November
11/30/2022.
It's COLD. "Feels like 25F" is really cold. Before this cold front passed through here, we were just eager to bike.
11/29/2022.
My favorite coincidence happened again today. On the way home from Kofenya (coffee shop) (my husband still stayed there), I was walking, at the stop light, the very familiar face waved at me from the other side. I looked at him over and over again because it’s been a while since I’ve seen him last time. He is our son’s wonderful friend through HS XC and climbing. He bravely finished study abroad in Germany. (He flew back home yesterday!!) He guided his family in Berlin to show everything he learned with his German skills. Even he went to Climbing gym in Berlin and he loved their bouldering caves/walls. He is going to play piano at his church for the big Christmas show in December. Well, we talked about these (I kept asking questions, you know) on the street. Now I’m pretty sure you are wondering “How long did you keep him to make him answer those questions??” I was too excited to let him go. I walked along him to his destination (lunch place). We walked by Kofenya, then my eyes were twinkling! I asked him if he wanted to say hi to my husband, then I took him to my husband’s table. (They know each other.) Yes, that much I was super excited. It’s like a Christmas luck/charm, so I felt. I'd love to follow his future stories (his job, his dream), just like "where our son will be end up to for his favorite thing = his job."
This kind of coincidence made me feel "It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
Photos: my fence for December.
11/28/2022.
I just started doing Christmas décor, slowly and smilingly.
11/27/2022.
One more week, then it will be the final exam week for Miami students and all professors (yes, including my husband). I'm gonna send a tiny cheer to all. Good luck!
photos: My Christmas cacti day and night. They are all blooming now.
11/26/2022.
When you parked at the gas station and found very familiar faces, two of them, you gotta jumped off the car, ran into them and hugged them tight. It was such a great coincidence and I needed that hugs very much. Our connection was "Let's talk in Japanese" summer club (I named it). She came over my house and tried to chat in Japanese. It was fun. At that time, she already had her future vision, her dream, her enthusiasm and more in her mind. I was impressed and wanted to hear more from her. She now goes to GWU (The George Washington University) in DC. Her smile was shining more than ever. So as her mother's today. I'm looking forward to this kind of coincidence more and more. They gave me energy a lot today. I will send cheers to her.
photos: today's family biking @Harrison
Entry#100! 11/25/2022.
I’m simply grateful for having gorgeous sunshine during Thanksgiving break. It makes me smile a lot. We tried to be outside for soaking up the sun. Our tradition, Thanksgiving hike on the trail. We’ve been doing this tradition for a long time since we usually don’t do big gathering celebrations, it’s always only us. No stores are opened in town, even a coffee shop. (Of course not.) We naturally go into trails. My husband is still middle of figuring-out-stage about “how to be in the woods trails with his wheelchair or handcycle.” Once again, we play by ear, we improvise, and be flexible + creative. It was a good try today anyway. We were at Hueston Woods. I was happy to be on the trail with my husband, it was just that simple.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
I'm thankful for our friends all over the world. I'm thankful for my husband's strength especially inner strength. I'm thankful for my son's moral support, technical support, physical support for his father/my husband. Yes! I've got plenty to be thankful for!!
Entry#99. 11/24/2022.
Speaking of garage, ours is two-door garage. We have two cars now (RAV4 and Sienna) but half side of the garage is filled with handmade bike rack and other stuffs (mower and lots of stuffs). One stays inside, the other stays outside. Only when my husband is on a passenger seat, he can get in and out from a car inside the garage. You might wonder now, why? There has to be an extra space for setting a wheelchair by the car-door. The door has to be wide opened during transferring. When he is on a driver’s seat, his left side is the wall of the garage. There is no space for the wheelchair. So he will get in and out from Sienna outside of the garage since he drives most of the time. (You know, I need to set up a car outside before we go out. I need to park a car in the garage after my husband get inside house. Every time. Yes. Every time.) If it’s raining and pouring, I drive so that he can get in a passenger seat inside the garage without getting soaking wet. Eventually, sometime in future, I should do rearrange or something inside the garage, making it more practical for my husband’s independent car-life. (Not sure how I start, though.)
Then our son shared this photo with us. He found it on internet search.
He said “How about this driveway roof? We should make it, we could make it by ourselves with some helps.” You can guess how much I was pleased with his thoughtful offer. This kind of roof would be perfect for our situation, our son is right. It might be a good start to make a plan for it, maybe. (I wonder if I should fix “driveway” first because we have a huge flooding problem on driveway. It’s ill-drained.) Well, I have tons of problems to solve indeed.
photos: our long driveway
11/23/2022.
P.S. This special gadget (the red one) works pretty well. Crossing railroad is always tricky to my husband (to two front casters of wheelchair) but this time it was a smooth move.
Entry#98. 11/23/2022.
Our house has two stories, no basement, two-door garage, a front door with 2 steps and a back door with one big step-gap to patio. Most of the rooms have carpet (only dining room, kitchen and hallway are no-carpet). It is not an accessible house (basically) for wheelchair (paraplegic). Right after the accident, my friends asked me “Are you gonna find another house and move? One story, accessible house?” At that moment, I felt a bit freaked out asking myself “Do we have to move out of this house into another house?”
Our great generous friends and volunteers stood up for us and built a new roll-in shower room and expanded a doorway/door from the garage. Thanks to their hard work, my husband got his entrance (from the garage) and his shower room. (There are his bedroom and dining/office table.) At least he can access to kitchen to reach refrigerator. So I could say it’s set for a minimum standard of living for my husband in our house here. Then we started our new normal. As you can see, there are still many parts that have to be fixed/remodeled in this house. I just set them aside, keep setting them aside for now. (I’m not a DIY person for that big projects. I wish I was.)
photos: One year ago, we visited Louisville for the first time. I did step out of my comfort zone (I made it to that long distance driving) and I was relieved very much after we finished whole trip.
Entry#97. 11/22/2022.
Right after discharging from the hospital (impatient care), my husband had OT/PT sessions regularly at Drake center. It was for upper body strength most of the time. Then he found the Spinal cord injury specified facility in Louisville, KY. It’s Frazier rehab institute. He tried to have Physical therapy sessions 2 times a week. One session was 90min long (including prep time). Louisville is about 2 hours 30 minutes driving distance from our house. We stayed one night at the hotel (yes, it was an accessible room for the bathroom sink.) so we managed 2 days therapy sessions a week, every week. We loved Frazier’s program a lot, especially the part SCI related and focused on stimulating legs’ muscles. This all was before the semester started. After he went back to teach this semester (and there were some issues around July/August), we stopped visiting Louisville (sadly). It’s challenging to manage both teaching/researching and driving to Louisville for therapy, very much.
We still have to manage upper body exercise, legs massage, and stretching-out exercise. Plus my husband’s favorite is “standing” exercise with a standing frame. In fact, there are standing frames for medical uses. (Drake has this kind.) https://youtu.be/4yfLJBTPzl8
My husband modified a walker into his own standing frame. (We improvise, you know?) Seems making his body putting on standing position is really important. Blood flow, less pressure on hips and more. We try to do this everyday.
photo 1: his own standing frame.
photo 2: at Frazier therapy
11/21/2022.
We made it to go biking/handcycling this evening. Hurray! It was still cold. But sunset color was just beautiful.
11/20/2022.
It's so cold this morning, feels like 20F. Heard the news about Buffalo, NY.
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/11/20/1137579787/buffalo-western-new-york-snow-photos
Love snow, but I pray for people in Buffalo, hope people there are ok. Then looking at another old photo. My son once helped out for youngsters hockey program. Nice memory.
photo2: library snow display from the past. Just "good" amount of snow would be wonderful.
Entry#96. 11/19/2022.
The education/school system in Japan was so different than here in US in my era, especially high school life to me. I had no idea that high schools could have a musical show production. I had no idea what indoor drumline was. I was shocked, impressed and astonished when I watched the shows with my own eyes. Since I wasn’t a high school student (yes, I was too old.) I sent my son into the drumline team no matter how much he was interested in. Funny. I was eager to know “what’s happening” “how it’s like” “how they create their show”, so I used my son to discover that for my curiosity. It was a good old time. I miss that. (Oh, ask my son sometime if he missed it. I’m not sure about his answer.)
Musical shows are another fascinating things. I googled about the latest news about Japan musical productions and learned something new. In my high school era, it was true that there wasn’t much productions for musical shows (except for the big name companies). It seems there are several now. However they are specialized very much, it’s like expensive special schools. So it’s still fascinating that local public high schools in US have musical show productions. In fact they are really high quality shows, I can tell. I used to go watching high school musical shows (Talawanda high and Union County high). Loved all of them. Also I made it to visit Richmond musical shows thanks to my wonderful librarian friends, twice. Loved them so much.
Aaaaand, I have a great news here. I am going to watch the musical “Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn” in December, with my sweet friends. (This isn't the high school production. It's a youth training program production in Hamilton,OH. The show will be at the theater in Middletown, OH.) I’m super excited, I’ve been doing happy dance every day. That much I’m already happy. The highlight would be finding my friend’s daughter in that show on the stage!
Leaving my house for that kind of long hours in the night, it was nothing before this our “new normal” life. It’s a bit different right now. So this would be my special night, yes, it will be. I’d love to give you an update on that in December.
Photo: in Richmond in 2017
P.S. 8 years ago today. We had tons of snow in this town. Do you remember? And I had to add this. I saw a FOX(!) in my backyard. (Photo1 is our boydog; Ranger)
Entry#95. 11/18/2022..
My husband introduced me these 2 super awesome men. Have you heard about them? It’s happening right now in US, yes, it’s an ongoing epic Bike/handcycle Trip across America!! They are from UK (I believe). I highly recommend to check it out because they are amazing and inspiring in many ways. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/crossingusa
Entry#94. 11/17/2022.
Snow is falling. I love snow. My hometown in Japan has many snow in the winter. Snow days at school in this town were always exciting. To me: Snow = Ski and snowman. Also snow = shoveling my LONG driveway. I kinda like my shoveling though. It’s always a good workout. In our new normal life, my husband is still thinking and planning about “how to learn to sit-ski (mono-ski)”. He is expecting that he could be on ski slopes once again. He continues searching/seeking. It’s a good “stuff”.
On the other hand, we have to think about snow road/pavement/sidewalk for wheelchair movements. There are two small front-casters which are always stuck in mud/gravel/grass/lawn/bump. Snow might be a problem. Then my husband introduced me this awesome “gadget”.
https://rgkwheelchairs.com/wheelchairs/power-solutions/frontwheel.html
Basically he adds an extra wheel at frontside. Two small casters get on the air (no touching on the ground). You should ride on with it because it feels totally different in great ways. This “gadget” itself is heavy. But once it’s set on his wheelchair, it surely makes him feel safer and confident. On snow days, he might need to exchange wheels (to thick ones) then he will be ready to go wheeling with the extra wheel gadget.
11/16/2022.
Our son sometimes shares photos of his "pots" with both of us, my husband and me. It made me smile and happy. It looks awesome and wonderful, sometimes it looks "too many" or "way too big". Then it makes me wonder "wow, it looks his major is the fine ART." He has his favorite things to do, that's just awesome. Photo: the first firing is done. He says he will pick the colors for these which is another fun part of pottery art.
P.S. Do you see a penguin-like shaped something back there?
Entry#93. 11/16/2022.
When my husband got a job at K-State (Kansas State University) as a pos-doc, I met many great wonderful staffs/researchers/professors. I greeted my husband’s boss’ wife, the professor’s wife, as well. She was so elegant and took care of me to comfort me for my first US life. I learned how she did hosting lab/home party for everyone. At that time, I was amazed feeling “Wow, I never can be like her as a professor’s wife.”
Then my husband got a job in Miami University in 2008. He started his own lab. Automatically I became a kind of “professor’s wife”, funny. I haven’t changed at all, I was just me and I’m just me now still. But there is always my own expectation deep inside me, I wish I could be just like her. And there is forever. I think that’s a good thing.
Right now, I’m a paraplegic professor’s wife. There are many great wonderful wives of paraplegic people in the world, I’ve learned about them through internet/social media. They make me feel “Wow, they are way too brave, great, strong and influent. I couldn’t be like them.” But I do keep following/watching their life (their efforts) to encourage myself and get energy for my husband. I’m still me, you know. I think that’s a good thing, too.
P.S. I guess this topic is related with my motherhood as well. Seeing my son grows as a man, I still keep asking myself “am I a good mother?” and I will keep asking in future with smiling.
Photo: Red Christmas cactus is up now. I have two more different colors coming up. How’s yours?
Entry#92.
Ok, hope this one, this entry can make you smile and give you good laughter. Hope it’s a good one for you. But don’t tell my husband. (I’m grinning and chuckling.) I found these videos and my eyes were twinkling this time. (Try to click the links if you want to watch them.)
“Paraplegic parenting in the early months”https://youtu.be/FqCPmlLggL0
“Paraplegic parenting: Lifting a baby off the floor. https://youtu.be/-7PVNAfW-vw
This awesome paraplegic YouTuber is one of my favorites. I’m a big fan of him and his life style/skills/knowledges. (Fun fact is that he lives in Ohio!!) Watching his videos about “how to take care of his infant” “how to lift a baby”, it made me think of our future of future. Like “what if our son gets married and has a baby?!”, that future. See? Now you are laughing? (Because our son had no high school sweetheart at all, no indication of girlfriends still. You know our son.)
I was amazed and thrilled seeing this paraplegic man had his own ways to “carry his baby” “change baby’s diaper” “take care of his baby” “lift his baby” and more. It looks incredible and I feel how much he cares about his own baby very much. Then my imagination gets bigger and bigger. I do hope my husband would have enthusiasm for taking care of his grandbabies willingly, just like this YouTuber paraplegic man. It’s my tiny hope in future of future. (I know the baby’s safety is the number 1 priority and we would ask our son first politely. I would.) Imagine that my husband is carrying his grandbaby in his wheelchair naturally. That’d be just wonderful, don’t you think?
Entry#91. 11/15/2022.
My husband and I had a short driving trip to West Virginia because we had a “mission” last weekend. It was raining plus foggy, but we managed it anyway.
We had an interesting experience at the mall. We stopped by to get some food at food court inside the mall and to use a bathroom if it’s usable/acceptable. The mall has a garage parking which is good for rainy weather to us. We saw accessible parking lots at the very entrance area (ground floor), but we kept moving to upper levels to seek more accessible lots. Then we couldn’t find any more at upper levels. We parked anyway because there was enough space for us. He got off from a van and transferred into his wheelchair, started to wheel to the entrance gate at the upper level. We noticed the curb around the entrance(!), no slope at all. There was no way to enter inside with wheelchair unless I do push/pull with special ways. I was shocked, you know? After all, we discovered about this construction of the mall, wheelchair accessible entrance was built only at the ground floor (that was why accessible parking lots were only the entrance area.). The building had two entrances (north side and south side), but the accessible one was just on one side. So we had to wheel to all the way to just get to the entrance. It was kind a long “walk”. The food court was on the third floor. In fact, we parked near the third floor (food court). However, we had to enter from the ground floor, find the elevator to reach the food court. I kept being shocked and surprised during this visit at this mall. Well, it was our very first visit (and I know it never happens again for sure), but who knew this design of construction about accessibility. I learned a lesson again. It was sad to me, but sometimes I need to guess some possibilities of both good and bad. It was true also that it was very frustrating to take longer time to enter the mall, just enter there.
If this situation would be in our own town, I would do some actions to improve the settings to the city or some places, I believe. This time, I just let it be, and consume the facts. Oh, and about public bathroom in this mall. It was not enough “clean” “sanitized” (you know?), so there was no chance to use it. It was an interesting experience, yes, it was.
Bright sides: found a good coffee place. My husband is looking forward to seek around “New River Gorge” sometime in future. https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/nrgbridge.htm
Entry#90. 11/14/2022.
Recently social media is everywhere and we rely on internet information all the time. We cannot live without computers/ cell phones, don’t you agree? After my husband’s SCI life started, I’m glad that we could get many information through internet especially about SCI lifestyle, body conditions, problems and questions. Some topics are very sensitive or hard to chat with people, even with SCI people. For example, how my husband pees in public bathroom. How he pees in bed at night without getting up. Each SCI people do different ways, of course. But sometimes we wonder how others do and sometimes we could get great tips, good tricks from others. First several months, my husband managed and created his own peeing style. At one time, when he was driving home, we were stuck on the road because of the crash ahead. We had to think how to pee in our car if the time has come. At that time, he hadn’t done it yet, we weren’t so sure about it. (After all, we were able to drive through the accident area soon enough.) Then my husband found this video which was very helpful and informative to us. I have to say this, this lady is such a “champion”! sharing so many information-videos to other SCI people (especially for women). She is way too BRAVE and honest. Her spirit is wonderful, strong and inspiring deeply.
Once we got some knowledge from her, my husband is comfortable and confident with peeing in our car whenever it’s needed. It’s such a relief, you know? When you travel, at least you feel safer knowing you can pee whenever it is and wherever you can find to park a car.
Before knowing and mastering this, we always needed to search a coffee shop with accessible entrance and bathroom. Now our driving (traveling) life got easier a bit by bit.
11/13/2022.
These runners are my very first real "athletes" in my life literally. Still vivid memories to me.
Entry#89. 11/12/2022.
My husband would make sure if there is an accessible room (wheelchair friendly) available in the hotel/motel when we travel and stay. The front desk lady would answer to him smiling “Yes, of course, we have.” There are different settings at each hotels and I learned that so far. Most of the time, it’s “okay” because he can use sink to wash hands/face, blush teeth. Most of the time. Shower areas are quite different each time. One time, it was a roll-in shower which surprised us. (However it was too narrow small space to move around, sadly.) I always would feel grateful that my husband could stay inside a hotel room with wheelchair. However when you see these settings (photos below) in an “accessible room”, it gets your feelings so so down.
As you can see he isn't able to use this sink. The table also. His knees cannot be underneath sink/table.
Even the front desk lady told my husband confidently “Here is your room, sir. It’s an accessible room. Have a good stay.” It was just sad. (Spaces, doorways, parking and elevators were fine.).
At least, at least we need a knee-clearance-sink. I’d say “thank you” deeply to the hotels with knee-clearance-sinks. Hopefully all over the world gets this idea. I do hope so.
I had to add this one though. It’s a wonderful side of hotel services. You see photos? There is a hidden pullout table-extend at a good height for wheelchair users. My husband did sign on the paper on this table. My eyes were wide open with gratitude.
Entry#88. 11/10/2022.
It’s getting very popular now to find vegetarian/vegan/plant-based sections/aisles at a local grocery store. Looks there are many choices. I’ve not used these products before because I didn’t try any special diets or special cookings. I read several articles and I know there are several friends who have food allergies. They might need to use special ingredients. I should have known more about foods/cookings, maybe. One time I bought veggie-patty for our home party a while ago, however, it didn’t work well because I had no knowledge of vegetarian food at all. It was an interesting experience though. Then it’s kind of amazing now to see how much variety of plant-based foods at grocery. Have you tried some?
My husband’s paraplegic body condition needs a special diet, I believe. Because he doesn’t have any controls on bowels movements. However he needs to “control” it regularly, preventing severe constipation or diarrhea. I understand that wives of professional sports players (NBA, NFL, Olympics players) cook special diets for their athlete-husbands. I’m not at that phase yet, I like cooking but I’m not good at “calculating calories” yet. However I learned something about Impossible burger which is very interesting to myself.
My husband prefers to eat less-meat meals. It’s better and easier to digest. I can cook with tofu, but we don’t eat tofu “everyday”. So it was good to have an option with Impossible Burger (Impossible products) to me, I could cook with it creatively. I heard “keto diet” “gluten-free diet” “no carb diet” and more. I just haven’t gotten into these stuffs yet. I need to think more though, for my husband’s health and body. For now, I’m playing with Impossible meat from grocery store. Oh I have to add this. You should try “Impossible southwest bacon whopper” @Burger King. You should!! Because it was good! It might be an eye-opening experience to you.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/burger-king-new-impossible-king-southwest-bacon-whopper
11/09/2022.
PINK Christmas cactus is up now. Two other colors' are almost ready. It might be the most blooming in this house ever. wink wink. I believe yours are blooming as well?
Entry#87. 11/08/2022.
Once my husband got back to teach/research/professor-stuffs, things are just rolling and rolling. Everything around him gets busier and busier. Sometimes it gets overwhelming and we just manage those routines without any fun activities. It is all good for both his physical side and mental side. On the other hand, there are some parts he cannot fix and he has to live with. (Of course, there are.)
1: constant fears.
There are always “fears” in his mind which won’t go away for the rest of his life, sadly. For example, he worries about risk of infections (UTI: urinary tract infection. Sepsis from UTI or from bed sores), bed sores, broken bones, pulling muscles, damage of kidneys and so on. During the day, all day long, he keeps thinking when he needs to urinate, how many times to empty bladder, literally all day long. His brain has no resting time at all. That’s hard, tough, difficult and sad parts of his new normal, his new life. We accept that and move forward with that, that’s us right now. We are gradually getting used to it, however it’s “hard” to have fears constantly. He never shows, you know.
2: constant uncomfortableness from paralyzed body-parts.
He seems to have some uncomfortable feeling constantly which seems to be related with spasm or bladder. Even though he doesn’t have any sensation from the waist down, unfortunately, he has this kind of uneasiness. And I have no idea about that feeling at all, it makes me feel sad very much.
As long as my husband could have joyful activities, such as handcycle (road-bike and off-road-bike) and sit-ski, he would live with strong, positive mind. And I would cheer him on as much as I could. Tricky part is, once his leg gets swollen (thigh, knee, foot or hips), he needs to wait without activities until the swollen goes away. Usually it will take 4-6 weeks. No handcycle for 6 weeks is really tough and oppressive to keep ourselves positive. But we live with that, also. We do hard things together.
11/07/2022.
This tiny addition makes me smile all the time when I go out with our minivan.
11/06/2022.
Our son was born in Manhattan, KS. When he was in 1st grade, he moved in Oxford, OH. He would say “My home town is Oxford.” for sure because he doesn’t remember much about his kindergarten age. He has Japanese parents (obviously). We all speak in Japanese at home all the time. I think he has very unique cultural background(?), unique personality(?). Here is one from several reasons. Did you know Japanese parents don’t say “Love you” to their children? Did you know that? So that means, Japanese don’t say “Love you, mom.” “Love you, dad.” to parents at all. It’s a cultural thing. Here is a very “accurate” video.
Just because I've lived in US since 2001, I love to use the phrase "love you" to my son. I'm embracing US culture, like that. However my son never use it.(!) How do you think about that? Funny. You might laugh when you see our conversation. Here are articles if you are curious.
https://www.interviewarea.com/frequently-asked-questions/do-japanese-say-i-love-you-to-their-kids
http://friedchickenandsushi.com/blog/2022/1/5/why-japanese-couples-never-say-i-love-you?format=amp
11/05/2022.
November makes me feel "I can do more things!" like decorating for holidays. Looking back at my old bulletin board decoration. Good old memories. You know? Glass case display (3D) and bulletin board display (2D) are quite different to create. I love both styles. Sometimes "making bulletin board look like 3D" would be more fun to challenge. What do you think?
Entry#86. 11/03/2022.
Here is our boy-dog, Ranger’s health-condition updates. He came to our house in May 2010. We were told that he was a bit over one year old, but it seemed he was younger than that. So he is 13 years old now. He is blind. (It was related with genetic issue. It got progressed gradually. It wasn’t much problem to him.) Recently his both eyes got lens luxation. We guessed he had severe pain at one point and it got settled now. He has an everyday treatment (eye drops) now to prevent glaucoma (controlling eye pressure). His eyes look like “zombie eye”, poor him. (But please don’t worry it’s not infectious at all.) Then we realized that he lost his hearing as well. He still reacts some level of sounds. But we say he is now a blind/deaf dog. He has still good mobility, doctor said his back bone is really great condition. He still has huge appetite. Happy boy. Surprisingly he still does several tricks with our command (especially my husband’s command works the best). We love him and he needs our love. He now needs our “touching” more than before. I attached one YouTube video because it’s very inspiring knowing about blind/deaf dogs. Yes, we do hard things together.
11/02/2022.
My husband is a biologist. He has many researchers/professors friends in this town and all over the world. Biologists, entomologists, microbiologists, zoologists, so on. He sometimes gets bags of “Ready-to-eat Insects” at the huge wonderful international grocery store (Yes! It’s Jungle Jim’s. https://junglejims.com/ ). Have you tried to munch these before? One of his great scientist friends, the entomologist, would use these “insects” for his classes, introducing them to his students. I imagine that his students who want to be entomologists in future, would be excited to taste it. Also I imagine that my husband would be willing to do something similar with that classes to youngsters in town or to our community, someday, someday. It’d be so much fun, don’t you think? (I think it’d be called “Educational Outreach Program.)
11/02/2022.
I wrote something about “pants for wheelchair users” before. (If you are interested in it, try to go back to the Entry#14. 4/06/2022.) My husband found out something more recently. Since handcycling/biking is our favorite activity now, he looks for some cycling clothes. Then he noticed that cycling pants/ Mountainbike pants didn’t have back-pockets and had long-back seams. Did you know that? During biking, back pockets are not so useful. Biking (pedaling) position is similar with seating position. Long back seam is helpful for covering whole back of body. Make sense. That’s so perfect for him, a wheelchair user. It’s made with strong materials, so that’s even better. There are more things I’ve not known in the world. More we know, more comfortable we get.
photo: all pants no back pockets.
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