My lathe/mill machine is up and running, I've been working on it everyday! I've been modifying parts and also making test pieces for testing. Thanks go out to Mark Bellman for fabricating the stand/table, and electrical hook up. Also to Rick Kuwahara for the machine function instructions...
Last Saturday I got the opportunity to drive a hand controlled go kart at Adams Kart Track in Riverside! I was called by Eric Lazar, who has an organization called “KARTING2LIVE”, which provides hand controlled go karts for handicapped people to try. I had a great time, it was the first motorized activity I’ve experienced since my accident other than driving my car. Thanks Eric!!
Thanks to Mr. Mark Bellman, I have a specially made worktable at enzo now that allows me to do suspension work like I did before my accident. I have also started going out to field tests again to help with racing and production testing for enzo and KYB in my car.
Sorry that both Ross and I have been lagging on updating the site. I’m busy traveling to the races again and Ross is busy, well, he’s busy being a badass. Check out this video of him at Project Walk!
This November, I have been driving for several weeks, and I have noticed some new developments in my recovery. First, when I had fallen asleep on my stretching table one afternoon, I noticed more temperature sensitivity on my left hip, further down than ever before! The right hip was ahead of the left one for a long time, but now the left one is starting to catch up! I also noticed some new sensations on my bottom from transferring onto my car seat! I often transfer onto the stretching table or into the van and never felt this new stuff!….
Hi everyone, Ross here! I’ve been driving for about two weeks now, and haven’t been arrested or caused any pileups on the freeway. Driving with the hand controls is pretty easy, but takes getting used to. I’ve been driving myself to the Goodwill Gym 4 days a week, then to enzo, but I still haven’t tried driving by myself to PROJECT WALK yet because it is such a far drive (and i like to sleep!). A couple of weeks ago, I was on one of the stationary bikes at PROJECT WALK, but it was not an FES type bike where there are electrical muscle stimulating pads to pedal the bike. This one just had a motor in it to turn the pedals more to move your legs than stimulate the muscles to pedal it. One of the salesmen for the bike company came in and was showing me some of it’s features. He showed me a button I could push that would turn off the motor to see how much of the work I could do on my own. I have never been able to do any pedaling on my own, but I tried to turn the motor off anyway to see if anything would happen. To my surprise, I was able to very slowly pedal the bike on my own! Certainly not Tour de France winning pace, but something! I felt like I was doing it all with my hip flexor muscles, but when I tried really hard, I felt my upper leg muscles start to cramp up! So I must have been doing something….Molly came home for her 22nd birthday last week so we got to spend some time with her..I’ve also started going out in the field for some SX testing with teams that we are sponsoring next season, and that has been alot of fun!.
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