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[Ben]

I'm a para living in saskatoon saskatchewan canada. i've been told what too do and what I'll never do again or i shouldn't this or that. Well, faq very much but if I can see it in my head I can probably do it. I goto the dragstrip with an old 75" chev truck with a 502 in it. I shouldn't I might get killed! I bought a 4x4 quad. I figured out how i would get on it on my way too buy it. Same thing again. I own a 350 Odessey from way back in the 80's. Same thing again. If you have good hands and arms doit, try it out and see. Don't forget protect that back and wear a helmet. i've spent alot of monet just too prove too myself that i could and those people were flat out wrong. Sometimes you have too get mad, angry, etc... Sometimes it doesn't work as good as yo thought and thats always a bummer but don't stop don't quit. your body will only take so much and last so long so if you think you can don't wast time get out there and doitdoitdoit. This also comes from waiting on people. we do that way too much. I'll be a 19yrs. para and am wearing out but I'm not quiting till I can't get out of bed and more. So if you are going post injury crazy go get a quad, a fast car, or just jump out of a plane. I might just make a few calls and do that myself!!!!

[Miguel]

Never a truer word said.

[LuckyinKentucky]

I agree with you as well.
Being just 5 years post I can recall many things that i have done that I was told "you can't". More often than not I have done said things to prove to myself that it can be done. Sometimes after going through with whatever activity it may be I will realize that it no longer fits into my life and the juice is just no longer worth the squeeze... sometimes the squeezing is just too rough on the old equipment ya know... and as for the other more personally rewarding activities.... well if you aren't living then you're dying.

One of my favorite sayings is "you play you pay". That being said I absolutely love to play and do so much harder than most, also now I see payment as a part of the game. Being disabled we have to do more with less... and we rely on that same "less" once back from the trails or after the race. Nothing like having to switch to a southpaw for your program because you pissed off the old tennis elbow, or metacarpals again.

OK I'm getting off my I think I'm just grumpy cause I'm seeing more of the paying as of late, just figured out today gotta do repairs on the car I just bought to fill the gap for the truck I bent the frame on last month jumping hills out back, I probably never should have widened those 4 wheeler trails huh...did I mention that I liked to play.

[Ratticis]

I'm currently in the process of builinf a car to race in wetaskiwin.