I was injured about 3 months ago on Easter Sunday. When milestones pass by like this it reminds me of how they say, “You’ll have 60% of your total recovery by month 6,” or, “You will pretty much be recovered at 1 year/18 months/2 years/never,” depending on which expert you are asking. I suppose I’m ahead of the curve as far as SCI recoveries go, but it still feels rough.
This morning I had another good training session with Jeremy. I was on the treadmill for half an hour with just the AFOs again. At the end I pushed and increased speed until I got to 1 mph for the last 2 minutes. That sounds like a snails pace but it was blazing for me.
After training my dad and I went to the ground-breaking for the new RIC hospital, which we found out will be called The Ability Institute of RIC. It was a really fancy presentation/show, with music, plenty of speakers including Rahm Emmanuel (Chicago’s mayor), a couple state senators and also some wounded vets. Really cool to hear the stories. It looks like the new center will be way, way ahead of the curve in technology. Totally state of the art. I figure I’ll still be an outpatient when it opens in 3 years to take advantage of it. I wonder where I’ll be by then… Sadly I didn’t get any decent pics.
Anyway I have a ton of work to do tonight. And I’m also beat. Not sure I’ll get to the work until morning at this point.
Buenas Noches (no idea why I’m using spanish today),
Chip
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