Sunday, October 15, 2017
Do you know what it was so, so, so, hard for me to function growing up every day with a disability and I was the only one in my family that grew up with this disability too. Everyday growing up on thirty-eight Dexter street in Medford I would want to go outside and to just sit on the steps to watch the people walking by my house on the side walk and then I would kind of wonder to myself why can't I walk like them? Because the people that were walking on the side walk in front of my house on Dexter street walked with out holding on to nothing. So with my four prong cane at the left side of my body I would hold my four prong cane on my left side of my body because my left arm could move while my left hand grip the grab bar that is on my four prong cane to make my four prong cane to move me and my left leg could move while my left foot takes a step and when I took a step with my left foot that would help me to move my right leg and foot too. So I could just play in the back of my house in my yard or I could play in my house with my toys or watch my television. But I would get kind of jealous of my brother and sister because they was not disable like I was and our parents let them go across the street to play with their friends. But I could not cross the street Because a lot of cars and trucks likes to speed so fast on the street and if I walked across the street with my four prong cane I will just get hit by a car again or a truck because I walk really slow and I would take my time crossing the street too which I am very, very, glad that never happened to me again like it had did when I were still living at Tewksberry when I were two in a half years old in the year of 1968, Most all of the time I felt that I were left out doing certain activity because of my disability like when me and my family would ride up to Bartlett new Hampshire in the winter months I would see all of my family puting on their snow paints and ski boots and then walking on snowy ice and then walking across the street to ski at Attitash mountain and I was just sitting in the house on the light brown recliner chair with the television box in my left hand watching television and when my brother and sister go out with their friends at night I would still stay in side of my house watching television because if I had gone out those nights I would had slipped on the icy and snowy ground and getting another bad head-injury which I am glad that I had staid in my house those winter months live up in Bartlet new Hampshire. I love going outside in the spring and summer months because I would walk by holding on to the grab bar on my four prong cane when I would ride up to Bart let new Hampshire.. When me and my family were back in Medford I would ride in a van to a separate school from my brother and sister call the cotting school because of my disability and at the Cotting school there were a very big long hall way and there were two flights of stairs on both sides of the hall way for able bodied students and teachers to walk up and down. But there were also two elevators for the student that were in manual wheelchairs, electric wheelchairs, and on crutches too. that time it was in Boston across from the Charles River and I would ride home to my house at thirty-eight Dexter street. When I had got to my house all I could do was just watch my television in my house and I could go outside to walk by holding on to my four prong cane most of the time I had felt like I were in Isolation because of my disability. But in the year of nineteen-eighty-five I had went to the Massechusetts hospital school that was in Canton and I would stay there the whole week but I would only ride home to thirty-eight Dexter street in Medford on Friday after noon but I would ride in a van back to Canton every Sunday after noon. There I would wheel to school every day in my manual wheelchair and after school I had plenty opportunity. Like I would wheel into the very, very, great big and wide gym there and I would use the weight room with fifteen different weights machines and some days I would swim in the great big long Olympics size swimming pool and there would be alot of people working in the gym too so I would talk to different people there and some days I would wheel to the barn to see the goats and horses and some days I would even wheel on the great big long nature trail to see all of the different types of trees and bushes and some days I would use the bowling Allie in the big long wide gym or I would go in the snack bar that were in the gym too.. There would be different very disable people that were in manual wheelchairs and electric wheelchairs and some kids that were in electric wheelchairs that needs a lot of help. When I were there I use to live in different cottages too but I still did things with my family. Living with a disability makes it that much harder to do stuff but thank God that I still got use with my left limbs of my body I had use of them all of my life. My strong left arm could stretch real high and I could make a big muscle with my left arm and my left hand could grip stuff really, really, tight like a full cup of coffee and a full glass of juice and grip the handle bar on my dark red six wheel motor scooter and my strong thumb on my left hand controls my leather stick so that my motor scooter could go backwards and forwards take a right or take a left and my left hand could grip the handle bar on my four prong cane too and when my left arm and leg move my right leg follows. I wish that there were a time machine so that I could go back in time and doing something different in the year of 1968, like staying inside my house in Tewksberry and watching my television so that I would never get in my bad car accident. But I know that there is no such thing as a time machine so I just have to keep moving forwards and who knows there maybe something better out in the future so I could walk better and my right foot and toes could move much more easier just like my left foot and toes then I could make them stronger too and then maybe I could walk better. Right now I am a young man with a disability and I am live in a group home in North Reading. I had moved here back in September of 2001. Now I am riding down to the Douglas house in Lexington every Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays afternoon at four fifteen p,m to work out with some volunteer's and with a few residents from my group house too. When me, Judy, Derek and Larry load in to the van and first the van drive had to hook mine and Derek wheelchairs to the vans floor then the driver drove us home See no one that is working in my house knows what it is like for me being disable Most of the days I felt like I were in isolation because of my disability I mean it is true that my brother and sister grew up without a disable brother and my mother and father had a disable old son but they do not know how I felt about my own disability. I am a adult now and I feel that it is hard for me to get a girlfriend because of my disability when I tell my some body that I need to find a girlfriend then they would say look at our friend Rego he do not have a girlfriend or John he do not have a girlfriend that is not the right thing to say to your brother with a disability and number one they do not live with me neither one lives with me and number two they are not disable like I am and they could drive a car or a truck and I can't and I do not like someone telling me why I should not have a girlfriend even thought that they are already married that could hurt someones feeling like mine they should know even though I am an disable person I do have feeling. I found out that talking is not enough if you write it all down then that will be enough.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
On Tuesday October tenth 2017 I had got up and off of my bed at seven-thirty in the morning and then I had sat down in my wheelchair so that I could wheel into my bath room to wash myself then after I had dried myself I had wheeled back into my bed room to get all dress I had put on my bright red BU shorts and I had put on my dark red soot sleeve shirt on too. So then I had opened my bed room door then a female staff person had came into my bed room to help me to put on my white socks my long right ankle brace and she helped me to put on my Velcro Sneakers too. Then I had staid in my bed room for a little while then at eight-thirty a.m I had wheeled a cross the long bright blue rag and then I had wheeled into the dining room where a male staff person had poured me some honey bunches of oat in a big bowl and then he had poured me a warm cup of coffee too. Later I had wheeled back into my bed room to turn on my computer so that I could look on the internet for a while So then I had heard my buddy Mike's voice beside my bed room door so I had said hi Mike how are you doing today? He had said good to me then II had said you know that I was quite supprize when I had came into my group home in North Reading called the McLaughlin house on Monday October ninth 2017 from riding all of the way from the Douglas house that is in Lexington because I work out with some volunteer's on every Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. So when I had arrive to me group home I were quite supprize because Anthony Grassos's sister name lirredder she had supprize me and all of the resident at the McLaughlin house with a pizza party and a bag full of lots of presents too and it was a great night too That night I had told Anthony's sister all about Sunday morning October eight 2017, riding up to Lynne and having church at a great big building called a inn. Because we can not have church at Calvary Christian Temple because they are making the chaply bigger and long and it won't be complete until Christmas 2017. on Sunday October fifteen 2017 me and Anthony are going for a ride in a great big white van up to an Christian book store up in Pebetee and that is where me and Anthony would be ride to go to church on Sunday now jjust until the Chaple bbe completed at Calvert Christian Temple
Saturday, October 07, 2017
On Saturday October seventh 2017, I had woke up from my bed at seven-o'clock in the morning then I had stood up on the floor on the left side of my bed so I had sat right down in my wheelchair. So I had wheeled into my bath room and I had poured liquid soap on my face cloth and then I had turned on the Fosset to let the water soak my face cloth so then I had washed myself and then I had dried myself too. Then I had wheeled into my bed room to put on my dark brown long legged sweat paints and I had put on my black and blue swirled shot sleeve shirt and I had put on my white socks and my right leg brace and I had even put on my Velcro sneakers too. So at eight o'clock a.m I had wheeled into the dining room to pull my wheelchair into my spot at the table and then the male staff person had poured me some Honey bunches of oat cereal and he had poured me a glass of apple juice too. When I were finish with my bowl of honey nuts clusters and my tall glass of apple juice I had then wheeled into my bed room to watch the Andy Griffen show on my television for a little while. So at nine-o'clock a.m I had open my closet door and then I had got out my black vest to put on myself and then I had wheeled out of my bed room and so I had wheeled right across the living room floor and so then I had wheeled out the front door and then I had wheeled right down the winding cement ramp so that a male staff person could push me in my wheelchair on the elevator ramp so that he could push me in my wheelchair down the big wide van floor and then the male staff person had hooked four of my wheelchair wheels to the floor of the great big wide dark blue van and then the male staff person he drove me down to the Spaulding hospital in Boston. A few minutes later when we had arrived the male staff person had open the back door to the great big wide dark blue van to get me that was in my wheelchair and to pull me that were in my wheeled and then he had pushed me right into the Spaulding rehab building and there were a lot of people in the spaulding rehab building too. At the meeting the were a lot of people at the meeting that were sitting on chairs at some great big wide round tables that were in the meeting room at the Spaulding building. At the meeting there were three people up front and different person got to ask a question to a different person. A few minutes had went by and then the time was twelve o'clock in the afternoon so the staff person had pushed me that were in my wheelchair out to the great big dark blue van the load me into the van then he had drove me right to my house the were in North Reading, called the McLaughlin house. A few hours later we were back at the McLaughlin house so my wheels of my wheelchair were unhook from the van floor and then I was pushed into the house to eat my lunch in the dinning room later I had wheeled outside to get on my dark red six wheel motor scooter so that I could drive over to the dunking donuts restaurant to order a medium maple peacon coffee and I were drinking my maple peacon coffee over at a table in side of the dunking donuts restaurant while I were watching the television that were in side the dunking donuts restaurant and I were reading the news paper too that were in my great big basket on my six wheel motor scooter. When I was all finish drinking my maple peacon ice coffee I had put the empty coffee cup into my cup holder that is tape onto my motor scooter and I would drive my six wheel dark red motor scooter over to to trash can and then I would through my cup away into the trash can then I would drive a cross the big wide long parking lot to my house on my six wheel dark red motor scooter. So I had drove up my drive way and then I drove in the back of the house to see what kind of fruit or vegetable is growing in my garden and then I would drive straight to the garage to transfer to my manual wheelchair and the I would wheel right into the McLaughlin house and then straight to my bed room where I would watch my television for a little bite. A few hours had past right by until it were to dark outside so I had looked at the time on my bird clock and the time was ten-thirty p.m so I had went to sleep in my bed nighty, night, George Russo.
