Hello Readers! I hope you are all having a good summer. I am
definitely having a fantastic one. Instead of me telling you about my summer
however, I decided to postpone that and tell you that at the end of the summer.
Here is my real entry.
Often times in life, we overlook things or take for granted
what we do have especially when we are in a frustrating situation. But then
when something little happens in your life that makes a big difference, you are
so happy and thrilled. I have a perfect example of this. As I told you last
month, Tori and I went to the Spring to Dance Festival in St. Louis. My chair
was beginning to serge or jerk as I like to say. Then, it would stop for a
couple of days, and it is still doing this one month later. We had no idea
where the source was coming from, there was nothing in my wheels that seemed to
be the source of the problem. All of us at the Purple Pad were perplexed, what
could this be? And every time the wheelchair company came to fix other things
with my chair I forgot to tell them about the jerking because it would seem to
go away. Kind of like when you feel sick and then on the day of the doctor’s
appointment you don’t feel as sick as you did when you made the appointment.
One day on, one day off, this was getting tiring and
frustrating. So I finally put my foot down the other day, and I said you know
what regardless I’m going to call the wheelchair company. When I called the
wheelchair company, they said we can come out in two weeks, but I have a better
alternative for you. The wheelchair representatives will be at the Abilities
Expo, which is an expo where people with disabilities come together to learn
and to buy products and services that will hopefully better their life with a
disability. Of course, I said yes and the next day Tori and I drove to
Schaumburg to the Abilities Expo where sure enough, Permobile’s booth was right
in the front. After a lot of moving around, question answering, and puzzled
technicians, they came to the realization that my gears on my wheelchair needed
to be fixed. They said it would take a few weeks and I was like “Okay, I’ve
waited this long, what does two or three weeks matter at this point?”
But then the best news came! They said that they were going
to come and install the gears for me free of charge! I was shocked and thrilled
by their generosity! This was a true lesson for me in patience, community, and
the importance of really realizing that little things in life make a big
difference! Once again, I will be rolling and dancing smoothly very soon thanks
to these compassionate people. In about three days one of my favorite holidays
will be happening. For most of you advid readers, you probably know what it is
because I have woven this topic throughout my blog post every year it comes
about. But for those of you who don’t know what I am talking about, it is the
Fourth of July. When people ask me, “What is the reason?” Every year I come up
with a little twist to the answer, but the underlining message of the answer stays
the same. Freedom is a great thing, and I am so happy that we have a holiday to
celebrate the freedom that we worked so hard as citizens to attain. Remember,
that every human being has their own form of independence. So in honor of this
month’s blog, even though I have seen the fireworks many times in my life, and gone
to many parades with my family in the past, I’m going to go back to the basics.
I’m going to enjoy the little things in life and I hope you do too. So just
when you think hope is gone, don’t give up. Enjoy your own type of freedom,
with a little red, white, and blue.
