Tuesday, July 23, 2019
It is very, very, hard being a handicap person
Hi my name is George A. Russo and I am a guy that have a disability. I had been disabled now since I were two in a half years old back in the year of 1969, you can read my story by typing http://Georgie8ma.tripod.com. and you can see my video's on facebook by searching George Russo, And on youtube by typing GeorgeRusso67 In the year of 1989. I had my right arm operated on in a hospital the doctor cut bone in side my right arm so that when I am walking holding on to my hemi walker with my very strong left arm and hand too my right arm would be nice and straight and at the same time they had fuised my rist Because my right rist would curl down backward all of the time and before I had my right rist fuised straight I had to go to occupational therapy where a theripist would make me a hand splint and they would use my right hand as a model and my theripist would put two long velcro straps on my hand splint to keep my right rist to stay down in the hand splint. I would have a new hand splint made for me every month when I were living at the Massachusetts Hospital school in Canton MA. So now since I had my right rist fuised straight back in the year of 1998. When I am in my wheelchair now I could easily show people my scars where doctors operate on my right arm and when I am walk with my hemi walker or four prong cane too. I have to be very, very, carefull to make sure that I am not falling forward because I could in fact fall right on my right hand and it is going to hurt me really, really bad that it would feel like I had landed on some thing very, very, sharp and I could not get up from the floor because I would in fact be in so much pain and it would still be very hard for me to get up off of the floor. It is very hard for me to bend my right leg even when I am sitting on the floor. Because I would be sitting there with my legs straight and I could bend my strong left leg so easy that I do not have to think I just bend it so, so, easy. My right leg I have to concentrate so hard to bend my right leg and I would make a face that I am trying to bend my right leg too. it would be hard and my family they do not know how hard it is for me. If I am sitting up in the front of a bed and my legs are hanging over the one side of the bed or in the front or back seat of a motor vehicle or even a chair I could stand up holding on to my hemi walker real easy and I like walking with the hemi walker better then the four prong cane It is true that I have got to walk some more if I didn't have all the trouble in asking different people could I walk with my hemi walk? After that person would say to my sorry I am going out for a minute or not now George I am busy or not today it is way to late for bed tomorrow and tomorrow comes and no one would walk with me. So then I would say could I walk. It really got to do with staff people that makes up some different kind of excuses why they can not let me walk. But there are a few kind staff people that would say to me ok George I will walk with you grab your hemi walker and lets walk then I would feel that my wishes was answered. A hemi walker looks like a great big giant A and you grab on to a hemi walk with only just one hand, and they should have called it a hemi cane really and I can walk on my hemi cane much more easier by myself if I concentrate and focus and see where I am putting my foot on the floor because I will admit that I could be distracted very, very, easy. I kind of do not like it when I am talking and some one is talking to at the same time that give me the feeling that the person is talking over me and I have to talk louder and I do not want to do that I would want a one on one conversation with a person. and I do not mine if another person want to talk to the same person but some people got to take their time. I am the only disable person in the family. But I do got feelings and my left arm and hand and my left leg and foot are really, really strong that side of my body had been strong all of my life. My right arm, hand and right leg and foot are very weak. When no body is helping me I have to dress myself with my good strong arm and hand which is on the left side of my body. But it is very, very hard for me to reach way over on my right side of my body to pull up the right side of my under wear and my pants too, In fact I have trouble going to the bath room I have to balance on my very strong left leg and reach way over to pull the right side of my under wear and pants too and it is very hard for me to reach way over to put on my right socks and shoes because my right foot is kind on tilt to the right side and I need some help every day. But I can not make some of my family see that Now when I am trying to walk when I am holding on to my hemi cane my right leg kinds of swings out some time and the way that my right foot point to the right side titled is from my bad accident from which I were only two in a half years old back in the year of 1969, I get kind of sad to see some one have a wife but not me. And all because I am disable and that is not right and I should have some one in fact I should have some one more now because I can easily fall on my weak side of my body and cause more damage by accident. I am afraid to say this but I need some one every day when I am walking with my hemi walker I hate some one tell me George look at John he don't have a wife and Tom he don't have a wife and I don't no if the person is make up name or what all that the person know is he have got a wife and I do not he have got some one to wake up to and I do not and I want be happy if I gets another head injury. They will keep making accuses why I should not have a wife but he is happy that he have a wife and that is no fare and not right either because though I am a guy that have a disability I do have feelings. Every summer I go to camp called camp Jabberwocky and I just love it I share a cabin with four campers and four counselors and I am never a lone there is always some body to help me. You can see my the my left arm, my hand and my fingers on my left arm are very, very, strong and my right leg, my foot and fingers are very, very weak I wish other people with out disability could see what I mean and they should feel what it is like to be disable for a day, a month, a year, or the rest of your life like me. Though it is not easy to be a guy now with a disability just like it were very hard for me being a kid with a disability to see my family doing thing that I would never do because of my disability and the nerves in my right arm, hand and right leg and foot is still damage from me getting hit by a car and my brain is still damage too. So I need some one. All of the times I would have to concentrate really, really, hard to keep my balance when I am trying to walk and I have to focus to people do not know how hard it is for me. When you are a disable person like I am you are some time alone. When I am in my wheelchair and if my very, very strong left foot is close to the ground then I would pull my wheelchair with my very, strong left foot and that would make my left leg stronger I try to pull my wheelchair where ever I go. When wheeling up a big hilly ramp I go up the hill backwards with my very strong left foot pushing my wheelchair to make my left leg stronger too. If you are a person that have a disability you are more likely to be in isolation which I had been in. The general public do not know about disability until some thing bad happen to them then they will know. Some of the public do not know about head-injury they do not know about disability either that is why they have to be educated and if you can not educate people because of your disability the make a video of you taking about how you were disable like I did and the upload your video to face book and to you tube like I did. In fact when you see me you could see which is my strong side and which is my weak side. It is kind of hard for me to pull my wheelchair with my left foot across the floor especially on the rug. Because I would have to lean on my leg to let my left foot pull me in my wheelchair which that would make my right leg automatically go straight like a board and I would even my a face to see how hard I am trying to pull my wheelchair with my left foot to get my left leg stronger but I do not mine. I just thank God that I still have a very, very, strong left leg so I could pull my wheelchair and I would go kind of fast when I am pulling myself too. And I would still stop myself by putting my very, very, strong left foot down on to the floor, and that would make my left leg strong some days I say thank God that I still have a lot of strength in my left leg. There were five people that were in electric wheelchairs from a bad brain-injury accident that lived at the McLaughlin house and me and them use to go to a restaurant called dunking donuts almost every day when we had come home from our programs and at six o'clock p.m. too and we would order our coffees and park at a table in side of dunking donuts restaurant and talked to each other while drinking our coffee's. But now they all had past on so I am the only one that goes over to the dunking restaurant now all of the residents got some attitude problem so they can't go with me but with a staff person when that staff person go to the dunking donuts restaurant of coarse. Like the old saying goes the general public do not know about head injury. They do not know about head injury until a bad car accident or a very bad slip and fall accident happened to them then they would know and you have to live with a head injury that cause a disability like I have. Some people like to talk for me even when I am old enough to speak for myself. When I am talking to people about brain injury I would say you know how a lot of telephone polls got some long telephone wires so a person could call another person on his or her phone. Now picture a person cutting a telephone wire with really sharp wire cutters you loss all communication if you tape the wires together the communication will be blocked. Just like a head injury follows a disability all of the connection from my left side of my brain to my right arm hand leg and foot of my body been block a long time ago. But thanks God that my left arm, hand, leg, and foot are still strong and getting stronger each time that I would pull my manual wheelchair with my very, very strong left leg. But when I am walking up stair I put my very strong left leg on a step first and then I would easily ben my very strong left leg so that I could get my weak right leg up on the step. But every time I would be trying so, so, hard to ben my right leg. If a able bodied person is walking with me up the stair then he or she got to be patient and to lesson carefully to the person who is trying to get his right leg on the step it is not that easy when you have got a injury like mine. I would like to see if that able bodied person to switch place with me and that person be disable for a day, a week. a mouth, of the rest of their life. Some people do not really know what it is really like being disable I do. Of coarse I had been hit by a car very, very, hard in the back of my head and I had been a guy that grew up with a disability my brrother and sister didn't grow up as a disable
Hi my name is George A. Russo and I am a guy that have a disability. I had been disabled now since I were two in a half years old back in the year of 1969, you can read my story by typing http://Georgie8ma.tripod.com. and you can see my video's on facebook by searching George Russo, And on youtube by typing GeorgeRusso67 In the year of 1989. I had my right arm operated on in a hospital the doctor cut bone in side my right arm so that when I am walking holding on to my hemi walker with my very strong left arm and hand too my right arm would be nice and straight and at the same time they had fuised my rist Because my right rist would curl down backward all of the time and before I had my right rist fuised straight I had to go to occupational therapy where a theripist would make me a hand splint and they would use my right hand as a model and my theripist would put two long velcro straps on my hand splint to keep my right rist to stay down in the hand splint. I would have a new hand splint made for me every month when I were living at the Massachusetts Hospital school in Canton MA. So now since I had my right rist fuised straight back in the year of 1998. When I am in my wheelchair now I could easily show people my scars where doctors operate on my right arm and when I am walk with my hemi walker or four prong cane too. I have to be very, very, carefull to make sure that I am not falling forward because I could in fact fall right on my right hand and it is going to hurt me really, really bad that it would feel like I had landed on some thing very, very, sharp and I could not get up from the floor because I would in fact be in so much pain and it would still be very hard for me to get up off of the floor. It is very hard for me to bend my right leg even when I am sitting on the floor. Because I would be sitting there with my legs straight and I could bend my strong left leg so easy that I do not have to think I just bend it so, so, easy. My right leg I have to concentrate so hard to bend my right leg and I would make a face that I am trying to bend my right leg too. it would be hard and my family they do not know how hard it is for me. If I am sitting up in the front of a bed and my legs are hanging over the one side of the bed or in the front or back seat of a motor vehicle or even a chair I could stand up holding on to my hemi walker real easy and I like walking with the hemi walker better then the four prong cane It is true that I have got to walk some more if I didn't have all the trouble in asking different people could I walk with my hemi walk? After that person would say to my sorry I am going out for a minute or not now George I am busy or not today it is way to late for bed tomorrow and tomorrow comes and no one would walk with me. So then I would say could I walk. It really got to do with staff people that makes up some different kind of excuses why they can not let me walk. But there are a few kind staff people that would say to me ok George I will walk with you grab your hemi walker and lets walk then I would feel that my wishes was answered. A hemi walker looks like a great big giant A and you grab on to a hemi walk with only just one hand, and they should have called it a hemi cane really and I can walk on my hemi cane much more easier by myself if I concentrate and focus and see where I am putting my foot on the floor because I will admit that I could be distracted very, very, easy. I kind of do not like it when I am talking and some one is talking to at the same time that give me the feeling that the person is talking over me and I have to talk louder and I do not want to do that I would want a one on one conversation with a person. and I do not mine if another person want to talk to the same person but some people got to take their time. I am the only disable person in the family. But I do got feelings and my left arm and hand and my left leg and foot are really, really strong that side of my body had been strong all of my life. My right arm, hand and right leg and foot are very weak. When no body is helping me I have to dress myself with my good strong arm and hand which is on the left side of my body. But it is very, very hard for me to reach way over on my right side of my body to pull up the right side of my under wear and my pants too, In fact I have trouble going to the bath room I have to balance on my very strong left leg and reach way over to pull the right side of my under wear and pants too and it is very hard for me to reach way over to put on my right socks and shoes because my right foot is kind on tilt to the right side and I need some help every day. But I can not make some of my family see that Now when I am trying to walk when I am holding on to my hemi cane my right leg kinds of swings out some time and the way that my right foot point to the right side titled is from my bad accident from which I were only two in a half years old back in the year of 1969, I get kind of sad to see some one have a wife but not me. And all because I am disable and that is not right and I should have some one in fact I should have some one more now because I can easily fall on my weak side of my body and cause more damage by accident. I am afraid to say this but I need some one every day when I am walking with my hemi walker I hate some one tell me George look at John he don't have a wife and Tom he don't have a wife and I don't no if the person is make up name or what all that the person know is he have got a wife and I do not he have got some one to wake up to and I do not and I want be happy if I gets another head injury. They will keep making accuses why I should not have a wife but he is happy that he have a wife and that is no fare and not right either because though I am a guy that have a disability I do have feelings. Every summer I go to camp called camp Jabberwocky and I just love it I share a cabin with four campers and four counselors and I am never a lone there is always some body to help me. You can see my the my left arm, my hand and my fingers on my left arm are very, very, strong and my right leg, my foot and fingers are very, very weak I wish other people with out disability could see what I mean and they should feel what it is like to be disable for a day, a month, a year, or the rest of your life like me. Though it is not easy to be a guy now with a disability just like it were very hard for me being a kid with a disability to see my family doing thing that I would never do because of my disability and the nerves in my right arm, hand and right leg and foot is still damage from me getting hit by a car and my brain is still damage too. So I need some one. All of the times I would have to concentrate really, really, hard to keep my balance when I am trying to walk and I have to focus to people do not know how hard it is for me. When you are a disable person like I am you are some time alone. When I am in my wheelchair and if my very, very strong left foot is close to the ground then I would pull my wheelchair with my very, strong left foot and that would make my left leg stronger I try to pull my wheelchair where ever I go. When wheeling up a big hilly ramp I go up the hill backwards with my very strong left foot pushing my wheelchair to make my left leg stronger too. If you are a person that have a disability you are more likely to be in isolation which I had been in. The general public do not know about disability until some thing bad happen to them then they will know. Some of the public do not know about head-injury they do not know about disability either that is why they have to be educated and if you can not educate people because of your disability the make a video of you taking about how you were disable like I did and the upload your video to face book and to you tube like I did. In fact when you see me you could see which is my strong side and which is my weak side. It is kind of hard for me to pull my wheelchair with my left foot across the floor especially on the rug. Because I would have to lean on my leg to let my left foot pull me in my wheelchair which that would make my right leg automatically go straight like a board and I would even my a face to see how hard I am trying to pull my wheelchair with my left foot to get my left leg stronger but I do not mine. I just thank God that I still have a very, very, strong left leg so I could pull my wheelchair and I would go kind of fast when I am pulling myself too. And I would still stop myself by putting my very, very, strong left foot down on to the floor, and that would make my left leg strong some days I say thank God that I still have a lot of strength in my left leg. There were five people that were in electric wheelchairs from a bad brain-injury accident that lived at the McLaughlin house and me and them use to go to a restaurant called dunking donuts almost every day when we had come home from our programs and at six o'clock p.m. too and we would order our coffees and park at a table in side of dunking donuts restaurant and talked to each other while drinking our coffee's. But now they all had past on so I am the only one that goes over to the dunking restaurant now all of the residents got some attitude problem so they can't go with me but with a staff person when that staff person go to the dunking donuts restaurant of coarse. Like the old saying goes the general public do not know about head injury. They do not know about head injury until a bad car accident or a very bad slip and fall accident happened to them then they would know and you have to live with a head injury that cause a disability like I have. Some people like to talk for me even when I am old enough to speak for myself. When I am talking to people about brain injury I would say you know how a lot of telephone polls got some long telephone wires so a person could call another person on his or her phone. Now picture a person cutting a telephone wire with really sharp wire cutters you loss all communication if you tape the wires together the communication will be blocked. Just like a head injury follows a disability all of the connection from my left side of my brain to my right arm hand leg and foot of my body been block a long time ago. But thanks God that my left arm, hand, leg, and foot are still strong and getting stronger each time that I would pull my manual wheelchair with my very, very strong left leg. But when I am walking up stair I put my very strong left leg on a step first and then I would easily ben my very strong left leg so that I could get my weak right leg up on the step. But every time I would be trying so, so, hard to ben my right leg. If a able bodied person is walking with me up the stair then he or she got to be patient and to lesson carefully to the person who is trying to get his right leg on the step it is not that easy when you have got a injury like mine. I would like to see if that able bodied person to switch place with me and that person be disable for a day, a week. a mouth, of the rest of their life. Some people do not really know what it is really like being disable I do. Of coarse I had been hit by a car very, very, hard in the back of my head and I had been a guy that grew up with a disability my brrother and sister didn't grow up as a disable
Tuesday, July 09, 2019
On Saturday June twenty-second 2019, my m mother and my sister too had came to the McLaughlin house at six-thirty a,m and then she had pushed me outside in my wheelchair to the car and then I had got in her car and the she had drove me down to get on the ferry. So she had all ready packed all of my clothe and then put them in a suitcase and then loaded the suit case in the truck of her car then she had drove me to catch the ferry. while we were on the road there were a lot of traffic and me and my sister would talk while she were drive me down to woods hole to catch the ferry. a hour, and a hour had past until I were on the ferry that going to bring me to Martha's Vinyard and then I had went to camp Jabberwock At camp Jabberwocky the dinning room where all of the campers and counsellors eat were constructed over the year to be made much larger and wider so that much my people would go in and were a play room with a fire place too so that everybody could sit by the fire to keep warm and to go in to the great big wide dining room to get a cup of coffee and tea to drink in the play room with the fire place in it because the play room and the great big wide long dining room would be attach to on another and the play room would have a wide big long table in it so that the other campers and counsellors could talk to one and another or just sit by the fire to talk to one and another. Some days it would rain at camp Jabberwocky. So some of the campers and their counsellors went up into the play room to sit and talk to one and another by the fire place or would be writing or would be playing some games at the table and some campers and their would be in their cabins cleaning and picking up ang throwing away trash too. When it was a nice and sunny day outside all of the campers and their counsellors including me and my counsellor would have a activity to go on like some would go to horse back riding and some would go in the great big wide vans to ride into town to eat and if they had brought money to buy somethings at the stores that will be in town too. Like when I were at camp Jabberwocky and I where pushed in my wheelchair in to town me and my counsellor would find a store that would be selling some really cool sun glass and some days me and my counsellor would find a store that would be selling stickers so that I could buy them I had always has some money in my big dark blue vest right right upper side pocket. One day when it was so, so hot and bright and a sunny day too every body at camp went to a state beach that had a really long board walk going down so all of the campers including my self that were in wheelchairs could go down to the beach to when I was in the water I had asked for a life vest so my counsellor name Alix had put one on me because I could just swim with one arm which is my left strong arm and that will not be a match for the great big strong waves that is in the ocean and I liked swimming in deep water too so that is the reason for the life vest. A while after I swam I were trying to walk up the beach so as my left foot would walk up to the beach my right foot would follow but my right heel the is on my right foot that would keep sinking into the sand and all of the little sticks and the pebbles to would hurt my foot so I were carried by two counsellors up the beach and the they would sit me in my wheelchair so then the would push me that were back in my wheelchair up to rest of the beach and a long the board walk too and then I would climb into a great big dark blue van too then I would ride back to the camp with all of the other campers and counsellors the was inside that van too. But the next day that I went to the beach I had decided that I were going to say on the board walk and in my wheelchair too. I could still see people swimming in the water but I did not mine at all but I had got to talk with different people at the beach and I still had a lot of fun and I say that it is better having fun then regretting it in the end. In the fourth of July parade my counselor had made a band stand and tide the band stand around my wheelchair and I were still sitting in my wheelchair too and so I were one of the singers in the fourth of July parade there were thousands and thousand of people that were watching the parade too. Two day later I rode back to the McLaughlin house in North Reading,
