ableism.

Ableism or disability oppression is the term used to describe the all-encompassing system of discrimination and exclusion of people who live with development, medical, neurological, physical, and psychological disabilities.

Many who have been considered disabled have faced many challenges throughout their daily lives for somewhat years and many of those have faced discrimination. So much to the point where they just can't live with it any more and decide to end their lives.

When i was in late middle school early high school my great-grandma became really sick and would have to go to dialysis almost every week i think. I didn't think anything of it because well she was getting old and i kinda just knew, well maybe this is what happens. I would go with my grandma sometimes to pick her up and this one time i went i will never forget. Supposedly one of the nurses wasn't watching her right and she began to pick at where the needle was and she began to bleed. The other patients next to her began to call for the nurses but after a couple of minutes had gone by and the nurses finally said something. My grandma was furious because no one was watching her and then the nurses tried to blame it on my great-grandma! All hell broke loose after that! My grandma let everyone nurse in that building have a piece of her mind and all i could think about is why wouldn't you be watching? why wouldn't have more consideration for the patients that have to come here? I remember talking to my great-grandma once we got home and she told me that she was just tired and wanted to leave. Oh and the nurse that tended to ignore her got fired so we were happy about that.

I couldn't believe that that had happened. I didn't understand. I guess now that i think about it she was just feeling as though she couldn't take the dialysis anymore. Facing the discrimination at the doctor just made it worse. My great-grandma ended up going there for a another year i think and we would have a nurse come to my grandma's house to just check on her and stuff. Then when i was a sophomore she passed. She passed at my grandma's house and i believe she was at peace. At peace from not having to go to the doctor and dealing with her pain. It was a sad couple of months, especially going to my grandma's house and not expecting to see my great-grandma there. It effected everybody but we all knew she was at peace and that's all we could ask for.

I guess people who are considered disabled due to any reason go through a lot and we as their family and friends just have to be there for them in any way possible, even if they don't want comfort at the time. Trying not to make them feel as though they are considered disabled will also go along well in their daily life struggles.