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Lorraine, too funny that you say that about the ramps. We have two cars that can fit the power wheelchair but the darn ramps won't fit in the car at the same time. I can't stand the power chair anyway, so no big loss. One of my friends with no legs says he actually prefers the manual chair to the power chair anyway because the power chair is just generally a pain to manuever.
I totally agree that you find other family things to do and you just adjust your life to fit the circumstances but every once in a while you do look back and realize how much you have changed because of some very basic limits your child has.
On the other hand, there are a lot of great things you would never experience with a typical child. We are all going to learn to ski because there is a resort with disabled skiing reasonably close. We have a certain amount of local fame because of my DD and get invited to fancy things with bigwigs that we would not otherwise be included in. Short (or no) lines at Disney for the whole family (which makes it easy to just go on a whim). ANd my husbands favorite. . .front row basketball seats where they would normally run 10K a season.
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