A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo

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This starts off quite innocuously with a woman doing the washing up, only we soon see that she is using her feet, and every bit as nimbly as a person using their hands might do. For the next quarter of an hour, we spend a day or two with Bonnie as she cooks, bakes, shops, drives, chats about her husband (Frank) and her two small kids (Matt and Mark) and generally lives as ordinary a life as her contributing next door neighbour - who speaks fondly of a woman whom, she considers, doesn’t have a disability at all. Her home appears to have been minimally modernised and adapted, and we are presented with a short feature on a lady whose glass is very much half full. It’s interesting to watch just how her ankle, knee and hip joints have developed the flexibilities to provide her with quite a dexterity whether she is baking a loaf or putting supermarket pears into scales (does anyone still do that any more?). It’s not in any way a scientific documentary: we don’t go into any medical or clinical details about what might have caused her lack of arms, this is more a poignant and celebratory illustration of a woman who exudes positivity.