This little gem sort of jumped at me one day in hospital. I was lying on my bed unable to move anything from my kneck down and I thought 'what is the one thing I miss more than anything else?' Now my immediate reply should have been 'playing guitar' but that was so far back in my mind at that stage that I'd almost forgotton that it was something I did every day. And of course you'd think I should matbe say human contact but being a quadraplecic, trust me, you get all kinds of human contact that you havn't had since you were a baby. So as I lay there with the sun shining in the window I began to examine my senses. I could taste everything even though I had to be fed all the time. I could see and hear perfectly so DVD's and CD's were in plenty supply as was TV and other abbrievated electrical goods. Having spent so long in a hospital ward with five other menI was absolutely sure that my sense of smell wasn't affected, oh boy!!
That just left my sense of touch but I couldn't really test that because I couldn't move. It wasn't untill I came out of hospital that it dawned on me what I missed most.
A friend of mine called to the house and insisted that he take me out for a bit of a wander down the town, I hadn't done this in months. So I loaded into my wheelchair and off we went. Half way to our destination the skies opened and my friend cursed the heavens and the rain poured.
That's when I realised what I really missed, the feeling of rain on my face. Normally we shield against it and cover ourselves and run from it but this time I just wanted to feel the thousands of prickly drops splash across my face and hands. It's maybe a funny thing to miss but I didn't know I missed it untill that moment, I didn't know what I really missed untill it was brought back to me. I think what I'm trying to say is that it's never the flatscreen TV or the MP3 phone with camera and optional web browser that we should appreciate but the smallest drop of rain that made this blogger feel human again
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