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What Elite Fitness means... Please read this!!
What Elite Fitness means...
Please take a minute to read this. I am posting this with the permission of Needto and ask that it not be removed.
As a homecare nurse, I see many different patients. There is one I want you all to know about. He is a 19-year old who was paralyzed when the vehicle he was in was hit by a drunk driver on Prom night. Everyone else in the car died. He is unable to do anything except move his head very slightly. We (his parents, myself, therapists) had been having many problems with him cooperating - his depression was so great he didn't want anything or to do anything.
One visit 2 weeks ago he asked me how I lost weight (his speech is very slurred and hard to understand from the brain damage he has suffered) so I told him I belong to an exercise, bodybuilding site called Elite Fitness. We took out his computer and I brought the site up for him to see. He looked and looked, asked ALOT of questions, and seemed like a little boy in a candy store. I asked him what he thought about EF and his response was not in words but with gestures of happiness. I look around his room, full of pictures of himself with a baseball cap on sideways and tons of CD's not being played. That day when I left his goals were to select an avatar and a screen name. (each week we pick goals, at least 2, for him to reach by my next visit)
He is still deciding what his screen name will be and is selecting an avatar but the change in him has been remarkable. His parents are overjoyed with his zeal to get on the computer (using a stick placed in his mouth) he looks for his avatar. I visited him today and walked in to see him with his baseball cap on sideways and music playing - a huge smile on his face. A huge smile on his parent's faces!
The whole point of this story is to tell all of you how much life EF has given to this young man. It has given him goals to reach that are fun and reachable. I spend extra time with him showing him how he can ask a question and get alot of responses, or just read what everyone else is posting, and with March Madness - he is crazy about this site.
We all come to Elite for our own reasons but for this young man Elite has been the start of a new life for him. It has given him hope, it has him excited about the hopes of making new friends and most of all it has helped him face each day with a smile on his face. I wish I could tell you where I've seen him at and where he is at now - Elite Fitness has changed this family's life.
As soon as we have him set-up I hope you will all welcome him as a part of the EF family. I've told a few members previously about him and I doubt his family will have to buy him a Plat membership or K - these members have been kind enough to offer to do that for him. Great people!!
Thanks so much for listening and for allowing myself and my patient to be a part of the Elite Fitness family.
Peace,
deb
What Elite Fitness means...
Please take a minute to read this. I am posting this with the permission of Needto and ask that it not be removed.
As a homecare nurse, I see many different patients. There is one I want you all to know about. He is a 19-year old who was paralyzed when the vehicle he was in was hit by a drunk driver on Prom night. Everyone else in the car died. He is unable to do anything except move his head very slightly. We (his parents, myself, therapists) had been having many problems with him cooperating - his depression was so great he didn't want anything or to do anything.
One visit 2 weeks ago he asked me how I lost weight (his speech is very slurred and hard to understand from the brain damage he has suffered) so I told him I belong to an exercise, bodybuilding site called Elite Fitness. We took out his computer and I brought the site up for him to see. He looked and looked, asked ALOT of questions, and seemed like a little boy in a candy store. I asked him what he thought about EF and his response was not in words but with gestures of happiness. I look around his room, full of pictures of himself with a baseball cap on sideways and tons of CD's not being played. That day when I left his goals were to select an avatar and a screen name. (each week we pick goals, at least 2, for him to reach by my next visit)
He is still deciding what his screen name will be and is selecting an avatar but the change in him has been remarkable. His parents are overjoyed with his zeal to get on the computer (using a stick placed in his mouth) he looks for his avatar. I visited him today and walked in to see him with his baseball cap on sideways and music playing - a huge smile on his face. A huge smile on his parent's faces!
The whole point of this story is to tell all of you how much life EF has given to this young man. It has given him goals to reach that are fun and reachable. I spend extra time with him showing him how he can ask a question and get alot of responses, or just read what everyone else is posting, and with March Madness - he is crazy about this site.
We all come to Elite for our own reasons but for this young man Elite has been the start of a new life for him. It has given him hope, it has him excited about the hopes of making new friends and most of all it has helped him face each day with a smile on his face. I wish I could tell you where I've seen him at and where he is at now - Elite Fitness has changed this family's life.
As soon as we have him set-up I hope you will all welcome him as a part of the EF family. I've told a few members previously about him and I doubt his family will have to buy him a Plat membership or K - these members have been kind enough to offer to do that for him. Great people!!
Thanks so much for listening and for allowing myself and my patient to be a part of the Elite Fitness family.
Peace,
deb
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