NEWS IS CRAP!!!

[rbnyc]

And I'm an idiot! On Thursday night, a colleague died. He was a coworker, my personal trainer and a friend. On Friday I was approached by some senior staffers to see if I felt comfortable talking to a reporter about my experience with Danny.

Most of you either remember or have heard me talk about the car accident in which I was severely injured 4 years ago. Before I started working with Danny, I had reached a plateau in my recovery. I was still having a lot trouble walking up and down stairs. Danny gave me an exercise which helped tremendously. He also understood how important it was to me to get back everything the car accident had taken away from me and gave me tremendous personal support. Because of my work with Danny, I can walk up and down stairs normally again.

I was very careful when talking to the paper not to over-dramatize, and to keep my comments focused on Danny's nature and the way he touched the people around him.

The paper said that Danny helped a "partially paralyzed woman learn to walk again!"

Why am I surprised? I thought the story would be a warm tribute to a person who will be dearly missed in my community. Instead, it has complicated my grief--and what will people think? Will they think I SAID that? They know it's not true.

I understand the need to simplify and sum things up. But to say that I was partially paralyzed is clearly a distortion. Danny was special enough...he didn't have to make the crippled walk and turn water into wine to be important to us and to deserve our tribute and our thoughts and prayers.

I was just one tiny, tiny little person in Danny's life. There are probably hundreds of stories like mine.

I never should have talked to a reporter. I'm just dumb!

EDIT: typo

[idgiehkt]

1. wow.

My condolences on the loss of your friend. :hug:

I've had a couple of negative experiences like that, too. They really take some liberties sometimes.

[rbnyc]

2. I was talking to my dad...

...and he was so mad! He said that any time you see a news story that you know something about, they have always got it wrong. So it's safe to assume that NONE of it is right. People base their view of the world on this stuff and it's all pretty much made up.

[rbnyc]

3. Tomorrow I go to work and to...

...the wake.

See you later.