well it is that time already time to give thanks to all of the friends that i have in my life and times to give thanks for being vlessed with the family that i have a good wife and a wonderful caregiver my son and my daughter and of coarse my grandson and lets not forget all of the friends that i have made through out the years as friendship is so hard to find and i must say that even though i had a stroke you must remember that had it not been for the strock that i had i would not have the priv
well to begin with as you know i went for a colinoscopy, #1it was great no polups to speak of and now #2as you know when you go for a colonoscopy you have to cleanup as it were so no food and nothing by mouth and i got on the scales and oh my 188pounds i know that it was frommy lack of being able to eat but i will take it as it come and now i have saved the best for last and so #3i just found out that not only did the insurance came through for my scooter but the scooter is coming to my house on
well it is now official it is my grandson christian birthday and so we order pizza we order 5 pizza boy was it ever good my wifes moter my mother in law was here at my house for christian birthday andno i tried not to spoil him but christian did get lots of gift but then again my grand son is lucky he has two families his moter my daughter and his father so i told him hey vhristian we are going to have a birthday party for you and he sain no pa pa i don"t think so because i"ve already had a birt
hi there members well i know that i talk about snow and my unable to continue to do my twice a day walk because of the ice and the snow well a very good thing happen to me all of a sudden the rains come in and then the snow started to melt and then the sun come out and now i am able to go for a walk i just finish doing my 2nd walk for this day on saturday , and yes my scooter is still coming but now i have other thins to do to take my mind off of the scooter , i can"t believe how nice it is up h
well as you know i yry to walk at lest twice a day and i have been very good at keeping my goal on track but i must tell you so that you don"t think that i have give up, because i haven"t and i never will however as you know i am living in canada and it has become very cold and because of that alot of ice has formed making going for a walk daily has made it quite impossible and now i just found out that we are about to get on tuesday a very big dump of snow and i can believe it as the temputure
well as you probably know ny now i use to have a scooter it was a shoperider known as the landcruser very large and silver in colour but the bad news is that it broke down and i guess because i was using it all the time to go every where as i am able to walk just not a long distance and it is usually a long walk from where i am so my scooter which have 2 motors both burnt out and the trans axel broke so any way i had to order another one it is also a shope rider but it is red in color and only 3
Well as promise here is the update that went on at the stroke club the handidart came to my house at about 10:30 to take me to stroke club by 11:00 as i got ready put on my bioness and then walk into stroke club and as i arrive every one was greeting me it was very nice and so i told them that i would be giving a speech and a demonstration of the bioness and how to get it and what i can do with it on versus not on and it was a big difference so then i pass around a business card for all to write
hello, well i just thought that i will try to let you know what is happening for friday, well i have decided to start going to stroke club in richmond , i use to go quite alot but i have found that my life has been getting way to busy , before when i use to go lots i was nominated as president to the stroke club and of coarse as president, i had to get quite involved so i just got to busy and stop going all together on friday but after purchasing the bioness and it has been working for me a frie
well i have to brag aboutmy grandson christian, he is 5 years old and is going to school grade 2 in fact and of coarse christian is very excited to go trick or treat and dressing up and going door to door wlooking as scary as he can any way the day at school has arrive where every one gets to dress up to see wgo hasd the best costumes and the scaries costumes so my christian very excited showed up at school looking very scary and the judge arrive as christian and all the grade 2nd march up to th
well i have notice something with me and i was wondering if you have notice it as well since your stroke, right after my stroke i notice that in order to sit down i could never sit straight ton the char unless i was holding the chair to insure that when i sat down , it was on the chair it was as if on my trunk always wanted to drift left and that when you get back up i would always hopld on because it seemed to me that it was almost impossible to get my left leg under me to feel comfortable gett
i ceretainly hope that you not getting sick of me, well as you know when i first got home from the hospital , i wasn"t able to walk i came home in a wheel chair having my wife caregiver, taking me with her either by car or by wheel chair, and it was very hard for me having lost the independance that i first had as you probably know before my stroke i had just finish running two marathon, so all i could think about was to get it back , little by little so i start of by walking a little further ea
well i have foundthat in our journey of recovery we are not the only ones that are taking a trip, no we are taking a journey all of us togeter as one among with my caregiver and my wife and of coarse my family and it would seem that i am not the only journey that i will have to make the reason that i am writing this blog is to let you know that my wifes mother my mother in law, she is 83 has just went into assited living so now it would seem that as life goes on so does change happen some for th
WELL AS YOU KNOW MY CARE GIVER IS MY WIFE SHE IS A VERY LOVELY GIRL AND I THINK THE WORLD OF HER WE ALSO HAVE 3 WONDERFUL CHILDREN ONE BOY MICHAL AND ONE GIRL STEOHANIE, and of coarse the love of my life christian my grand son and my daughter son christian any way when i first got married to my wife darlene we would always go for a walk around stanelety park which is located in vancouver , it is a lovely setting with a walk treail that is about 10 killometers and so on september the 20th on my a
just a quick explanation of what i have been up to as you know i have purchase the bioness for foot drop ans i have found it to be a god send for me and upon having so munch success with it i phoned carolyn who was my teacher as a stroke mentor and i was telling carolyn about my success with the bioness and so carylyn, ask me if i would like to go over to the hospital and give a demonstrator and how it works and how it isworking for me , so of coarse i agreed to do that so i am going on the hand
well i had such a good saturday that just made me realised that stroke or not lige is just grand my wife and i and christian and my daugh ter just bought a ticket to watch a game of baseball in nat bailey stadium that is where the canadians play ball any way after the game for a special attraction firworks is added forafter the game so after we bought a handicapp parking and park the car we all left togeter to watch the canadians play tri state, and my grand son loved baseball and sinse my wife
WELL I had a very good fathers day or i should say grandfaters day or what my grandson likes to call me pa pa day, well it was saturday night, and it was at 11:00 and my wife and my son and my daughter went to see my grrandson play in the jr. mites tournament, age bracket 5 years old so the whole family was there on the baseball field wating my grand son play base ball he was the pitcher, and the catcher and during the gamr he won the game to get into the finals it was a very long day but a very
well i just wanted to take the time to pay tribute, to a very important figure in the family and of coarse it is for all of the mothers out there you give so munch of yourself to insure that your sons or daughters has a very strong fondation and no matter what alot of love to the family you deserve alot more than just one day a month to show how munch you are all appriciated for what you do to ensure a very good up bringing and to feel so munch love i just wanted you to feel appriciated for all
well many members know mebut i thought that i will let you know me even better, as you know i am married to mt wife darlene, who is now my caregiver, and since then i have had 1daughterstephanie and one son michal, and of coarse one grand son christian, who is stephanie son, and well before my family i was always a family man who always love my wife very munch and then michal came along and i immediatly had a very huge love for my son, and then stephanie come alongs and i thought wow a daughter,
hi there as you know i have experiance a stroke, and it has been about 8 years going on 9 yearsm the reason that i am telling you this is so that i can demostrate how slow recovery really is , but it does happen, and i know that i will have the room to tell you this as oppose to a post, anyway day one march 19th 2001 major change in my life went to the hospital came home , in a wheel chair, and having difficulties bathing myself and dressing my self foot would not cooperate so fi find that it is
well as the olympics comes to a close , there are alot of very good memories that i just have to share with you, and that is when we first heard that the olympics were coming to vancouver , we immediatly wanted tio get tickets but then we found out that they will use the lottery system in order to avoid the rush, so we sign up for every thing, but we wre only awarded three ticket to the mans 500meter speed skating, we wre very happy because we know that the richmond oval building was very close
hi i am just so proud of my home in canada , when i found out that canada got a gold medal for the sking mogal event, and if i can brg now it seems that canada is the only country that is hosting an olympic to win a gold medal , i was going to post it but then i realize that i had better blog this one ,
hi there as you know the olympics is in CANADA, well any way i got tickets to the mens 500meters speed skating , held in ricmond at the richmond oval, and it was so exciting , we left for the games at 9:00 and i took my scooter and my grandson christian and my wife who walk and my daughter who walk as well and while we were on our way we took a picture on my scooter and i will post it and i will callit on the road to yhe olypics, any way when we arrive the place was packed, but because i was in
hello members and i just thought that i will give you an update as to getting ready for the big show, well the construction force is working overtime to get the buildings and the facilituies ready and the city is starting to paint up the place and add flowers and paint up the buses with the olympics 2010 logos every where and securities checkbig times and now that the richmpond oval building is finish thats where the men speed skating will be held and we have tickets for "yeaand of coarse there
hello my name is lenny harrison, and i go to physiotherapy once a week and my therapists name is adam, and adam is a very good physiotherapy, he is always tring new things on me to help me with balance and finger movements sowe use lots of toys in ordr to do that we use avery large anti burst ball , and then he has me marching on the ball first lifting my leftleg and then my right leg and then after that adam will take a towel and roll it into like a large roll and then lay it down on the floor
WELL I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE GETTING GEARUP FOR THE OLYMPICS TO BE HHELD IN VANCOUVER , CANADA, IT WILL BEGIN ON FEBUARY 14TH IN THE RICHMOND OVAL WHER A SPEED SKATING WILL BEGIN, and i have tickets to the event, of coarse we didn"t get any snow in vancouver during the winter so it looks like we will be using fake snow, so the big mountains like whistler and seymour mountains is already starting to make the snow that we will need to hold this event, andthhe city is already started
