My Life

On Thursday July twenty-nineth 2004 I went swimming at Hogan center up in Danverce. So when I woke up I had walked to my draw holding my walk cane with my good hand and then I took out my bathing suit. Then I walked in to my bath room to get ready to take a shower. After my shower I had sat down to put on my bathing suit later I had walked back over to my draw to take out my dark blue shorts and light blue short sleeve shirt too to get dress. When I were all dress and with my shoes on I had wheeled out to the kitchen to pour my ceareal and coffee. Later I had my bowl of ceareal and my cup of coffee over at the kitchen table. A hour later I had got ready to go swimmming at Hogen center. A few hours later when I were at Hogan I were ready to go swimming. There were about six or seven people in the great big swimming pool some of them had very serious disabilities and in a wheelchair too. In the great big pool I had swam until eleven o:clock then I had been pushed  out to the van in my wheelchair by a male staff person to get loaded on the van and I had rode to work to count thirty styrofoam bowls but first I ate my lunch. I had to count thirty styrofoam bowls and another client would bag them. At three o:clock I had rode to my house with a staff person that works at my program. When I weere home the staff person had pushed me in my house then left. I had wheeled to my room to type on my computer then I ate my dinner later.  But a few hour from now at eleven o:clock at night I am going to bed nighty, night.

Do you know that a serious disability could easily happen to you and there is no going back. All that it takes is that one big wack on your head like if you are  slipping on a match of ice and you land on your head hard.  Or if you are skiing and you don't see that tree in front  of you and you smack your head hard or you hit  a  great big giant rock with your head or you hit a rock jumping off of a bridge or being hit by a motor vehicle you could go from a able bodied person that don't need any help to a disable person that need alot of help. I should know that because I am a disable person I can not do what my brother and sister could do I can not run, jump, ski, ride a two wheel bike, or drive a motor vihicle but I could walk by holding on to a four prong cane. So be careful what ever you do like if it is snowy and ice out and you don't have work don't go out
little things like that could keep you safe then sorry later.

On Saturday the twenty-fourth 2004 at three o:clock all of the people here in the McLaughline house including me started loading in the van. Then a staff  person that works here name Steve he drove the van to a market called home goods where two other vans were waiting to take us to the half shell to see the band three dogs night in concert. There were hardly no traffic going in to Boston to see the concert at the half shell. When the van that I was riding in stopped. Then the van went in the back of his van to unhook my wheelchair to push me out to the wheelchair ramp to bring me in my wheelchair down. When I had got off of the ramp there were a mob of people waiting to see and here the band three dogs nights. So me and the rest of the people from the McLaughlin house in North Reading and the people from Warren house that is in Woburn were there too. All of the people that were in wheelchairs was on the lawn at the half shell waiting to see the rock band three dogs night that was in concert that night. The band played at seven o:clock at night but two other bands opened for them altogether it were at great night out. Later we had got loaded in the vans and was driven to home goods where we had to get unloaded off and we had to get laoded on a van called the Health South van and then I rode back to the McLaughlin house. When I had got in the house I had wheeled my wheelchair straight to my bed room and then I had got ready to go to sleep in my bed.

On Friday July twenty-third 2004 I went to work at nine o:clock in the morning with my driver named Rosa. A few minutes later when my driver had stopped her van in the drive way at where I worked. She then went in the back of her van to unhook my wheelchair and then she pushed me in the building in my wheelchair When I had got in I had got up on my walk cane and a staff that works at my program had to strap a long black gate strap around my waist so that I could  walk by holding on to my walk cane. When I had got up from my wheelchair with my walk cane I then walked to the bathroom with a male staff person to wash my hands and then I  dried my hands off. So I  had walked back down the hall way  to sit in a chair and then I had to count thirty styrofoam bowls and another client would put them in a plastic bag. I had done that until eleven thirty then I went to eat at the restaurant across the street called McDonnal's but I had to be push over in my wheelchair. At McDonnal's I eat had crispy chicken sandwish and a yogurt and I had drank a cup of coffee. Later I had to go back to work. So a male staff person pushed me back across the street in my wheelchair and in to the building to get up on my walk cane then I had to walk up the hall way to the bath room to wash my hands so that I could go to work and count thirty styrofoam plates. A few hours had past right by until it was time for me to go home to the McLaughlin house.

On Thursday July twenty-second 2004 I got up from my bed then I had walked by holding on to my four prong cane over to my draw to get my bathing suit. Then I had went in to the shower to wash myself with soap and water. After my shower I had put on my bathing suit and I had got dress in my redshorts and dark blue shorts then his sock and shoes. At nine thirty I had rode to Hogan with Steve. A few hours laterwe were at a building called Hogan regional senter and I had got ready to go swimming. Their were a few people that was in the swimming pool when I had got in. In the swimming pool I swam back and forth and I swam under water too. I had swam with a guy name Patrick and I had told him how was camp Jabberwocky and what I did there too. At eleven o:clock I went in to the shower there to wash the clorreen off then I got dried off and I got dress and Steve help me too because it was getting so late. A few hours had past until I had went to work. I worked on counting thirty styrofoam bowls and another client put them in a plastic bag later I went home

On Monday morning June twenty-nineth 2004 my sister drove to my house to pick me up. So she drove her white jeep in to my driveway out side of my house and then she went in to my house to get me to walk with me out side then we took off. We were riding for a few hours until we had entered Cape Cod  and my sister kept on driving until we all had got to woods hole. Then she had parked her jeep  and then I walked out with my walk cane I could not believe that there were a whole lot of people that were waiting for the ferry to get to shore including me, my sister, her husband and their  two kids too. When the ferry had got to shore all of the people had got a board the ferry and then the ferry had sailed for Martha's vineyard. A hour later when we were at Martha's vineyard we all had got off of  the ferry and when I had got off of  the ferry in my wheelchair there were a whole lot of people that welcome me and a person even pushed me to a camp that was on the vineyard called camp Jabberwocky. At camp jabberwocky I had this beautiful loaded with charm big tall blue eyes blond lady as my counselor when she had saw me then I could see a twinkle in her eyes every time that she saw me. When she had walked in to my cabin every morning to wake me up with a kiss and a hug it was just like waking up to a beautiful angel we had spent the whole day together with the other campers and their counselor's from our cabin. Most of the campers that go there get around in wheelchair's and some on walkers including me. But when we was going to the beaches the director of that camp perfered that I walked in and off of the big red bus while I were holding on to my walk cane and then I would walk down the big very long board walk to the water. On a few nights there would be some people drumming on the sandy ground at the beach and there would be a big cook out and dancing on the state beach too and if some campers and their counselor wanted to go swimming they could go swimming in the lake at the state beach. Some days when it was hot out I would decide to go wind surffing kayaking and conoing and I even went swimming too. Some days I would get in a van with a few campers and their counselors and we would ride to a  barn to go horse back riding and some days I would paint or make a statue with clay that you would use in a cilm or some days I would go on location to paint what I had seen.  But one day all of the campers and their counselor that were in my cabin went to the black dog resturant for breakfast and then I walk to take a couple of picture on location. When I was in the fourth of July parade they made me go in my wheelchair just because there was a whole lot of people on the  left and right of you cheering you on as you walk or ride in the parade. And the people that was in the parade had their floats all decorated up the floats were beautiful. One day I had gone to a state fair and I had to be pushed in a wheelchair and there was a great big mob of people buying and selling stuff and there were a big musicule band too. At camp Jabberwocky I sang a song from the Beatles every Friday night and I painted a painting that sold for 350 dallors and I sang in a choris too and I had done other stuff at camp too. At the end of my third week of camp I had went back to my house with my sister. But before I went home to me house I had went out for lunch with my beautiful blond female counselor from england and she went on the ferry with me to meet my sister at woods whole later we had said goodbye to each other and then my sister had put my suitcases in the truck of her jeep then she  drovve me  home to my house.