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It's been more than a week since I got my new electric chair, and I feel I am embarking into a new chapter of life. I lost hand control twenty years ago and I got it back last week. Up until then, I operated an outmoded chair with a switch under my chin - and that was a long and tedious procedure.
However, the driver who once refered to himself in childhood as Street-Hawk is returned at long last. Yes - gaining control of one of your arms can be compared to an octopus regaining use of its tentacles - or more adequately - a bird finding power in its wings.
They have put me in slow gear. It's for a month's trial to see if I am capable. I have been moving around my flat and my bad garden. I have made it up to my shopping centre twice and went up the bridge to the DART station. I have had pain in my shoulder and wrist initially but it's gradually subsiding.
Over and out
JS
