Tuesday, October 25, 2011

<<Phil Thorn Collage.jpg>> A snapshot of what I've been up to recently!

FW:

Phil preparing to walk down the ramp with aide of a walker for the first time!

We admin staff in the office love to look out the window and see the progress Phil is making – he’s  so committed and focused it’s inspiring!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Arise and walk!

Last Saturday my sister and my Mum took me to Maidstone park in
Upper Hutt where I walked with my walker for one and ahalf hours
with no stops to sit down for a rest. A couple of days ago my
Physio took me from the GYM' at Laura Fergusson out through the
door and down the wheelchair ramp and down a sloping section of
tarseal and got me to turn around and sit down on the seat that
the walker has and then we walked across a section of grass and
back up the wheelchair ramp again!
Today my Physio took me from the dinning room at Laura Fergusson
out into the carpark and we walked half way down the road that
leads to our home, over the bridge and the steep section either
side of it and over the speed humps, I had to slow down for them
as I was exceed the speed limit, yeah right Phil, who are you
trying to kidd! This afternoon I was on the treadmill and I did
25 minutes with no stops and then another 8 minutes after that
and my legs then needed a rest! A big day and every day is
getting bigger and bigger for me!
I am working towards doing the around the bays event next year in
Wellington and walking the whole way using my walker! God
willing!
The dream of walking again is becoming reality and it is so
exciting and incredible, all the hard hours of exercising day in
and day out are starting to pay of. They used to call me a
hollow man, as a majority of my muscles throughout my body had
wasted away and I have had to work to restore all of them back
again! My Physio used to say that it takes every grain of sand to
make a beach and the same with muscles for the body, they all
need to be working together to allow you to stand and walk! We
are amazingly designed creatures and to have the freedom to move
around on your feet is no small thing! Take it from me, it is an
incredible priviledge that many have never experienced and
probably never will either! There life is living in a chair and
bodies are not designed to sit in chairs all day and every day!

Monday, October 10, 2011

 

 

Moira Lipshaw

Programme Manager

Laura Fergusson Trust

Lower Hutt

04 5676024

moira.lipshaw@lft.org.nz

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