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My hospital bed is pretty old (I would guess about 20 years). It was donated to a woman whose husband was a PALS. After he passed, she donated it to the local ALS Association. Due to the difficulty of moving the bed out of her house, the ALS association simply left it in her house for...

I admit to having gotten a bit lax on my wheelchair maintenance. My capacity to do things is limited and I have chosen to use that capacity doing other, more interesting things. Unfortunately, I have had two recent wheelchair failures that are completely due to lack of maintenance. So, I am...

When I returned from a ride yesterday and deployed the wheelchair van's lift, I noticed a shiny bolt laying on the van's floor. It was pretty obvious the bolt had come from my wheelchair, but where on the wheelchair was unknown. I checked the wheelchair over pretty carefully and was fortunate...

Lori and I had an exciting trip to the Grand Canyon this fall. It was a bit different than we had planned for, but we were able to pull it off and had a great time. There were a few challenges we had to overcome. We had finished our Yellowstone trip in early October and had planned two weeks...

My wife and I returned from our fall trip to Yellowstone last week. It was a good trip and the weather was much better than on recent trip we have taken to that part of the world. We spent a week in the Grand Teton National Park and then three weeks in Yellowstone National Park. We camped...

We wound up making a trip to the emergency room earlier this week. I was woken up by significant pain in my ankle. I have a rheumatological condition (mixed connective tissue disease) that causes periodic joint pain, so a bit of an issue with a joint is not something I get terribly excited...

My wife and I took a 4 week trip to Yellowstone National Park followed by a 1 week trip to Grand Teton National Park this spring. We left home in the middle of May and arrived back home last week, in the middle of June. I drove our motorhome and my wife followed in the wheelchair van. We...

We had scheduled various spring and winter trips to the Grand Canyon in 2020 and 2021. Unfortunately, due to Covid and issues with our motorhome, we had to cancel each of those trips. Being the optimists that we are, we went ahead and scheduled a trip to the Grand Canyon for spring of 2022...

My voice continues to degrade. I can still speak, but my voice is weak and thready. It is more like a loud whisper than a normal voice. It also requires significant effort to talk this way. I was referred to an Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) doctor at the University of Colorado hospital who...

I have been out of touch for the last month because my wife and I were on a trip to southwest Utah. We just returned today and it will take me a few days before I am able to start posting details of the trip. It was a wonderful trip and we had a great time. We have never done anything quite...