sammiealice's blog post - we forget how fortunate we are

I just finished watching a movie "the sessions", the story of a man crippled with polio who loses his virginity at 39 with a sex surrogate.

for all of the complaining I do about lack of physical love I get from hubby, we have had the joy of that intimacy, that warmth, going to that special place. then, even if we don't, I can still gain the release by myself.

then to watch a movies about a man trapped in 18 hours a day in an iron lung, unable to move but to have feeling within his body, to obtain an erection and no way to relieve it except through others (imagine coming while you caregiver bathed you) makes me ashamed to complain about my tiny issues with hubby.

and then to remember that polio has all but been wiped out in much of the world. if you are under about 58, the only thing that you know about polio is that President FDR had it but you have most likely never heard or seen an iron lung http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_pressure_ventilator

I can not imagine what it would be like not to be a sexual being or worse a sexual being unable to share their needs. I can not imagine what it must be like be trapped in a body that does not work. and I know that people exist like that every day---we just have to look at the people around us, and suffer through that pain.

and yet we forget how fortunate we are.

xxxxxxxxxxxx to all.

sammie alice