🙃 I went *one day* without Someone-Is-Wrong-on-the-Internet-ing it. FFS.
But I popped on because have a question for you folks. A friend was in a terrible accident. Cane sugar processing machine caught her arm. She didn't lose it, but it's bad, and she's quite poor. She's been recovering at home.
Tomorrow I'm visiting with the biggest bag of rice I can carry, & panela & powdered milk. But for folks who've been laid up, is there a comfort item (medical, cosmetic) that made a difference for you?
@MLClark Books always help me the most. Theyre the best distraction for me.
Beautiful! This person has low literacy, but I wholeheartedly agree that reading is a gift. :)
@MLClark @shadow_queene Audio books?
For the very poor in Colombia, internet is essentially for Facebook and WhatsApp, so we're not talking a home with a computer, or people with emails, or any of the surrounding digital literacy to make audio books easy to introduce.
It's an extremely humble home I'll be visiting tomorrow: painted concrete, corrugated metal roof, hot plate.
(But what an education: I gain a great deal of gratitude and perspective after sitting with people living such lives!)
@MLClark @shadow_queene Burn CDs and get her a cheap portable disk player? #ImTryingTooHardIllStop
🤣 It took me a while to get out of my Western mode of problem-solving, too! I appreciate the smile in hard times. 🤗