[QUAD-L] My Birthday is today!
Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
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Happy Birthday Bobbie!!! Have a great time out celebrating with your friends! God bless you with many more. Lindaf - Original Message - From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com To: quad-list quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 12:30:37 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] My Birthday is today! Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
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Party hearty, Bobbie. You only turn 59 once! Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com Date: November 15, 2014 at 1:30:37 PM EST To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] My Birthday is today! Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
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Happy Birthday Bobbie! May You Have 1000 More! Best Wishes In a message dated 11/15/2014 12:31:36 P.M. Central Standard Time, bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com writes: Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
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Hope you had a fantastic day, just don't look in many mirrors or in storefront windows and you can think you are as young as you want to be, then you don't have to say where did that little old lady come from? It could not be me because im still young! Happy birthday. Joan -Original Message- From: Gmail [mailto:bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:31 AM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] My Birthday is today! Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
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I think birthday parties are more important now with a spinal injury. Essentially we all shouldn't be alive so each birthday is celebrating years of our lives we should have never had. Ron On Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:36 PM, Shelly Kerchner shelly.kerch...@yahoo.com wrote: Happy Birthday Bobbie Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad At Nov 15, 2014, 8:05:19 PM, Joan anglinpoaj...@sbcglobal.net' wrote: Hope you had a fantastic day, just don't look in many mirrors or in storefront windows and you can think you are as young as you want to be, then you don't have to say where did that little old lady come from? It could not be me because im still young! Happy birthday. Joan -Original Message- From: Gmail [mailto:bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 10:31 AM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] My Birthday is today! Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
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I/we had a BLAST 2 girls brought Champagne the other 3 brought wine. Kathy I got there early and she tied a balloon to each chair, with Happy Birthday balloons on my chair and my sister's (who's Birthday was just 2 days ago). Kathy also sprinkled confetti all over the table. I reserved a round table because everybody can see each other ... I think. We've all known each other since we were 2 years old and lived 3 doors away from each other on a remote street in the 1960s. We were surrounded by woods and walked to school on a path in the woods. It was a dream way to grow up. In the winter's we snow skied together and in the summer's we camped together in the Adirondack mountains. We camped in cabins that we got to by boat. The cabins had no running water or electricity. We water skied, Canoed, sailed, fished, swam and skinny dipped. When it rained we played board games. I absolutely LOVED my childhood and the people I grew up with. We were close then and were close now. How did some of you grow up? What were your surroundings like? Bobbie Smile Everyday On Nov 15, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Larry Willis lwillis82...@gmail.com wrote: Party hearty, Bobbie. You only turn 59 once! Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com From: Gmail bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com Date: November 15, 2014 at 1:30:37 PM EST To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] My Birthday is today! Today I turned 59! Holly crap ... when did THAT happen! Tonight I'm going out to dinner with 5 of my closest friends, we're going to have a blast!!! Bobbie Smile Everyday
Re: [QUAD-L] airline travel
For the first 10 years after by accident I traveled extensively. Atlanta and Chicago for demonstrations. New York for the war and Washington DC for lobbying (antiwar demonstrations). Indiana. Texas. Arizona. Hawaii. Northern Cal and Vegas more times than I can remember. A couple epic, Multi-month road trips throughout Mexico. All of this taught me a few things: #1 I'm glad I traveled a lot when I did because the older I get the more fragile I feel and the more difficult it seems to be. #2 the effort it requires from our family and attendants is huge, draining and can't be overestimated or underappreciated. #3 physically and emotionally traveling by air lines is the most taxing form of travel, promising more drama and trauma than anything else I've tried. #4 though many airline staffers are well-intentioned they are terribly/dangerously undertrained to help us get on and off the airplane safely #5 our wheelchairs are treated even worse #6 every time I've had a disastrous breakdown with my equipment I have somehow found brilliant mechanics that have patched my tech back together. (the gold medal goes to a back alley handyman/ repairman in Mexico City who reconstructed an entire electrical motor that had been shattered by cobblestones and a crashing motorcycle. He did this in one day (and would only accept $20 for the work). He fabricated multiple parts from scratch. He reconstructed the aluminum housing from the remaining shards, by freehand welding, which, by the way is completely impossible to do with aluminum. When I got home, my local rehab technician installed the replacement motor from Germany. When it fell apart a year later-- I was young and I freely admit abusing my equipment – – the tech installed the Mexico motor while we waited for yet another replacement from Germany. When that replacement went kaput I went back to the Mexico motor and it lasted another six years until I gave it away to a Mexican charity.) #7 if I could fly on a plane while in my own wheelchair, tied down the same way I am tied down in a bus or train, I would travel the world. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Thomas E. Cusack tecn...@sbcglobal.net wrote: well, got back from a college reunion a week ago and looked back on what the airlines can do to a power 'chair.i use a Braun Triwheeler (like the one Ralph Braun used) and left Chicago and the device worked perfectly. Got to Phoenix and somehow the gorillas in baggage tried to plug the batteries into the charging jack they blew a fuse in the controller. Now who/where am i to go to get this dinosaur fixed They even offered to fly my backup device to take the place of the broken one. Well the accessible van rental co. (Stan Nystrom from Performance Mobility) took one of my many calls and said, 'Hey our techs are pretty good, let's have them look at it'. Well he came to the airport picked up my wife, me and the broken device. We got to his store in Mesa, his techs took it apart, found the blown fuse, fixed it and I was on my way to the reunion. Stan really came thru for me but travel with my TriWheeler is getting cut way back! Tom C C6/7 45 years
[QUAD-L] This spring im going to invest in a electric assist attachable handcycle
Guys I currently have been using my manual attachable handcycle for five years. Have put approximately 1500 miles on it with only two chain adjustments and replacement of one front tire. I have also had to rebuild my c5 grips three times over the five years. I learned that the part of the c5 handgrip you put your hand in is a rollerblade wristguard which can be bought on ebay. the other parts of the c5 grip can be interchanged with your new wristguard and inable you to make them like new for 25.00 instead of the 300 cost of a new set. This year I completed at least 30 miles a month and had problems with one elbow and had to stick to level surfaces in order to heal. I was looking on the rio mobility website and they have came out with a new attachable bike that has power when you need it that can be adjusted. Then I can get my workout but not get hurt when I encounter a big hill or want to go further out to a destination. The price is crazy for 2395.00. I paid 1100.00 for my manual version of the rio dragonfly, but it was so worth it. Once you get the clamps put on your chair and get everything adjusted getting it on and off takes about a minute by myself. I stay in my chair with my standard wheelchair cushion which is great. here is a picture of the electric version I plan to purchase in spring.tell me what you guys think http://shop.riomobility.com/eDragonfly-Power-Assist-Handcycle-8-A.htm
