My MS Story

It is unquestionable that I have had a few challenges and struggles as of late.   However, I can tell that my arms are getting much stronger.   Movements that used to take me extreme amounts of energy now happen exceptionally quickly.   My legs still spasm shaking like a leaf in a windstorm, but my upper body is getting stronger by the day. I used to have a tough time transferring into and out of a sedan.   I simply did not have the correct muscles to make it happen without great struggle and help from others.   My wheelchair and the passenger seat were at similar heights. I still could not get close enough to make a smooth transition.   The lack of closeness is due to my chair being longer than most causing the distance between seats to be nearly a foot.   Without the needed muscles to transfer that gap might as well be The Grand Canyon. A friend and his wife recently picked me up for a group dinner that we were attending.   They h...

Adaptive sports have become very popular.   We have come so far in technology that what was once impossible is now possible.   Great minds have gotten together and figured out how to make things work correctly specifically for the disabled.   We have all heard the line “there’s an app for that.”   Now it seems that we can say “there is an adaptation for that.” Adaptive sports include things such as surfing, kayaking, skiing, skydiving and more.   It was explained to me that no matter your talent level and abilities you can ride a bike with a handcycle.   Not only can you kayak but if you have the needed skills, you can whitewater kayak.   If you are willing, it is not out of the question to snow ski in Colorado with the best of the best.   For all of these sports, you are limited only by your willingness to act and what the imagination can create. I was told about adaptive sports several months ago.   Then I recently put two and ...

Friends and even family can occasionally act funny when it comes to the unwell.   They seem to feel entitled by proxy to the term of disabled.   Some of them can even get bombastic when they come to the defense of anyone in a wheelchair.   These people can periodically become overly pro “accessibility” to the point that it becomes excessive. A friend and her husband were taking me to a fast-casual eatery for lunch.   There was a light rain coming down that seemed to cause people to drive erratically.   As we pulled into the parking lot, there was construction equipment all around.   The trucks and dumpsters blocked many of the parking spots.   There was one accessible parking space where someone was illegally parked.   This lack of convenient parking caused us to get rained on as we rushed to get inside.   We moved as fast as a herd of turtles stampeding through peanut butter, but we made it.   I am the kind of guy who know...

The following is a review of the year of 2018 for me.   Ten years ago my life was so dull of course to say that my life revolved around TV would be an understatement.   I knew that it was meal time not by my stomach growling but by what was on television.   If someone called me and asked what was new, I could say that absolutely nothing was new and mean it.   The following is a flashback of how my life has evolved in the past year.   In early 2017 I began the arduous process of building a house with MI Homes.   Let me tell you that the home construction ordeal is not for the faint of heart.   Sadly MI Homes did not offer me the help that I should have had so I was flying by the seat of my pants.   The house was finished eight months after they broke ground.   Just for the record, there are plenty of mistakes that I made from lack of knowledge.   The home is not as good as it should be, but it is massively better than my old hous...