Dear Folks,

About two weeks ago, I swung a five-gallon bucket of water while watering my buckets of flowering plants. Whatever I did hurt my back, mainly the vertebrae. So after X-ray, Cat, and MRI, my crazy pain is related to disk number four. It's improving.

The point I have learned about mobility is heartening. I've never studied our floor so carefully. I've never thought much about curbs or steps. My appreciation for people who are in chairs or who depend on canes or walkers has grown.

I am getting better and starting therapy in November. But now that I've walked in the shoes of a disabled person, my eyes have been opened.

Just saying.