Just because someone is on disability doesn't mean they need to spend 100% of their time in bed, for crying out loud.
Profoundly true!
I have a friend named Ron, who is on disability. He walks so poorly now that it is heartwrenching to watch him walk. Walking causes him intense pain, makes his face turn red and wrinkled up and he falls often. He moves very, very slowly. He still does the things he likes doing like going to animal swap meets and fishing.
The last time I took him to the Mount Hope Exotic Sale, he took a stroller, to use as a walker, because using a walker embarrasses him. When we first got there, Ron fell badly down the stairs, while I was carrying his stroller, but still stayed and walked around for hours.
The last time we went fishing, with our friend Tim, at a quarry they have fished and snake hunted together for over 40 years, it took Ron over 20 minutes to walk the hundred yards from the parking lot to the water and longer to walk back out, after fishing. There's lots of high drop offs into the water from the sheer rock banks. Tim and I kept Ron steered away the better fishing, high banked areas, because we were afraid he would take a very bad fall. Ron did fall in once in a shallow area and three times more on shore.
A couple of weeks ago Ron called me worried about Tim. Ron had called Tim several times and Tim never answered or called back. I called Tim and he answered. It turned out that Ron had left messages asking Tim to take him fishing at the quarry. Tim didn't call him back because he didn't have the heart to tell Ron after 40 some years, that it was to dangerous to go fishing there, because of Ron's poor health. After I talked to him, Tim made the hard call to Ron.
Yes, Ron, still does or tries to do the things he has enjoyed. Yes, he could do some physical work. You would have to be heartless and a sadist to make him work in the condition Ron's in.
Keith