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[4tun8]

Can we send this thread to Letterman for his top ten of the night? mark

[Stickman]

i dont have to pay for seeing a movie! And, although it's a humbling thing to go through it all, im kinda proud I can do what I can in a chair.

[Harry3082]

While I'm here I can see Irish Wheels is also.

[Ratticis]

My shoes still wear out, but now it's usually the toes from running into stuff/people.

Pretty much impossible to lose a fight. If you kick the other guys ass, then it's "Holy crap, that guy in the wheelchair must be toughh, he beat the crap outta that other guy", If the other guy starts to get the better of you, a bunch of bustanders jump in and beat the crap outta "That A-hole who tried picking on the poor crippled guy"

[Edinburgh Colin]

Your lap makes a handy table/dump spot. Unfortunately shit tends to fall off and roll just out or reach with frustrating regularity!

[MTB John]

Edinburgh Colin, on 03 December 2011 - 04:30 AM, said:

Your lap makes a handy table/dump spot. Unfortunately shit tends to fall off and roll just out or reach with frustrating regularity!

Nope, that's a downside in my book.
Atleast it is when shopping with the wife and she dumps her handbag on me (makes whip cracking sound)..

[Ratticis]

Nobody ever asks you to get out of bed and check that the doors are locked in the middle of the night

[Edinburgh Colin]

I used to take my kids for a zoom around the rehab ward standing on the footplate of my wheelchair. Still do with with my youngest daughter when we go to the shopping mall.
Gotta love the giggles of a 3 year old.

[Tatiana]

At the cinema my and my sis were given our own viewing box at the back.

Great view, lots of room and a shelf to put our drinks and nibbles on....and only paid for one ticket! was very pleased

[Heretic]

- Never having to prove you manhood by being the 'hard man'.
- Your lap is handy for the ladies (and kids).
- No mortgage (insurance saw to that).
- Manly, muscly arms
- You've had the hardest knock life can give you, and you've survived, so you can smile and pity the moaners.

[Zack]

I've found it a Hole lot More challenging then my AB life, and that has made me a Hole lot stronger of an individual.

[Edinburgh Colin]

Heretic, on 03 December 2011 - 07:25 PM, said:

- You've had the hardest knock life can give you, and you've survived, so you can smile and pity the moaners.

I'm surprised none of us picked up on this one !

You are so right, maybe the reason we did not pick it up is just proof of how resilient we are as survivors and the fact that we continue to strive for improvement and to recognize good or upbeat items rather than what was for many, if not all of us, a dark and painful time.

It is good to reflect on a milestone in our lives and to recognize the achievement.-

[bongorum]

Edinburgh Colin, on 03 December 2011 - 11:10 PM, said:

Heretic, on 03 December 2011 - 07:25 PM, said:

- You've had the hardest knock life can give you, and you've survived, so you can smile and pity the moaners.

I'm surprised none of us picked up on this one !

You are so right, maybe the reason we did not pick it up is just proof of how resilient we are as survivors and the fact that we continue to strive for improvement and to recognize good or upbeat items rather than what was for many, if not all of us, a dark and painful time.

It is good to reflect on a milestone in our lives and to recognize the achievement.-

That really is a golden piece of wisdom, Heretic.

And masterful job of expanding on it, Edinburgh Colin. Perfectly said.

[rollingtrouble]

I don't have to climb steps or walk anymore! If I'd had known being a cripple was so easy, I'd have crippled myself up years earlier.

[LeeS]

There are quite a lot of upsides, think all of them have been mentioned already!


A new one which I came across the other week when out in town with mates was to do with girls! out in the club, next thing i know i have a hot girl straddling me and I dont remember much more due to the copious amount of alcohol i consumed!

and like Heretic said, we've been knocked to rock bottom yet we've managed to get our lives back on track and carry on the best we can!


Another great upside to me is to do with work, all my colleagues end up working outside, luckily I get off with it haha, skiverrr i know but ach well!

[Dutchgirl_in_UK]

I don't know if this counts but as a carer/volunteer I'm often pushing or accompanied by some1 in a wheelchair.
The best thing is when walking in town and you get past people who are handing out leaflets or about to start a hughe questionnaire. They usually leave you alone!

[happywheels 88]

Probably won't be using my two push bikes again LOL so just made a bucket load of money selling them.

[Cathelena]

Never having to ask "does my bum look big in this".

[mamabas]

During summer out-side events everyone else complains about mosquitos and chigger bites. I might get them but never feel them

[airart1]

hum......nope, can't think of a single one.....................

[Wobbly]

I get the seat on the train?

I get the seat on the tube?

I get fantasic opiates ? There it ends

[munkypoop]

Even though wheelchairs hurt, in my opinion, that they can be fun in a few certain situations!

[Wobbly]

mp you amaze me with your optimism we have a lot to learn from you x

[mabl8tr]

Everything we experience in life teaches us something and with the right perspective something good can be taken from any experience.

For me the good in paralysis starts with all I have learned in the 21 years I have been in a chair. Breaking my neck gave me a second chance to be a good father to my kids and is now giving me a third chance to help raise my wife's children. It has opened my mind to a spriritual life I never would have been able to imagine before. It helped me find the love of my life and has taught me patience and understanding and given me a perspective of the world that I never would have had before.

[Scott_C4-5]

A plus to being paralyzed? Hmm, I no longer wear out a pair of shoes in a few months. My 8 year old Converse All-Stars look fairly new. Other than that... not much.

[dreamerr]

I don't know I enjoyed this post cause I thought it was funny. I would have to think on the positives, I can't come up with one just yet except I find learning about all this fascinating. I just don't like the way I had to learn it.

[hannibal]

I guess I get to go fast downhill.

[StillFingers]

Hmmm, a positive...it kept me from attempting to climb the south face, well any face, of Mt. Everest! Yep twas on my ToDo list, silly me

MP, it's just another what if, I like right now, the moment, much better, in pretty much any capacity...as long as breathing, feeling, loving are involved!

Edited by StillFingers, 11 April 2012 - 06:12 AM.

[Scrappy]

Anyways bro the very 1st concert I ever went to was after my accident and it was in coloma, Mexico.. I got to be all the way down in the front and right before the last song they took me in the dressing room! No special tickets or anything, I bought the cheapest 1s.. so a friend and I got to hang out with Los Tucanes de Tijuana for over an hr take pics and get autographs.. and a few months later at the second concert I've ever been to also in Mexico I got to go all the way to the bottom again and I got hella attention from the group los inquetos del norte my fav Mexican group! And I got pics and at the end the drummer gave me his drum sticks! Oh.and they passed me a j!!! Oh and I had taken my shirt off cus I had jus got my 2nd sleave tattoo done and this girl came up to me at the end and was talkn to me and she asked if is give her a kiss and I made out with her twice! And got her number.3rd concert wiz khalifa in tahoe the most beautiful place I've been.. n again I saw wiz in reno and I was in the front. To many details bout those two last ones haha

[Scrappy]

Oh and other good thing bout wheelchair is always ready for a lap dance, always have a seat at the party, and when someone picks you up they have to open ur door and bring your chair around haha