My Birthday Outing Pics
My Birthday was August 9th
I had sprained my wrist on Aug 7, it’s my right wrist which is the only part of my body that works 90% correctly. Well anyhow…the plans I had for a free trip out were pretty much shot. I couldn’t use my scooter, walker or wheelchair. I was telling a friend what was going on. I was really depressed as Amy and managed to get my birthday off, we rarely have her home to any holiday, let alone a birthday. Finally by friend got hold of me and asked if Amy would be able to push me in the wheelchair on pavement…yeah…I guess she could, but we can’t do any kind of free outing and have her pushing me all day. It would be no fun for either of us. I HATE, being pushed and I know it’s a wear and tear on her body and that would bother me the whole time. Well my friend didn’t have that idea in mind, she had remembered quite a while back when another friend had wanted Amy and I to have a dinner out and she funded an evening for us to go out to dinner and coffee…we had taken pics of that night. Lori wanted to give Amy and I that same night for my birthday since it wouldn’t require me to propel my own chair and Amy wouldn’t be pushing me very far.
So….My friend Lori send me a birthday gift along with this note, that was for Amy:
DO NOT LET HER worm out of this! Get dressed. Make plans. Get the hell out of there for a little while. 
. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKY! YOU helped me enjoy our wedding anniversary by taking loading those pics off my mind. Now stop arguing and say thanks. . We love ya’ll!
LOL…so Amy promised her cell pics as proof…here was my day:
First we made a trip to a chair accessible part of the Savannah River in SC. I was able to just roll down the hill to the shore, later she was able to bring the truck close enough so I only had to take a few steps to get into the truck so that worked out perfectly.
Course Amy got in and waded…we make it a practice to clean up places we visit, so she was pulling trash out of the water.
We headed out a beautiful scenic dirt road back to town:
Ran outta battery juice so I didn’t get pics at the buffet…but we did go out to dinner and the cell stayed charging in the truck. Next we got our rare treat of Starbucks coffee!!! Now THAT is a Birthday Gift!!
Uh…excuse us…we are goofing around in Starbucks
She stole my whipped cream! Can you believe that! She told them it was my B-day they gave me a size larger and charged us for the regular size and they loaded me up with whipped cream and all that gooey terribly bad for you dark chocolate syrup..and she just reaches over and grabs a fingerful!
I came home to tons of happy birthday wishes on FaceBook and that brought tears. It’s so nice to know you are thought of and remembered. I know some of my FaceBook friends are here….Thank you friends, it really did mean a lot to me.
Since I couldn’t make it to Allendale SC to view the Topper Archaeological dig site like we had hoped, we will plan that as another outing sometime next month, but today was special and perfect…couldn’t ask for better friends & family who made it all happen.
December 31st, 2009 at 1:00 am
[...] Lori started asking me if there were things I could do that wouldn’t require much wheeling. Well….not really. All the nature things that are free would be too hard to do with a bum wrist and most of the time we don’t have money for fun things. Lori recalled earlier in the year when another friend had sent Amy and I off to dinner and Starbucks. The next day she surprised me and Amy with some birthday cash so we could go to dinner and Starbucks. While also trying to figure out things to do one of Amy’s friends John told us about an easy access boat landing on the Savannah River and he thought I might be able to easily get my chair right to the water. We decided to check it out and sure enough I was able to dip my toes in the river, we then went off to Dinner and Starbucks for my birthday [...]