My Road to Recovery

You would have thought my injury would be sports related but it wasn't. Here are some updates on my road to recovery since injuring my leg in June.

Challenges I’m facing:

• Fear of reinjuring my leg.
• Not sleeping very well due to my lower back (and surprisingly not my leg).

Good things that’s happened:

• NorthYork General Hospital staff is really good.
• Meeting Harry Greenblat of Helpful Hands, he drove us to the ER within 30 minutes of calling him.
• No need to wear shoes!
• Having friends and family sign my cool green cast (including my pet bird Lulu has been spending time on it!).
• Family and friends have been very supportive.

What’s next:

• Will be checking in with the surgeon at NYGH in two weeks

Thank you for all the messages of support and concern from everyone!

Equal Grounds Training Pilot

It’s always been hard as a person with different ability to find suitable work. So my brother and I started up a company called Equal Grounds to help create job opportunities for people with different abilities and also focus on technologies to enable us to be more productive in work and for everyday life. On Saturday, July 6 we had an Equal Grounds training pilot and we invited a few people from TPWHL to pilot this program. On the day we did a lot of exercises to help us open up and we also had an opportunity to try a technology called the EyeWriter, a device that enables us to draw with the movement of our eyes.

The glasses for the EyeWriter was heavy on the face and I had some trouble using it but it was still fun. It’s exciting to think that this technology is available and to think about the possibilities that could come from this technology like surfing the web, checking email and among other ideas. I felt that the exercises helped me open up and better understand ourselves. The one I enjoyed the most is the “Good and Bad”. For example, “What is the bad of sunshine?” And the answer someone would give is “dehydration” or “sunburn”. Overall I thought it was a successful training pilot for Equal Grounds and I think all the participants had a great time and they are very interested in continuing with our company. We will also hold a bigger training program in August.