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« on: January 08, 2014, 10:34:38 PM »
Brad, if this isn't appropriate...then please delete it.
I haven't posted here since summer ended...been busy. Kyle is 3 now, and he's a full time job. I spend some time on Pirate4x4.com. We've got a fellow member over there who had an accident on his wedding night in 2009...dove into a pool, hit the bottom, shattered 2 vertibrae, made him a quadripaligic. I've been following his recovery since then, he's local to me, in Redondo beach. He went from relatively neck down paralysis to carting his happy ass around in a manual chair, and is planning on doing a 5K race next month. We've got a thread going, hidden from Frank, in which we're trying to raise money to, at the very least, get him a set of spinergy race wheels for his chair...because of the lower rolling resistance. He has very good bicept strength, but limited tricept, hand, and core strength. These wheels will help him kick ass. The thread has been running for 2 days now, and we've got over $2000. The wheels he wants are about $800. This guy wants, and needs, independence. We're trying to get to 5 digits by the end of the month...we want to set him up with an electronic dock for his power chair in his van so he doesn't has to take his caretaker with him everywhere, we'd really like to buy him a race chair instead of putting a set of badass wheels on the shitty chair he has now.
I'm in contact with the director of the rehab gym where he spends 3 days a week....she's fully on board helping us figure out what he wants to improve his quality of life and put a smile on his face...A few of us from Pirate are gonna be doing a bunch of work on his van and at his house while he's at the race.
and a lot of us though we had problems...
If any of you guys have a few extra bucks to throw at this, it would be appreciated. He's not a boater, but knowing what I know of him....if I could make the chair float and get him in the boat, he'd join us at the river...which just might happen.
another member has a paypal acct. setup...if you want to kick $20 or so down to help a gearhead recover and progress...send me a PM. There WILL BE a followup posted here of what we were able to do for him...with pictures.
Thanks.
PS. I'll try to post more...just don't have much time lately. miss you assholes....especially Hallet Dave.