Friday August 12th 2011

This is my first blog post and I am looking to do this every couple of days. I have a disability called Cerebral palsy which is caused by not having enough oxygen in the brain at birth. Cerebral Palsy is non life threatening and is not contagious in any way and so when and if I have kids they may not have it. Even though I do have a disability I live life to the full potential and can do anything i put my mind to


Moving on. the reason I have created a blog is to share my day to day life and how hard it is to do a lot of stuff that most would take for granted. Since I am in an electric wheelchair and play PowerChair Football I feel that I have the responsibility of taking the initiative to talk to the community about how I and some people in manual and power wheelchairs .

Today I had to get my power chair fixed because it died on me yesturday afternoon and I couldn't get it fixed that day since Motion Specialties closes at 5 and so I had to crawl around my place for the night which is so hard since my body is all dead weight and I have to use my arms only. It was tough but I did it. Anyways  one of the technicians came to my house to inspect what what going on. When he got here he told me that I could only drive for half an hour and let it rest for 2 hours. Well it turned out that the computer module in my chair was dead and needed to be replaced and it had to go in to the shop. So I did just that with my personal support worker (PSW). What I didn't know after replacing the computer module was that I would loose all my speed settings and so the lead technician in the shop helped me to get close to what I had before but it's still not quite right. I now have to ask my coach to adjust and speed test me at the next practice which won't be a problem but it will take a little time out of my practice.

My mom is leaving for Europe today and a friend of mine is staying with me for about 3 weeks. As much as I love my mom it's good to have time apart sometimes. My friend and I are going to have a couple of video's that I will post at a later date and it's going to be a wicked time