Mar 9, 2007

This morning they already had Gary’s mom walking some! After ten days of rehab in the hospital, she will go into a rehab nursing home for thirty days. They say she should be ready to go home after that. Bob is traveling to be with her for the next week.

Gary has gotten several emails from people cautioning him about driving in a parking lot this weekend. He wants to assure you, it will be an empty lot. He knows he doesn’t have any insurance on the car yet, and no valid license. He will not drive out on street.

And he has learned that there is a prison that houses paraplegic criminals, so don’t worry, if they throw him in jail there are facilities for him.

I am going to try to try to put up pictures of the van on the blog. If you are getting this message by email, go to http://drpeg2003.blogspot.com/ to see the pictures. I can’t get the text to center, I am afraid!



van ramp



van rear



van front



driver's seat with transfer base. The controls for the seat are on the right side of the seat. You can also see part of a seat belt sticking out from the floor; the belt is used to lock the wheelchair in place after Gary transfers out of it.



wheel. The handcontrols are to the lower left of the wheel. There is a black knob there which controls both braking and accelerating. On the wheel itself you can note a knob that Gary will use for ease in one-handed driving (he keeps one hand on that knob for steering and the other hand on the handcontrols).



view into front seats.



view into back seats