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Written by Phillip Sherwood
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Monday, 18 August 2008 |
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Tonight I am writing to you back from my home in Huntsville, Alabama. The trip to Maryland was great and I achieved some new milestones. I was able to validate the adaptations Mom made to her house while putting to practice many of the things I learned while at the Shepherd Center during my rehab. I became more proficient at assembling/disassembling and reconfiguring my toilet/bath chair. With Melissa’s “vision” we learned how to stabilize a seat extender so it would stop coming apart during the most critical part of the transfer to and from the chair. It was also great to see my family, friends and all those who supported me through my dilemma from the Washington D.C. area. It felt good to have the opportunity to say thank you to them. The flight back from BWI to Huntsville with the stopover at Memphis went without any problems. I made sure to leave the wheels attached to the chair for the gate check and also to take the seat cushion onto the plane to sit on. I was advised to do this since airlines are known to lose them. The only inconvenience was that on both flights the secondary aircraft auxiliary power units were supposedly inoperable negating the ability to run the cabin air conditioners. Although the cabin was very uncomfortably warm, I am sure Northwest Airlines was able to save enough money on fuel to not charge passengers extra for a second checked in bag. As soon as we arrived in Huntsville, Melissa had Christine pre-parked at the airport so we could make a beeline to SAM’s to buy moving box kits for today we started the arduous task of packing the house in preparation of moving it all into storage this coming Saturday morning. Some members of my family who haven’t seen me since I was at Shepherd were able to see how far I’ve progressed since then. All in all this trip gave me the confidence to become more flexible in my mobility options eliminating barriers that will also help me in the performance of my job…Phillip |
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Written by Phillip Sherwood
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 |
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As I write this, the family is all taking the quiz. It is very interesting to see their reactions. Here is the quiz posted.  
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