Brandon Perrault ~ Shepherd Center 3/10 Update 2nd Video

We flew to Shepherd Center in Atlanta, GA to see Brandon 3/6/08 – 3/10/08. On Friday, 3/7, he was discharged from the Shepherd Center hospital and moved into a Shepherd Center apartment where he will live with 24 nurse-care and attend their Day Program from 9 am to 4 pm. Jocelyn, Ethan and I toured the Day Program gym and there are three pieces of equipment in particular Brandon is longing to use. All locomotor treadmills. We actually saw a young man with the robotic braces attached to his legs walking the treadmill while we were there, with assistance from therapists who moved one leg, then the other leg, for him. Brandon’s spirits are good. He will need to board the Shepherd bus each morning at 8 am in order to get to his program. When I rode the bus home with him the first day, there were seven people in wheelchairs all chained and harnessed in, going to the same 12-unit apartment building. Brandon is responsible for his own food while he’s there and we are exploring the MARTA which has a bus that will pick up individuals such as Brandon for .50 and take them where they need to go as long as the perimeters are within the bus line. Brandon will need this service because his apartment is on a very steep and long hill. The manual wheelchair he is in now to help him develop strength would be very dangerous on this hill. Ethan, Jocey and I went up the hill to the grocery store and we lost our cart coming down it. Not good. I was very impressed with Brandon’s appearance …
Video Rating: 4 / 5