In a time long ago (a couple of days) and a blog faraway (ahem), a blogger took a particular physical therapist to task for not recording a visit to said blogger's child and for then making a dismissive remark about said documenting of the visit. The forthcoming comments on the blog came as a shock to me, as a few took said blogger to task for taking said PT to task.

Said blogger, in a subsequent post, took the commentors to task...and was yet again...ummm...taken to task by more commentors.

Of course, I'm with the blogger and believe the PT was out of line for a number of reasons but that isn't so much what this is about. One comment in particular frustrated me. Quite simply, it stated that the incident should just be waved off as a simple mistake. After all it was the holidays...let it go.

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Ah yes, the holidays...those sacred times of year when families and friends get together for libation, turkey killing, or various other nefarious group like activities, when stores close for maybe 24 hours...and when those of us with disabled kids lose whatever help we have for extended periods.

FYI ladies and gentlemen, there are no vacations in the land of disability. This is not a complaint...it's just a fact. Only those who truly don't get it continue to live under the delusion that there are: hospitals, for instance. I remember all too well the skeleton crews that staffed the floors of our hospital on weekends those many years ago, when Sophie would, invariably, crash. And that was just the weekends...forget about holidays.

Yes...forget about holidays...completely. They do not exist. So, I get that many of you out there who do have help to begin with, are doing without right now and you are doing all the usual things you do plus everything else...and likely not going to work...until the help returns from their respective time off/vacations. I, for one, am enjoying hanging around the house in my sweat-pants and t-shirt (because, lord knows, I dress like a friggin' model all the rest of the time).

But the other thing that bugged me about the holiday comment was that, once again, somehow, our kids' needs are to be set aside for the ease and comfort of others. Does incompetence take holidays? Obviously not. To dismiss hauling someone out on the carpet for their unprofessional behaviour because of some random celebratory time period just reinforces the general idea that most people have about our kids...they're 'tards...they don't know the goddam difference anyway.

Unacceptable.

So, to those of you who think one blogger was too heavy handed with the PT...I repeat said blogger's viewpoint: you don't get it...not during the holidays, likely not ever.