I’ve been super lazy getting my posts up (obviously) but there’s something I’m hoping someone reading this can help me with. A bunch of us from Project Walk are going to submit some sort of proposal to the Oprah show, hoping we can get on it. Seeing as Project Walk is much, more than traditional ‘physical therapy’ and the people who go there are much, much more than what you think of when you hear of people who are either ‘in', ‘confined', or ‘bound’ to wheelchairs, with their ‘traditional’ labels of gimp. cripple, or invalid, I have no doubt we’re going to get on the show. Much like Barack Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope and the man himself, who inspires people to dare to become more than what cultural mores of their time told them they could be, both Project Walk and the people who go have the ‘audacity’ to reject ‘labels’ and are daring to become more than what traditional medical mores of their time told them they could be. 

Project Walk is not ‘traditional physical therapy; it’s exercise therapy. My own doctor inadvertently validated the benefits of this the other day when he called me to discuss my latest blood test results. He said, “I don’t know what you’re doing, but keep doing it. You’re blood looks better than I’ve ever seen it. Your red blood cells went from being abnormal to the mid-range of normal.” He went on to explain a major function of the red blood cells is to carry oxygen to all the tissues from the lungs and then transport the carbon dioxide from the cells, breaking down the nutrients for assimilation. Red blood cells therefore are essential for healing, and since exercise stimulates bone production and bone is what’s responsible for red blood cell production (and the hip bone’s connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone’s connected to the collar bone, the collar bone’s connected to the…but forgive me, I digress. Not only do I digress, I’m constructing one wacked body…;-) All that to say: EXERCISE PRODUCES HEALING!  (Physical healing, that is. As for mental healing, one can only dream…;-)

As for how my sessions at Project Walk have been since my last post, they’ve been smashing, as usual. So again, I’d love it if anyone reading could help us make this happen. And I have some exiting news…anyone who can help us swing this just might get a free autograph! This would have to be from Oprah, of course. As for a free autograph from me, like I’ve said before; one can only but dream… ;-)