I was reading a story by Lisa Mcgarry earlier today in which she says Heather Mills has declared she would like to start a Reality TV show featuring stars living a disabled life.

Heather says she would like to take the likes of Gordon Ramsey and blind fold him so he would have to experience what it would be like to live as a blind person and put the likes of Eamonn Holmes (Host of Dancing On Ice) in a wheel chair so he could experience life from that perspective.

Well I can see merit in this idea, following a letter i received from Hobart Head Office of CentreLink Australia 2 days ago in which my own appeal for assistance was rejected on the grounds that i am not disabled.

I am thinking that decision makers within welfare agencies should be given the opportunity to live the lives of those they are judging for claims of compensation in order to get a true perspective of how lives really change.

HOWEVER: I personally don’t think that it would be fair to inflict even half of the full impact of injury or disability onto someone.

How can you show the full impact that disability puts on a person, their family, their friends and in many cases the community .

I do feel it would be a great idea to show some of how hard it can be, but how could you make a whole family go broke because each one is loaning to the other for survival while they can’t work?

Would it be fair to dose them up on medication so they can’t remember what is wrong with them?

And how can you show an uninjured person the true feeling of continue pain day in day out? Or a phantom pain that keeps you up all night 2 toes up and 3 curled tight, the sensation of a 6 inch nail ramming through the side of your foot and a throbbing pain where your tibular was smashed by the bonnet of a car?

I have thought hard about this over the years, and after realizing that I would not be a nice person if I really showed someone the feeling I have and I can’t explain it then I should just do my best to live with it.

I look forward to seeing if this show eventuates and just how far the television will be allowed to show towards the true situation of many disabled around the world.

After seeing the true cost of an artificial leg and comparing it to actual bills in US, Australia and New Zealand, I feel that the public needs to know whats happening with many disabled people right in their own back yards and not just in Haiti or Cambodia where both are now estimated at 40,000 each.

Whats Your Opinions???

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