My latest Tweet was in reference to my ex husband’s uncle Eddy. Eddy would have died about the time that computers were something you saw in a huge truck at the fair and they could print your portrait using x’s and o’s.
Eddy had Muscular Dystrophy and lived out of two rooms in his home, his bedroom and his bathroom and had difficulty dealing with just those rooms. It was a great effort to get him to the Doctor or hospital if it became necessary.
Not being rich his wife had to leave him every day to go out and work and he was alone for hours on end. What a horrible life to be shut away like that in a broken body with a mind that was sharp as a tack.
He killed the hours with Ham Radio and CB. He was loved by all the truckers in SW Ontario and they would stop by the house to see him. Because he monitored all the radios there were a couple of times he aided in the rescue of people in accidents and snow storms.
As I was sitting here reading a great tweet from a columnist in BC, joking with a bunch of zombie killers in AB, receiving tweets from some of the famous or soon to be famous and Facebooking with my son and daughter-in-law in MI and my cousin who could be in either Michigan or Chicago I can’t help but marvel at the wonders of communication that those younger than me take for granted.
How wonderful it would be for Eddy to have been able to see this. How many more people’s lives could he have become a part of with just a laptop, mouse and an internet connect.
Keep Tweeting, Facebooking or whatever boys and girls you never know who that Night Elf is your walking with in WOW might be.
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