putting things in perspective - first ride
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07-12-2010 | 03:22 PM
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putting things in perspective - first ride
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BOUNTIFUL -- Who says dreams don't come true? Not 26-year old Danny Salazar.
All his life, he wanted to ride on a motorcycle. However, because he's a ventilator dependent quadriplegic, he knew it was something he could never do on his own.
When one of his caregivers at South Davis Community Hospital in Bountiful heard about his wish recently, she started making phone calls.
Within an hour, Doug and Julie Rice of West ****** offered to make Salazar's wish come true.
The Rices have a motorcycle with an attached sidecar that has been retrofitted to be as handicap accessible as possible.
Friday morning, Salazar was helped into the sidecar, and they went for the ride of his life.
Salazar has been a patient at South Davis Community Hospital for 24 years and was accompanied on the ride with his respiratory therapist Zetta Michie.
Michie is the caregiver who arranged the ride.
They went about 20 miles from Bountiful to Farmington and back.
Even though the ride lasted less than an hour, staff members say Salazar's memory of this event will last a lifetime. "It was awesome," said Salazar, "It was such a blast!"
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good on the Rice's for making this guy's dream come true!
stories like this always bring my 'problems' back into perspective....
BOUNTIFUL -- Who says dreams don't come true? Not 26-year old Danny Salazar.
All his life, he wanted to ride on a motorcycle. However, because he's a ventilator dependent quadriplegic, he knew it was something he could never do on his own.
When one of his caregivers at South Davis Community Hospital in Bountiful heard about his wish recently, she started making phone calls.
Within an hour, Doug and Julie Rice of West ****** offered to make Salazar's wish come true.
The Rices have a motorcycle with an attached sidecar that has been retrofitted to be as handicap accessible as possible.
Friday morning, Salazar was helped into the sidecar, and they went for the ride of his life.
Salazar has been a patient at South Davis Community Hospital for 24 years and was accompanied on the ride with his respiratory therapist Zetta Michie.
Michie is the caregiver who arranged the ride.
They went about 20 miles from Bountiful to Farmington and back.
Even though the ride lasted less than an hour, staff members say Salazar's memory of this event will last a lifetime. "It was awesome," said Salazar, "It was such a blast!"
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good on the Rice's for making this guy's dream come true!
stories like this always bring my 'problems' back into perspective....
