Abbie told a client of more than 20 years that spinal cord injury is a full-time job, and the client wrote back to thank her because in two decades, nobody had ever said it out loud.
This episode is about what that sentence does for people. Lorie and Abbie talk through why existing itself becomes the workload, why naming that isn't a pity party, and why falling behind on chores and appointments is the expected outcome rather than proof you're failing.
Lorie is honest that she hits this wall every single day, not once. Plus a candid stretch for the clinicians listening: when the system measures units and cancellations instead of whether anyone felt heard, it gets easy to say \"I hear you\" and move on and it takes about two seconds to say it differently.
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