I was wasting time on Facebook earlier today and I saw this reel and it brought back a flood of memories and I started to laugh! Let me explain:
I think it was 2014 and just before Adam left. Adam was my trainer at Barwis and they procured a, “Stander.” Adam and I worked together to get me to a point where I would be able to stand in it. I think the goal was ten minutes.
Adam would transfer me into the stander and then there was a crank attached to it and each time he cranked it, I would stand up straighter. I think that I had been wheelchair-bound at that point for a decade so cranking it and forcing my body to stand up straighter did not feel very good at all!!!
I was determined and I understood that I needed to breathe through the pain and not resist it. I have always liked the movie TheCount of Monte Cristo and I remember this speech and I would breathe each time he cranked the ‘stander’ I would yell, “Do your worst!” It got progressively harder the closer I got to being fully standing and once he was done cranking it, I would say, “Do your worst… for I will do mine!”
I don’t know if Adam ever saw that movie but thinking about it now, it’s definitely worth a rewatch for me!!!: