tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post111868544160455844..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Inside I'm DancingThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-44060987754121770692007-02-04T17:48:00.000+00:002007-02-04T17:48:00.000+00:00I've been in a chair nearly 21 years due to an SCI...I've been in a chair nearly 21 years due to an SCI, they taught me how to do wheelies to go up and down curbs in a wheelchair in rehab. After that I ran with it. I taught myself how to keep beat to the music balanced on two wheels. I can keep perfect beat with the person I'm dancing with while in a wheelie. Having a light wieght high performance wheelchair helps, I could not do it in a basic chair. It has also added greatly to my upper body strength.<br /><br />Anyways I've been going to nightclubs for over 18 years and over 700 times. It is great fun and people are generally in awe that I can make the chair dance. Complements include that I dance better than many able bodied people. It has allowed me to meet more people than I could even begin to count I also made hooks for the bottom of my shoes because I can spin so fast my legs will shoot straight out if not clipped to the footrest.<br /><br />I wish it was something I could teach someone. I'm thinking of going to my old rehap center to show new patients it can be done, of course that depends greatly on the nature of the disablity and a persons comfort level with the possiblity of flipping over. Has only happened twice when out dancing.<br /><br />Just thought I'd pass it alongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1118743856768919362005-06-14T11:10:00.000+01:002005-06-14T11:10:00.000+01:00Since using a wheelchair I've been barging my way ...Since using a wheelchair I've been barging my way onto dance floors in it and cultivating a from-the-waist-up wiggle. Whilst the fatigue and the alcohol extract a painful price, it passes, unlike the memory of the moment. Therapy? Shake that thing!Agent Fanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283954005767631627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1118708850113330312005-06-14T01:27:00.000+01:002005-06-14T01:27:00.000+01:00Ahh The Prodigy are great to dance to but I can't ...Ahh The Prodigy are great to dance to but I can't just listen to them...<BR/><BR/>Crappity crap about the muscles, I can empathise I feel that very same way (your description made a lightbulb go on in my head)...hence still p and awake (well definitely up, not sure about my mental capacity).<BR/><BR/>hope that it eases for you so you can get some shut eye soon!<BR/><BR/>Take care<BR/><BR/>KAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1118698029431370612005-06-13T22:27:00.000+01:002005-06-13T22:27:00.000+01:00I can sooooo relate. I sometimes think that ther...I can sooooo relate. I sometimes think that there is some sort of rule that anything that gives us pleasure is the first to go and the last to find any justification for.<BR/>I had thought that I would Never dance again, I had taken it for a given. Then on May 5th my cousin took my hand at his wedding and asked me to dance. At first I refused but damn,it was His wedding how could I say no? As it turns out I managed to dance and not fall flat on my face or break anything. People were smiling, but not to laugh at me, it was because I looked so happy. Don't give up dancing, it's worth the pain, even if most folks can't ever understand that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1118693095134958612005-06-13T21:04:00.000+01:002005-06-13T21:04:00.000+01:00Hi sweetie, It must be painful when your muscles a...Hi sweetie, It must be painful when your muscles ache through dancing, I am like you because that happens to me too especially when I'm dancing. You like a varied lot of books and music, I'm not sure about the Female Eunich though as I have read it.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02305216663591446183noreply@blogger.com