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From: Russell.Byars@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Russell Byars)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Locking out people with disabilities
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Date: 6 Dec 90 04:11:20 GMT
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[This is from the Advocacy Conference]

I'm not really disabled, but I was injured at work and had 4 shoulder 
surgeries and the shoulder is non-repairable and I will just have to put 
up with the limited use of it. That's okay, but I was dropped from work 
and am still on disability and no one to help with retraining. I'm 
trying to go to school, but financing is about impossible. I'm living on 
2/3 of what I used to make and can't afford to retrain myself. I was a 
cable tv installer and now I'm out of the labor field and with 
disability insurance set up the way it is. I'll lose money to take a 
meanial job, and can't afford to do anything else. I really feel for 
people with disabilities. I can hardly do things I need to. Well I hope 
that someday people realize that the people who are willing to do the 
most are usually the people who you think have the least.
later Russ

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