When I returned home from the hospital, I was greeted by a cheering, crying crowd of friends and relatives. I tried to smile and hold it in, but when I saw my wife and little girl, I broke down in tears. It had been over a year since I had seen my daughter in the flesh, and I couldn’t contain myself. Generally soldiers are perceived to be tough, but it is all right for the fathers and husbands to cry a bit some times. I didn’t know exactly what to expect or how she would react to my new mode of transport. During previous fall i was hurt by a roadside bomb blast in Iraq,which got me paralyzed from the waist down. Sarah,who is my daughter, only grinned and said “Daddy.”
It has been several months since then and I still worry about my family. I worry about how they are going to take car of me. To start wth, i had no clue on how they are going to move me into our van. That’s when my wife looked into handicap lifts.Handicap lifts are devices that help disabled people get from their wheelchairs into their vehicles. It seems a bit like having your own personal swing which is fitted to a luggage rack. You just have to sit in your lift and you will be easily moved to your car. All handicap lifts have wheels on the bottom, so it is easy to move someone on the driveway right up to the car seat. Handicap liftsalso have hand cranks that allow you to lift someone as high as you need to easily transfer them into the vehicle. Once the person is safely in the car, most handicap lifts will fold up for easy storage in the trunk or backseat. They do not even need to be disassembled.
Although it hasn’t been easy for me or my family to adjust to my new condition, handicap lifts have made for a smoother transition. At least we don’t have to worry about how to get daddy into and out of the family minivan. And mommy doesn’t have to start weight lighting or eating raw eggs so she can lift me into my seat.This along with our new stairlift, makes dealing with this handicap a real pleasure.
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