----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Danny Hearn <[email protected]>
To: RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, April 5, 2013 11:50:28 AM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Accident
Yeah--he is probably in that 1st year or more angry stage still, full of what
if..and if only i'd did something different or etc., perhaps he will be a
friend
later. It's funny when I go shopping or to a restaurant and see another
quad--they and I usually recognize each other as a fellow quad, lol - One guy
begged me for a wheelchair race after eating at hometown buffet... He said
no-one had ever beat his fast chair, at the time I had a faster invacare that
went 7.5-or 8 miles per hour--we ended up a dead even -tie lol, he was
surprised, my newer invacare chair is a lot slower than my last chair. Dan H.*
________________________________
From: RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, April 5, 2013 10:46:36 AM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Accident
Quadum is a club that you earn that noone wants to be in. This boy did nothing
that most every other boy does at one time or another, he just was unlucky that
day. Just like most of us he never thought it could happen to him. I went out
yesterday inmy chair around my two mile trek around the hood and noticed a guy
in a chair, with a van and a newly installed wheelchair ramp on the house. I
tried to talk to the guy but he snubbed me and went inside...lol. I guess hes
in
the..........im going to walk stage
ron c7
________________________________
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, April 5, 2013 10:07:37 AM
Subject: [QUAD-L] Accident
It simply kills me to hear of another young person becoming a quad. A local
high
school baseball team is in Florida to play in a tournament. Yesterday the team
went to the beach during free time. One of the young men, Travis Gaines, dived
into the surf and hit a sandbar. Serious injury and instant paralysis. The
accident is almost identical to mine back in 1971. He has already had
emergency
surgery and is critical condition. He attends Lexington Dunbar high school in
Lexington KY, just a stone's throw from me. You can google for the full story.
Heartbreaking.
Sent from my iPad
