Post accident I weighed around 130lbs and was looking like a holocaust survivor although Dodd Hall was a good experience preparing me for the handicap lifestyle and even though I now couldn't walk, i had noticeable slurred speech(talk about a bad singer),double vision, and a slight case of paralysis in all these years I've never felt disabled, although while at Dodd hall and for a short time afterwards I used a wheel-chair and they're very restricting now I use a cane and rely on bouncing off the walls, furniture and at times floor but being a professional handicapped dude over the years I've learned from my mistakes so I rarely "bite" the floor although in my earlier "handicap" days falling was part of my daily routine but nothing to serious that is if you don't consider falling down stairs, cracking my head more than once, falling from a 3 wheeled bicycle, falling into a fire when I was simply walking by(I burned my left arm horribly) but that was years ago.
Following the hospital and Dodd hall I returned home, my parents home, where my mother, father, and two sister's lived and began my life as a handicapped dude. I always loved that house located in a small farming community in central Ohio and even though things have changed like me becoming disabled living there made life just a little easier but I was consumed with becoming "ME" again the pre-accident me(and I had a long row to hoe).
I began by excersising, watching television every commercial break doing push-up, set-ups, or curls with a dumb-bell and although it's been more than thirty years ago I can still remember some of the episodes of Mash and Mary Tyler Moore, at the time they were my favorite. And along with tv and excersising I ate, ate, and ate some more.
I eventually was doing something like 500 push-ups a day(that was years ago i hate to see what
would happen if i even attempted that now)along with various other exercises coupled with excessive eating I weighed slighted over 200lbs but I was still disabled(no fat just disabled).
I eventually lost the extra weight but had to learn to live independently on social security which is hard in today's economy.
Following the hospital and Dodd hall I returned home, my parents home, where my mother, father, and two sister's lived and began my life as a handicapped dude. I always loved that house located in a small farming community in central Ohio and even though things have changed like me becoming disabled living there made life just a little easier but I was consumed with becoming "ME" again the pre-accident me(and I had a long row to hoe).
I began by excersising, watching television every commercial break doing push-up, set-ups, or curls with a dumb-bell and although it's been more than thirty years ago I can still remember some of the episodes of Mash and Mary Tyler Moore, at the time they were my favorite. And along with tv and excersising I ate, ate, and ate some more.
I eventually was doing something like 500 push-ups a day(that was years ago i hate to see what
would happen if i even attempted that now)along with various other exercises coupled with excessive eating I weighed slighted over 200lbs but I was still disabled(no fat just disabled).
I eventually lost the extra weight but had to learn to live independently on social security which is hard in today's economy.
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