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
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Hi Tyler,
Hand controls in the car huh.....maybe we should try that for Alicia! :) Just kidding, glad you're moving ahead. Enjoy Disney with the family and give everyone my best. Hope to see you after you get back home.
Mrs. H
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
Love
Tyler, 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.
Love
Tyler, Keegan Justin, Lori and Jay
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