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Salkin Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
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Sat, 20 Jul 2002 05:52:07 -0400
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Hope you get your power chair back soon, Gary.  What a bummer.

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Peterson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 9:05 PM
Subject: Up and around


> Hi all!!
>
> So while I'm waiting for my eletric chair to get fixed on Monday, my
> staff found me a manual chair that I could sit up fairley comfortibly
> in.
>
> For those of you might not know, I suddenly got really sick after
> comming home from work on Monday.  As my luck would have it, I got
> sick at a time when I didn't have staff here.
>
> So I called for help, and someone got to me in about 10 minutes or so.
> But they were just a minute or 2 to late.  By the time they got here I
> had already gotton sick in my chair.
>
> For many reasons I won't go into, as a result of all this, my
> spicalized seeting system in my chair has to be replaced.
>
> So bottom line here is, I thought I was going to be stuck in my bed
> alll weekend.  But staff came to my resku!!  Only draw back is,
> becausee it's a menual chair, I'm not able to push myself.  Not eveen
> from rom to room.
>
> So I'm stuck here with staff 24-7 this weekend.  I may end up going
> totaly crazy because of it, but it's a hell of a lot better then being
> stuck in bed till early Monday afternoon when I should have the
> seeting in my E-chair fully restored.
>
> For those of you who I made plans with this weekend, sorry, but I
> godda cancil for now.  This chair I'm in is OK for here in the house,
> but as far as getting in my van &going somewhere, it's just waaay to
> flimsy.
>
> I'm sort of limited as far as how long I can stay up in this thing
> too.  So if ya don't much Email from me the next few days  that's why.
> So I'll keep yawal updated.
>
> See ya kids!!-Gary

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