My Life

You  know that it is not easy for me being a guy with a disability. I have to struggle with myself to get to my feet because it would be kind of hard for me to bend my right leg. When I am getting up from a sitting position on the floor But luckily I have great function on my left side of my body like I have great movement with my left arm and I could open and close my left hand with out thinking about it. I could also move my left leg and my left foot too. I can curl my toes on my left foot and point my whole left foot to the ground or point my whole left foot up to the ceiling and my left arm and left leg is the strongest part of my body. But my right arm and leg are weak and I can not open and close my right hand like I can my left hand just like I can not move my right foot but I could move my right foot a little by concentrating really hard to point my right foot up and that is all  My brother and sister can not tell when I might fall so that is why I have to wear a helmet on my head and I have a perminet chin strap on my helmet and  I have to concentrate really, really, hard when I am walking by holding on to my four prong cane and I have got to keep my balance too. When I am walking by holding on to the handle bar with my very, very, strong left hand and moving with my very strong left arm and left leg and foot too I have to put almost all my weight on my left leg and when I am leaning on my left leg I can not fall that easy because my left toes on my left foot could press down to the ground so easy and I can hold my toes there while I am still walking while holding on to my four prong cane with my very, very, strong left hand. My right leg keeps me standing there when I am walking but my left leg and left foot really helps me to keep my balance. Because if I lean on my right leg I could fall over and my whole right foot could collapse because my toes on my right foot do not have any strength and I would fall on my whole right side and that would hurt me too so that is why I wear a long ankle brace on my right foot   I was the only one in my family that grew up with a disability so I were left out of a few sport like skiing skating baseball gymnastics and other kinds of sports. When me and my family would spend the winter up in New Hampshire across from Attitash mountain I would be kind of jealous Because my family would go out skiing with their friends and I would be home alone watching television and playing with my toys too. But now I am living at the McLaughlin house in North Reading I had been  here since back in the year 2001, but now I want to move on three of my friends had past on and there is not the same staff people here no more and I want a girl friend too but some times I am too shy to ask a girl out and I do not know what a girl would say to me because of my disability. Most of the time I am a little jealous seeing a couple and I have no one and it is kind of sad being a lone too. And I am kind of tired asking for a girl friend and one of my Friends saying to me look at that person he do not have a girl friend when that is kind of not right. And he might think that the reason why he can not have a girl friend is because he is disable. I mean that I have feelings too just like the next guy I maybe a guy with a disability and it maybe hard for me getting a girl friend because of my disability. But I still want a girl friend without some one saying look at that person he don't have a girl friend and that person would already be married or have and girl friend and that not right and not fair either. That disabled person have got just the same right to have a girlfriend or a boyfriend just as much as you do and because that person is disable shouldn't make a different. In fact that disable person needs someone even more. Because that disable person could not do every thing that a able bodied person could do and that is very, very, true too. Like I go to camp for two weeks.At camp I am around good people that would help me do the things that I can not do for myself or is hard for me to do because I only have the use of one strong hand  every year then for twelve long month I am at my group home in North Reading, and I have a room alone Luckily there is some staff people at my group home that would help me if I need help. There are also eight residents that I live with in this great big group home in North Reading and if I want to II can wheel outside to the garage to transfer on to my dark red six wheel motor scooter to drive across the great big long very wide parking lot and then drive into the dunking donuts restaurant and buy a coffee I mean what if I might fall and there would be no one to help me up and it is hard to get up when you have the use of one strong arm and one strong leg and the other side of your body is weak. I which that there were a time machine so that I could go back in time and do things a little bit different like staying in the house a watch television so that I would not be disabled in the first place. But there is no real time machine and I have to live as a disabled person. But thank God that my left arm and my left leg are strong and thank God that I could walk by holding on to my four prong cane with my strong left hand and walking with my strong left leg and when my very strong left leg is moving my right leg move with my very strong left leg too

Later it was five o'clock p.m and a van driver had drove to the Douglas house in Lexington to pick up me, Judy, and Derek up and to drrive up back to our group home in North Reading. So when me, Judy, and Derek were all loaded on the van the drive had drove out of the Douglas house parking lot  and we had rode for an hour up the high way in the dark sky there were a lot of traffic too. When we were five minutes away from the home goods parking lot in Reading I had called the office at the group home in North Reading and I had said that we are five minutes from the home goods parking lot. So the van driver had unloaded us off of his van and a staff person had load me, Derek and Judy on to the dark blue van then he had drove us back to our group home in North Reading then it was seven o'clock p.m. it were dark outside so when me, Derek, and Judy had ate our dinner in the kitchen then we all had went to our own bed rooms to watch our television for a while then then it was getting darker out so I had went to bed at eleven o'clock p.m.

On Thursday February nine 2017 I had woke up at six-thirty in the morning so that I could sit down in my wheelchair and so I had wheeled myself to the bath room to take a nice warm shower. Then later after my very warm shower after I had dried myself off I had wheel back into my bed room and I had put on my long dark blue pants and I had put on my light red short sleeve shirt and my white socks and right ankle brace and I had put on my sneakers too. So at seven o'clock a.m. I then had wheeled myself out of my bed room and then I had wheeled into the kitchen to have some eggs and toast too eat and a warm cup of coffee to drink too. So then later I had wheeled back into my bed room so that I can watch my television for a little bit and then I had uploaded two paintings that I had made in a program called outside the line studio in Medford I had painted one on Monday February sixth 2017, and I had painted the other painting on Wednesday February eight 2017, so then a male staff person had walked on my right side while I were walking by hold on to my four prong cane he had walked me around my house then when I had sat down in my wheelchair I had decided to type on my web journal for a little while. Then I will watch my television in my bed room for a while.Me and all of the resident here living at the McLaughlin house in North Reading, suppose to have three lovely ladies over our house but it had snowed a lot on Thursday February nine 2017, so they could not come over my group home here in North Reading, called the McLaughlin house so all that I had done was sit back in my wheelchair a watched my television in my bed room for a few hour or see a show on you tub on my internet. But on Tuesday February seventh 2017 a lady from a church called Saint Theresa's had came over to my group home called the McLaughlin house and me and the seven residents in the house had to go into the great big pink room so a lady from Saint Theresa's could say some prays with me and the other residents here at the McLaughlin house. After saying prayer to God Donna had gave out all of the same prayer book so that we all could sing some spiritual song. But then I had wheeled into my bed room and I had turn on my television to see the patriots day parade that was down in Copley square and whet a great big parade it was I had saw a billions and billions of people with long pants on and long shirts on and heavy coats and jackets on too braving the freezing, freezing, cold and with a lot of snow flakes blow and rain and carrying unbruller's too and I had my Kodak camera up to my television screen taking a video of the parade and I had even got a video about when every buddy that were in the audience down at Copley square in Boston were cheering for all of the Patriots that were riding on different kinds of great big duck boats vehicles and at the  end of the parade I had uploaded the video's to my you tube and face book too now any one can see the video just type GeorgeRusso67 and to see them on face book just search for George Russo I am the disable guy in the wheelchair wearing a helmet on his head. At two-thirty p.m two lovely ladies named Diana and Lezley had came over to the McLaughlin house with all different types of plants for me and the other residents to plant inside a few big bowls inside our group home called the McLaughlin house. A few hours later had past until after ten-thirty p.m at night I had went to sleep in my bed. On Friday February tenth 2017 that morning I had woke up at six o'clock a.m and then I had got into my wheelchair so that I could wheel to my bath room to take a very nice warm shower then after I had dried myself off I had what back into my bed room so that I could get all dress in my long dark blue paints and a light blue swirl ti-dy tea-shirt I thought that I were going to my program but I didn't because there were way to much snow outside so I had just stayed in and then I had watched my television for a little while. Hours and hours had past until the time was two-thirty p.m and a male staff person had asked me to get loaded on the great big dark blue van outside to go to the Douglas house in Lexington a few hours later me, Judy and Derek had arrived at the Douglas house in Lexington so the driver Paul had walked with Judy inside the Douglas house and then Paul had walk outside to the dark blue van to unhook Derek four wheels for the van floor and then push Derek into the Douglas house then Paul had came outside again to unhook my wheels and then he had pushed me into the Douglas house that was in Lexington.  At the Douglas house I had took the elevator down stairs where the gym was and there were seven volunteers and one of the person that volunteer on me had me walk holding on to my four prong cane back and forth in the hall down stairs at the Douglas house in Lexington  and he done my arm exercises too and Judy and Derek volunteers had did exercise with them too.