Please join us this Sunday April 22, 2012 at 1:00 pm at The University of Toledo's Rec Center to see The Toledo Crash, Nick's wheelchair football team, play The University of Toledo's Varsity Football Team! Of course UT's team will play in wheelchairs too. It's a fun game to watch!
We'd love to get a lot more people to attend these games so join us if you can and please pass this info. on to anyone you may know who would be interested.
On a side note, Nick recently got his new sports wheelchair! It is titanium, which is the best part to us, so it can take a lot of bumps and hits which means less wheelchair repairs / expenses for us!:-) It's made for wheelchair court sports like football, basketball, rugby, etc. It's light and easy to move in. Also, speaking of wheelchair rugby, if you've never seen the movie Murderball, rent it. It's a great movie about wheelchair rugby players. I'll warn you, there are sex scenes and a lot of bad language, but it's totally worth watching the movie even if these things offend you (you can skip those parts!) because it's inspirational and just a great movie!
Here's a few pics of Nick's chair:
Nick now has a manual wheelchair (we use when we have our van, not Nick's van, because our van does not have a wheelchair lift and this chair is light and we can lift it in and out of our vans-plus he needs to propel in this chair or have someone push him), a power wheelchair (he uses on campus and when he's out and about and when we have his van with the wheelchair lift), a beach wheelchair we got recently for use on the beach and in sand (we can't use any of his other chairs in the sand, the can't propel in sand-the beach wheelchair has huge wheels for sand), and now his sports wheelchair for court sports, a walker (he really doesn't use this much anymore, it's not so efficient), a Segway with a special seat we had made for him, his paralympic hand-peddled bike, his AFO's (Ankle-Foot Orthotics or what we call "leg braces"), his hearing aids and FM system for his hearing aids, and of course his new van with a wheelchair lift. Insurance paid for his manual wheelchair and his power wheelchair, as well as about 75% of his AFO's and that's it.
I think we need to build a shed one of these years coming up to hold all of his equipment which is mostly all in our garage or his van and the house. But we wouldn't have it any other way:-) It's just how Team Hyndman rolls!
Blessings:-)
Amy
Greg's license plate - "Team Hyndman"
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