{"id":209,"date":"2012-04-03T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muskokarivercomputer.com\/nicpaterson\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-04-03T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:44:12","slug":"march-30th-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicpaterson.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"March 30th Week Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lyndhurst\u00a0Rehabilitation\u00a0Center is a community with everyone wheeling, motoring, shuffling and pretty much just moving. It is CRAZY cool.<\/p>\n

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As I write this in the center core, the Coffee shop is humming and people are just being their normal. \u00a0Everything is accessible here and it’s like life should be this way everywhere for these folks. \u00a0It’s easy to function here…people talk about what has happened to them, there is nothing sad about it, it just is. \u00a0No drama…when it is so incredibly dramatic at what has happened in our lives.<\/p>\n

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The goal here? Get you home, maximize your bodies potential…so you can live your life.<\/p>\n

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I was trained in accessibility as an Interior Designer and did do one project in the city many moons ago, but that was someone else’s life, not mine…not Nic’s. Now it is my life and it is so many peoples lives. There are 12,000 people in Ontario that have a spinal cord injury. Between 350-400 happen every year. I am buying a lottery ticket.<\/p>\n

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In the last week in Lyndhurst, \u00a0Nic has been sick, measured, needled, stretched, assessed, dangled and the list goes on. It has been busy and an adjustment for all of us. Now more of the healing and work begin.<\/p>\n

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The highlights this week? Well it would have to be the friends that came to visit, I love seeing him smile and he does that alot when his friends are here. The other biggy would be his new Power Wheelchair. In the beginning it was a bit scarey and we all protected our shins.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Yes Nic is moving with the community now…please keep them safe! Within hours of him \u00a0booting around…they adjusted the speed…to SLOWER (Shocking eh?)<\/p>\n

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Now he has 2 wheelchairs. One power to get him moving to his appointments, get him outside and make him feel like he can do some stuff on his own. \u00a0The second wheely chair is in case of \u00a0fire?…and to get him to start propelling himself on his own. This will get his upper body strong, which is pretty darned important.<\/p>\n

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My highlights? Visits from\u00a0my dearest friends David Heaslip and Leanne (I love the Danforth!)…Gaye and Stan, thank you so much for being so thoughtful…Sandra, I am sorry I fell asleep at 9pm on our girls night out! I am so lucky to have all of you in my life. Truly.<\/p>\n

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Being a teenager means he still \u00a0likes to sleep. ALOT! \u00a0 \u00a0I thought up to yesterday, “ok… he is adjusting, ok… he is sick, ok… he is a teenager” \u00a0OK… MOM IS BORED of that now, so in the last couple of days I have been pretty much a pushy “OMG Mom!” (Nic’s words) \u00a0 He’ll get over it right?<\/p>\n

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His roommates are pretty cool I tell ya. \u00a0Both boys are young and so incredibly positive (that I have seen). Everyone shares here…there is nothing that is candy coated. \u00a0 There is much talk of beer, cars and gay porn?(running joke) and they make me laugh. \u00a0They are keepers.<\/p>\n

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Mitchell took my truck to go back home to \u00a0get his old job back. We \u00a0both agreed the job he took in the city was way to dangerous for him to continue. I don’t need them both at Lyndhurst. So I learned how to use the subway and TTC, and am quite proud of my accomplishment. Julie and Stephan both tell me not to talk to people and never smile. I’m not going to change at this age. People look at me like I’m from Mars.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I think I am….<\/p>\n

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