Dan Sorkin is the founder of the Stumps ‘R Us amputee support group. We came across Dan last year, a few months after I was back up and about after my accident. The Stumps group are a light-hearted, fairly irreverent bunch of amputees and as part of the group’s charter, Dan, (who lost his left [...]
Kerry and I have taken up golf (some of you may laugh I know…I always said I’d never play golf since it’s a boring game)! Well we took our first lesson this morning with Dale Bradley from San Ramon Golf Club, a local public golf course. Neither Kerry or I have ever really played golf [...]
Kerry and I joined the Stumps ‘R Us crew for a tour of the San Francisco Giants baseball park that Dan Sorkin (the Stumps organizer) had arranged. We’re not big baseball fans per-se, but, it was a fine afternoon and seemed like fun to go look around the ball park. I highly recommend anyone take [...]
On our last day in Fiji Kerry and I took the opportunity to go diving, something I’d been wanting to do and hadn’t had the chance since my accident last year. I’ve been diving probably 17-18 years now, after learning at Exeter University back in the UK and becoming an instructor shortly thereafter. Now, I [...]
I meet with Stuart and Phil from TouchBionics today, they were over from Scotland for the 33rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium for the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists in San Francisco. It was great to meet them and learn more about the i-Limb myoelectric hand they have been developing, I’ve been following the [...]
