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---------- > Fra: George Larsen <[log in to unmask]> > Til: Parkinson's Information Exchange <[log in to unmask]> > Emne: Sv: Tell me I'm wrong > Dato: 10. september 1998 23:20 > > I knew that i's a chock to recive the first weelchair, but after a while it > can be a great help bouth for the PWP and for the CG. > > Here in Denmark a weelchair isn't owned by a person but by the community > and the user borrows it as long as it is nessesary. > > I will try to translate a poem that Bodil wrote when her first weelchair > broke down and she had to get a new one. > > My faithfull Crosser. > > Good-bye my safe faithfull friend, > my faithfull servant, who allways took my home. > I got you in 1986, you were electric, had 3 weels and gear. > We have trevelled together in Europe, > had meetings and lectures in Denmark. > Instructed caregivers all over Funen. > You were big and heavy and very noising. > When I got you, you wasn't quite new, > but big and havey and noising like lead. > In june 92 you thought, it could be enaugh. > You threw oil and went quite amuck. > What a chock when I the oil in the car saw, > soon we were going on vacation, how should it be managed? > Ah you were tired, wearn out and would like to go home. > A new Crosser came, but it wasn't you. > GOOD-BYE MY OLD FAITHFULL FRIEND!!! > > Hope you all will be as happy for the help a weelchair is as Bodil became, > and don't forget it is a very good way to make contact with children. > > Georg, CG for Bodil 54/18 > >