About
Hi,
My name is Kenny. I am thirty three years old and have been in a wheelchair for the past twenty-two years of my life. Up until the age of eleven, I lived a very normal happy and healthy life, with no mobility obstacles to face.
At the age of eleven, I suffered from a massive cerebral hemorrhage, caused by a ruptured AVM (Arterial Venous Malformation) in my brain. It is like a time bomb that I never knew I had exploded in my brain. I was in a coma for eight months. When I woke up, I found my life had totally changed. I could not move my left side, my speech was very slurred, I was legally blind, and I fully depended on a wheelchair for all mobility.
I am now living a very full and exciting life in my new home in the community with my friend, Josh. Community Systems Inc. (CSI) provides us with the wonderful residential supports which are funded by DMR. We have very devoted, caring staff members who help us with some of our everyday needs.
I enjoy life! I especially enjoy traveling daily to many wonderful places in the community and especially look forward to an annual vacation.
We in WHEELCHAIRS face many obstacles when traveling in the community. Too often, public places are not fully wheelchair accessible as they claim to be and too often many of us in wheelchairs have only been disappointed in the lack of accessibility of many public places.
My family, staff and I decided to set up this web page, in hope that we will help all other people in wheelchairs realize which places are fully accessible and which are not. We don’t want others in wheelchairs to go to the public places which are not fully accessible, only to find themselves very disappointed.
We will write short reviews of the wheelchair accessibility of the places that we visit. We will also rate the wheelchair accessibility by using a Star rating. Five Stars ***** means that the place is fully handicap accessible. If the place does not receive five stars, then we will write some suggestions of how those places can improve on accessibility in order to earn five stars.
We hope that this web site will help all of the other citizens in wheelchairs. We also hope it will help the public realize how very important it is for all citizens to have full access to all public places!
Kenny and Company
