to share details about your life experience as someone who has physical needs which require the care of others to get through each day.
In your column Thursday, you speak, yet again, for people from whom we so seldom hear. You describe the vulnerability of having to rely on caregivers who may or may not be trustworthy. And you expanded my understanding of the way new restrictions on access to abortion can put more people at risk of severe harm or even death. When I think of the multi-faceted severe trauma this can cause it is almost incomprehensible.
I have lived life as an able-bodied person. I have had two friends with chronic, debilitating illnesses which have helped to sensitize me. But now as I approach my 70th birthday, I have had to seek intensive medical help for cancer (good prognosis now!), and other ailments of older age, for which I have had to rely on others as never before.
The sooner we understand this process, the better advocates we can be for less-abled people, as well as for ourselves, and the better off we all will be.
Thank you again, Ms. Buoniconti. Keep writing! We need your voice in our lives.
Susanae Glovacki
Greenfield