{"id":291,"date":"2010-12-26T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2010-12-26T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:53:08","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/26\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hope everyone was able to enjoy the holiday break, and “Merry Christmas!”, for folks that celebrate it.<\/p>\n

We bundled my brother up on Christmas morning, wheeled him a 1\/2 mile or so over to my apartment complex, and carried him up to the third floor in his wheelchair, so we could all be together for the day.\u00a0 It was truly wonderful to have him home.<\/p>\n

The nursing home provided all the medication and food in advance, to extend the amount of time Chris could stay in the apartment.\u00a0 I think we managed 10am-7pm.\u00a0 I put on a game of NCAA 2006 on the Playstation out of tradition – Chris would always kick my arse at this game when he was over at my aparment!\u00a0 My mom made a fantastic Christmas dinner.\u00a0 We were even able to lay Chris down in a real bed<\/strong> for his afternoon nap.\u00a0 He didn’t have a single episode of sweating or anything the entire time (although the afternoon anti-spasticity medication knocked him out while we were opening gifts).<\/p>\n

It has been a long seven months since the motorcycle accident, with lots of ups and downs along the way.\u00a0 Christmas Day was one of the “ups”.<\/p>\n

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Showing Chris some NCAA Football on the Playstation, out of tradition<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mike and Chris playing a game of NCAA Football against each other back in 2009...<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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