Same as Larry. None because I was flat on my back for the longest time with a tracheotomy and a halo. I first could only get up any manual chair (this was 1980) and did not get my first (Everest & Jennings) wheelchair until much later.
My mother was dying of cancer so she sent both of my sisters up to where I was at at rehab at Sunnyview Hospital in upper New York State to learn my care before I went home. I don't know if they sent me home early because of my mother deteriorating rapidly or because it *was* time for me to do so. I came home in November of 1980. Before going to rehab I was first in ICU for around 3 months or a little longer near by my home and then after needing my neck fused (and still having a tracheotomy) I was moved to another nearby hospital that had a very small rehab unit for me to receive range of motion, etc. but all of this time I was flat on my back. I was also there at the hospital a total of 3 or 4 months before I went to rehab. I was injured at age 15 and did not come home until I was 16 1/2. A total of 13 months. I then lost my mother only 6 months to pancreatic cancer that she fought for a long long time. It took her a long time to get diagnosed as well. I remember her getting sick before my accident but she just thought it was the flu or a bug or something because she had periods of nausea (unexplained) and probably some other things but being only 14 and wrapped up in my own teenage life I wasn't paying too much attention. Then my accident happened and it still took her a long time to get diagnosed after I was an inpatient and diagnosed as a quadriplegic. I lost my father when I was only 13 so that was a terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible 3 years. 1978, 1979 and 1981. While I was in rehab my mother had an addition built onto my one sister's home and purchased a brand-new full-size Dodge van for my transportation. On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Larry Willis <[email protected]> wrote: > None. I couldn't even feed myself. > > Larry Willis > Retired and proud of it > > > Begin forwarded message: > > *Resent-From:* [email protected] > *From:* Bobbie Humphreys <[email protected]> > *Date:* January 28, 2017 at 5:09:05 PM EST > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* *[QUAD-L] Rehab/housework* > > When you al were in rehab, how much training did you get for doing > housework, like cooking 🍳 laundry, vacuuming, making a bed or grocery > shopping 🛒? > I had many classes, in OT, on how to do all of the above when I was at > Kessler Insitute. > Bobbie > > "Be the change you want to see in the world". Gandhi > > -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean Koontz
