Our Trip to ABR…
May 28, 2010 | Updates
We took a whirlwind trip to ABR in April. We caught the red eye flight (11:45 pm) from Salt Lake to Burlington, VT on a Friday evening. We arrived in Burlington about 11 am on Saturday. Then we rented a car and drove 3 hours to Montreal. We got there just in time to check into our hotel and take a quick nap before meeting with Leonid for Samuel’s evaluation at 8 pm that night. Whew!
The evaluation was good. Leonid saw a lot of good changes in Samuel that were encouraging. It always helps to have the evaluations because it tends to give me a good push to keep doing what we’re doing!
Sunday and Monday brought 3 hour training sessions where we were trained by Leonid himself (the inventor of ABR). What a treat! Listening to him talk always intrigues me as he is so knowledgeable about the body. We learned the new ball rolling technique and some ”old-style” exercises as well. The only down side was there was just too much information to fit into the 2 training sessions that we had so we were really rushed in the end.
Tuesday morning, we drove back to Burlington, VT and flew home - getting here about 11 pm. The trip was completely draining for me, but it was nice not to be gone for very long. Samuel did fine the entire time and slept on the red eye flight so I don’t think he suffered much on the trip. The only real excitement we had was the guy in the Burlington airport who claimed he “accidentally” forgot that he had 3 POCKET KNIVES in his carry on bag! What the?!! He was on our flight, of course. And the plane was so very, very tiny. We all had our plans mapped out of how we’d take him down if he tried anything funny :)! Luckily, the flight was uneventful.
We also had several flights where we walked right out to the plane and had to carry Samuel up the steps to get in. Quite the production, really. But I guess we chose an airport with not much traffic and, thus, smaller planes. And we only had a fe instances of extreme handicapped inaccessibility while in Montreal - one being the lady who told me I couldn’t take food from the breakfast buffet back to my room (where Tom was waiting - and starving - with Samuel). So, I went back upstairs…
got Samuel…
hauled him up a small flight of stairs to the buffet room…
ate my breakfast…
and then asked that same lady if she had any suggestions of how to get back since the room is completely inaccessible to those in wheelchairs.
The dropped jaw and lack of words on her part told me I’d made my point.
Otherwise, great trip…FINALLY! And again, what a treat to have Leonid train us himself!
Here’s to hoping we get a bunch of ABR hours in over the next 6 months and see even more great changes in Samuel!
Teresa
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