Crutches
Friday, 15 February 2008
This was the end of my first week playing with crutches. Here I am trying to get the balance with them. Just to stand, relax and let my legs and body take the weight. When it happens, it's such an amazing, happy feeling.
When I try to lift the stick, the balance in my legs is different and my body and mind were still adjusting to it. I should be able to stand with the weight equally balanced through both legs but often the holding on side would lift a bit. This changes. And it all gets easier. Progress, progress, progress.
I have this irritating habit of working better under a stick than a carrot! Each time I get praise, I muck it up! I'm in a very light-hearted mood through this clip. It's hard to explain the excitement I've been feeling all week with what's going on and opening up.
I mean, check out those steps towards the end of this clip. That is IMPOSSIBLE for a paraplegic. For anyone wanting to be up, they can train them with full length callipers, but not THIS. This is the result of 1000s of hours of progressive work. I reckon I make it look normal. Typically, the new steps I took because I wanted to were the best, but the camera wasn't switched on and when it was I was so tired, but at least you see the effort and the fact that I fall and get up and fall and get up! That's what it's all about.