Chris Ham will be running a marathon….. for me! to raise funds for my exo-skeleton,
there are sponsor sheets available from my brother Elliot, Dan Bunyan (Dan is responsible for the cards and sheets also the new graphics and design of “alexwillwalkagain.com”), Chris Ham or from me, there is a sheet in the King’s Head (pub in Staplehurst) and you can donate through this web site (at the top right).
THANK YOU!
i suffered really bad the past few days from the infection caused from swimming with the hedgehog… i did 18miles on my bike yesterday and 13miles today, tomorrow i plan to do two sessions (18miles) then out in the off road chair
My physio is going strong, when i came home they said any additional recovery
would stop after 6 months to a year, I’m this far on now and still progressing, this I believe is largely down to the care I received to start with, so just another thank you to everyone involved.
I’ve built and maintained this website as a record of my recovery alexwillwalkagain.com
I’ve been told “I’d never even roll in bed”, now in physio I’m working on a treadmill (assisted steps) and on the parallel bars, a quote from my website - ”Saturday I was on my parallel bars, my blood pressure was fine and the session went well, I could 
initiate my gluts, quads, lower back and hip flexors into stabilizing myself”. things are changing with my strength and sensation, my physio says it’s a positive thing but I’m not too sure yet… my legs have evened out, i was right dominant (right dominant with muscles and my left side was more sensitive) along with my thumbs… but not the left getting stronger, my right has fallen back.. It means I’m more synchronized now which is good for standing and the treadmill.. I lost the use of my right thumb over the weekend of my birthday.. But that came back after a few days, I wrote in more detail on my site. Although still reliant on the harness,
most of what I’m doing now “should” be impossible for a quadriplegic.. At present I still have no functional motor function in my legs.
As I’ve said I do appreciate every hour, every penny spent on getting me this far, the dream of walking is still just out of reach, there is a new machine out now that “allows the paralyzed to walk again” but as with everything a price tag that is just out of reach. Up until now I have been able to recycle the equipment that I have to buy the equipment that i need, but I have unfortunately reached a point where I need to ask for help once again.
Israeli Exoskeleton Suit Enables Paralyzed People To Walk $20,000, (a video can been
seen here LINK) with this machine I have the freedom to walk once again, with my continued physio and hydro, plus with the difference in the medical technology I’m more like a paraplegic than quadriplegic (as I’m ment to be classed as) any help reaching my target of $20,000 is greatly needed and very much appreciated
Yesterday i did 18miles on my leg bike, tomorrow i’ll be doing my legs then my arms.. some day’s (most day’s…) are like groundhog day! and i believe swimming with the hedgemumbly has caused an infection in my catheter site…..
LINK!
only my sessions with Steve twice a week (for 2 weeks), i will maintain hydro, my bike and trips out in the off road chair so plenty of exercise, starting tomorrow morning taking the dogs out for a walk, through the week i will concentrate on my bike.. now my thumbs moving (slightly) i am going to integrate the arm bike back into my routine - i need to be up and about again!
on the leg bike, 2 sessions - 18miles.. tomorrow i have no physio so i’m up early and off sailing, i’ll post more pic’s soon
today physio had to be cut short out of respect for a hedgemumbly who drowned in
the pool, i got in for a hydro session and i was swimming in a load of maggots and a very funky smell… and having my supra-pubic catheter as an open wound, i had to get out to disinfect as well as the whole unpleasantness of it
