Saturday January 27

Tyler visited a Physical Therapy office in Bloomingdale NJ today.

This office opened just 2 weeks ago and uses the same procedures that Project Walk does. Eric, the trainer, has been to California working with Project Walk and is certified.

He worked with Tyler for about an hour and a half, doing various exercises. He made Tyler kneel and balance himself against a box to work on his core muscles. The theory is to make his core muscles work to regain balance and help him move his body around. At one point Tyler is told to push against the trainer’s resistance. Eric said at a certain point in the extension of Tyler’s Left leg he can feel Tyler pushing against him. Tyler also said that he could feel the muscles in his left thigh working!!!. This is a big step and it means that Tyler is continuing to recover. Eric also told us that Thoracic back injury patients typically regain feeling and motion form the waist down. Cervical injury patients typically recover form toes up. That explains why Tyler has reported feeling throbbing and feeling in thighs but not his toes. In all it was a very promising visit and Tyler is already scheduled to go back on Tuesday 1/30 for another workout.

That’s all for now.
Thank you all for your help!

LoveTyler, Keegan, Justin , Lori and Jay

Update for January 17

Wednesday - Tyler has been back at school this week. He has classes from 9:30- to 12:30 every day. He has use of the elevator at school so he can go up to the second floor if he has a class to get to.

Tyler has been looking at some of the different Physical Therapy options available and is interested in a facility called Project Walk. They are based in California and Portland and have a great website; ProjectWalk-portland.org.

We just found out today that there is an facility opening in North Jersey that is run by Project Walk trained specialists. We are planning on visiting them soon. The Project Walk philosophy is to work all the parts of your body to keep in shape, but also to make your body think that your legs/lower body are still working. This will reduce the muscle and bone density loss that SCI patients sometimes experience. Check out the website for more information.

Thats all for now and as always thank you to everyone for your continued support.

LoveTyler, Keegan Justin, Lori and Jay

Update for January 14,2007

We just returned from Orlando last night after a weeks vacation.

We flew on Jet Blue from Stewart and stayed at Orange Lake resort just a few miles away from Disney World. The weather was great and everyone had a lot of fun. We celebrated Lori's parents 50th anniversary while we were down there.

Tyler did great in Disney. He went on all the rides including Test Track, Space Mountain, Run away Train, Everest, Mission Space, Finding Nemo, Dinosaurs, Soaring and the safari ride. The rockin roller coaster and splash mountain were closed. He didn't want to try Tower of Terror because of the quick drop and stopping. Because of the wheelchair, we were able to get a special pass to get on the rides through a special entrance. We never had to wait more than 15 minutes for any ride and we passed by all the people in the regular lines. We also got to go at least twice on most rides because of the time it takes to transfer. We spent three days in Disney: Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and MGM studios.

Everybody was pretty tired by the end of the third day.

The resort we stayed in had about 9 pools so we had lots to do at the resort as well.

Tyler went swimming, hot tubbing and played lots of mini golf. It was a very full week and everyone had lots of fun.

Now it is back to the real world: School and work.

Thats all for now and we hope to see you at the Dinner next weekend

LoveTyler, Keegan, Justin, Lori and Jay

Tyler in the News

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612280365

Update for Wednesday Jan 3,2007

The updates have been a little slow lately because of the holidays, but we sincerely hope that everyone had a merry Christmas and safe New Years.

Tyler had plenty of things to keep him busy over the last week of so: visits from friends, getting his school work caught up with his Tutor (Mrs Halick),visits from the Nurse and the Physical Therapist, going to VC to talk to the teachers, going to the Winter Concert at VC, watching VC girls beat Wallkill in the holiday tournament, going to the triple overtime NY Knicks game at MSG, getting the hand controls for his car installed, visiting with family, eating big holiday meals and sleeping.The next big event will be going to Orlando this weekend. The airplane will be challanging but Tyler has seen first hand what wheelchair bound kids have to deal with. He helps with the Irish American Youth team that goes to Dublin every year for an Olympics style competition. They have 10+ wheelchair atheletes to get on the plane and take care of.We might not have internet access in the condo we are staying at next week so the updates may be delayed as we find a place to update from.
Till next time...Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at the Dinner on Jan 20th.
Tyler, Keegan, Justin, Lori,and Jay

New Years Update

We hope everyone had a safe New Years and had lots of fun at whatever party you went to. Tyler stayed home and watched the ball drop with Tammie. New years day was also a quiet day spent watching some movies and football.

This week Tyler will be going to School to talk to the Teachers and Guidance about his work. He is mostly caught up with this Tutor and needs to hand in his work to get more.The hand controls will be installed in the car this week so Tyler will finally be able to drive his car. He has been a passenger many times but is eager to drive the car.

Our trip to Florida is coming up quick. We will be leaving friday from Stewart and returning on Sat 1/13. We are all looking forward to the trip, All of Lori's family will be there to celebrate her parents 50th anniversary. We hope that everyone has had a wonderful Holiday season and will have a great New Year in 2007. The next big event will be the Dinner Dance on the 20th of January.

We look forward to seeing everyone there.
Thank you for everything
Tyler, Keegan , Justin, Lori and Jay

Updates...Get your Updates...

Sorry for the lag in posting...someday, I'll get those Ryans to get the hang of this blogger...Tyler, hope to see you in Disney next week! I'll be there too! :)

Update for Wed-Friday 12/20-22
Tyler has been pretty busy this week at home.
He had visits from lots of freinds and went to see the Christmas concert at Valley Central High School. He also had visits from his Tutor, Physical Therapist and Nurse. And he has gone Christmas Shopping in between all of these visits!Those of you have been reading this blog since the begining have seen daily jokes being posted by Christina Farone. This has been a really nice thing and we know how much effort it takes to keep something like this going for this long. Tyler would like to thank Christina for all her work. There have been 6500 visitors to this blog as well who get a chuckle out of her jokes every day. Thank you Christina and Merry Christmas to you and your family.As we get closer to Christmas it will be hard for most to check this blog. so we want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We have The best present of all; Tyler home and healthy, and many thanks go out to all of you for your generosity, kind thoughts and Prayers in making this happen.We hope you all enjoy the holidays with your families and please be safe if your are traveling this year.
Thank you and God Bless all of you
Tyler, Keegan, Justin Lori and Jay

Christmas Day 12/25/06
We would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.There have been so many people doing so many good things for Tyler that is seems impossible to say thank you to everyone. We know that you have had thank you letters sent to you but we want you all to know that we have been told of all your generous donations and want to add our personal thanks as well.Tyler has come a long way since October 9, and has a long way to go. It is comforting to know of all the love and support we have received from everyone, and that so many are offering to do more.All your help and Tyler healthy and home makes this a very special Christmas.
Thank you
Love
Tyler, Keegan, Justin, Lori and Jay


Update for Wednesday-Thursday Dec 27-28
Tyler had an opportunity to go to the Knicks game on Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. He was asked to the game by Peter Schuyler, who plays for the Rollin Knicks Wheelchair Basketball team. They played at half time of the Knicks-Piston game. It was very interesting to see the Rollin Knicks play and the whole Garden was cheering like crazy for them. The Knick-Piston game went into 3 overtimes before the Knicks finally won. It was a great game and a big thank you goes to Peter and his family for the invitation.On thursday Tyler had an appointment to get measured for the seat back on his new wheelchair at Helen Hayes. While he was there we discovered that Tyler was on the front page of the Rockland Herald Newspaper! We will try to get a link to the article for everyone to read. While at HH he saw a few of his Therapists and they all came over to say hi and to see how he was doing. He changed to a new loaner chair until his comes in.The new loaner is lighter and rolls better than the one he was using. It will be easier when we go to Disney next week. All of Lori's family will be going down to celebrate her Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary!.Thats all for now...until the next update
Thank you
Tyler, Keegan Justin Lori and Jay