Abilities Expo

The Ability's Expo was really great this year. I think a lot of the reason I like to go is to catch up with people I haven't seen since the last one. I ran into Marv and his wife when I first got there. I actually saw Marv a couple of months ago when I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, he works there and also teaches scuba diving there, he is a paraplegic. He was telling me about a new program they started at Valley Medical where they are pairing up peers and having them go from room to room to talk to the new injuries and their families and he is looking for a partner, it sounds like something I would like to do. I've been wanting to go back to the weekly support groups but I have been kind of nervous about it but knowing that he will be there it will be a lot easier. They also have one on the third Thursday of every month for peers only, I have never been to this one but here that they have a lot of fun, this one is almost all men so I'm sure I will have a good time. I also talked to Bill and Lee from Max-Ability. When I get my new exercise bicycle Bill is going to come over and help me set it up and help me learn how to use it, his son has one. His son was good friends with my cousin Patrick, small world. I also ran into Kevin from South Bay Mobility. He is going to help me rent a full-size van for our trip to Arizona and help me purchase a new van, I knew that he fixed vans but I didn't know he sold them. I met and talked to quite a few people over there and I really had a good time.  I went to say hello to Eric from Rehab Specialists and see if he could help me out with a problem I've been having with my chair. The back of my chair seems to keep leaning farther and farther back than it gets very frustrating, he showed my brother how to fix it and it seems to be a lot better. I go in on Tuesday to have Tim from National Seating do some alterations on my chair but it was nice to have the back straightened up a little bit, we put some erasers behind the seat and that worked temporarily but it feels a lot better now.

After that we went to Chili's, I have been wanting to try their new steaks and then we went to see the new Harry Potter movie at the IMAX theater but all of the showings were sold out so we went across the street and saw it at the regular theater, I really liked the movie a lot. I have tried to watch the Harry Potter movies before but wasn't very impressed, I'm going to try to watch them again.