Its All In Your Perspective

Powerchair Diaries has his latest installment up. It's about life in a power wheelchair.

Teaser:

At this writing, it’s the week of my 38th birthday, also marking 32 years of my using a power wheelchair (though, not the exact same one, as that would be downright weird considering that my career is in wheelchair design and manufacturing – it would be like Apple’s Steve Jobs using a Sony Walkman from 1982 instead of the iPod that his company invented).

32 years of power wheelchairs – think about that for a moment. That’s 11,680 days that I’ve spent in a power wheelchair, or approximately 186,880 hours – the literal equivalent of 16 hours per day, 7 days per week, for 32 years. Yet, when I maneuver through a restaurant, people still comment how well I “drive that thing.” After, 186,880 hours of practice, one would hope that I can maneuver past a freakin’ table and chairs without smashing Bubba into the buffet.