Today Alice walked on the floor for the first time in a medical office! We went to see my psych nurse, and everyone there is super supportive of my service dogs. Unfortunately Brad was too ill to come with me, so it was just Alice and me. Alice did a […]
Last weekend we went to the SC State Museum with Debbie and her service dog, Apollo. Below is a picture of us next to the sign for the museum—the first of many in this picture-rich story! (In all the pictures I am in my power wheelchair wearing a mint green […]
I am training Alice to be more comfortable around my wheelchair. Part of that involves training her to do a paws-up on my footplate so I can pick her up. Brad videotaped the end of our second training session on this today. Alice has it down pat!!! What a smart […]
Twice now I’ve taken Alice on morning walkies next to my wheelchair. She’s a little hesitant about getting too close to it in the house, so I figured getting out and moving would help her realize it can be a fun thing. Her position is pretty in line with me, […]
Today I took Alice to Academy Sports for a training outing! (Picture and video below). I needed to work on her walking past people and doing things on the floor generally, and she’s not yet comfortable enough walking next to my wheelchair so I had to walk it. We went […]
Today I met with a physical therapist about my hips. The appointment was originally for yesterday afternoon, but there was some issue with their system, so it got moved to this morning at 9AM. I don’t know what I was thinking making an appointment for that early because normally I […]
Today I took Alice to Ross for the first time. It was quite a complicated store, even though we did go first thing in the morning! They did not have sliding doors, which are the type of door Alice prefers. They had regular doors that you have to pull open. […]
I had a request to show how I take apart my new Whill C2, load it in the car, take it out, and put it back together again. So today we filmed it! It took less than 4 minutes total for me to do all four steps. That’s pretty fast! […]
Check out a video of my new wheelchair!!! Thank you very very much to everyone who has helped me expand my freedom and independence! Sorry the mic cut out a couple of times—what I’m saying then is not essential, and there are captions. Thank you again!
Today I took Alice to TJ Maxx in the afternoon to do some people watching. I brought my wheelchair to sit in, as I can’t stand for very long. We found a nice spot to park right off the main walkway and I put Alice on the ground as I […]
