My Life
I'm a person with a handicap called Muscular Dystrophy.
In fact, I'm trying to live like an other persons. Since I was
young, I had a lot of bad experience like my disease who take
my muscular force day by day, arms, legs and feet fracture and
a couple of surgery. I thing I pass through those events because
I have goods friends and a good family circle. For my journal
I found a story who my handicap play a second role but it's not
the major thing in this bad experience. If you're ready to read
a strange story, welcome to my world!
Has you know, the life is sometime difficult for everybody. But
imagine when you have a major handicap. Who don't know the things
you have to cross. First of all, as you know, with my disease
I must use my wheelchair to move. Since I can't use my legs, a
need somebody to take care of me, like to go to the bathroom,
to wash me and to sleep. When my story began, it was November
25 1988 around 6:00 o'clock. I was just finish my shower in the
basement , when my nurse decide to go play Nintendo beside the
bathroom. During this time, I watched TV in the same room. Everything
was alright when we heard a strange noise.
Maybe ten seconds later, all the house began to shake and then,
I realize it was earthquake. My friend and my nurse up step and
forget me in the darkest basement. Because we had a black out,
my elevator doesn't walk. In the same time, my house shake again
and I shout to my nurse to help me. He took me like never before
and he put me on the sofa in the first floor. I was very anxious
like my friend, because It was my first earthquake and I wasn't
able to be relax. During this time my house stop to move. During
five minutes we doesn't able to move and speak, but in my mind
it wasn't the same.
It was the first earthquake since 20 years felt in Quebec, because here in Quebec the soil is very hard and no one told me that a 6,5 earthquake can happened here. Perhaps during 3 hours it was a big black out it my town, and a heard on the radio that a second earthquake can always happened. Me and my friend began to laugh because we are very anxious to live an important event like this and we realized the life was very fragile against the nature. Maybe 10 or 20 minutes after the earthquake at the shopping center, many person had robbed a lot of thing like radio, dress, food and jewelry. For me, a past this night without my wheelchairs for the same reason that no electricity to start my elevator, this night and for the rest of week all the people speak only about that and each person had is own story about that. Like a was in my kitchen and all the things began to shake or I was in my shower and I fall on the floor.
The best story about that it's happened to my sister, she was with is basketball team in the middle of an important game. The ball began to rebound and no one can catch the ball at all, because all the gym moved. I hope to never feel in another earthquake because you don't know what to do and you can know when this thing we'll be stop, imagine the person who live in Los Angeles, Mexico or Tokyo and you can feel 15 or 20 earthquake per years. It's very hard to imagine they can live with those thing under her feet.
I choose this topics because it's a sad thing but it's funny, It was hard to me to find a topic with this kind of experience. I can speak about my handicap to inform the people around me, but when you past 15 years in a wheelchairs for me you're very sick to repeat the same thing all the time. I have a lot of terrible problem happened to me since a was born, like to be able to live with that and to push our limit all the time and it's why a choose a topic others that my handicap.
This earthquake didn't have a repetition after the big shock, but for me the rest of week was very hard like to go on basement was very afraid or to be alone, because if a earthquake began when I'm alone nothing I can do. It's why I'm happy to live here, this happened rarely like the rest of Canada. This earthquake came to Lac St-Jean, 300 miles away from here wow! Imagine if the soil was made in send it we will make many dead. Last years a little earthquake happened again but I have a good experience and it's why, I laugh a lot with that. This time I was in my room on the first floor with my friend and I felt much better.
I will speak about an others topics, because I can continue to write with this story, it was here in Quebec but in particularly in Charlesbourg. Oh, I change my mind and I decide to continue with my first topics because last night gave me some new idea. If a other earthquake arrive again I hope to be in safe place like outside or on road, but image the place where I don't wont to be, like elevator, a basement or in a big building at the 23 floors. The latest point for me about that, sometimes I dream about a big earthquake like the end of the world and it's why I don't like it.
In conclusion, In my mind, I like very much the earthquake and hope to feel it again, because for me it's a big thriller when you can't able to move. Each person have is own reason to like or don't like this natural phenomenon. I am a anxious person and each thing happened to me that I don't have the control make me very nervous, like the dead, my health or my family. Since this time I realize that I can control my nervousness, when a bad thing happened to me. Today my self confidence is better and for me is the only reason why I told you this story!