Visitation at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg, Pa
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Visitation at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg, Pa
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 Sean Brame, a big-time celebrity, took time out of his extremely busy schedule of testifying in front of congress and hot-tubbing it with the Obama girls to slum it with the riders today. It was awesome to get to catch up with what all this guy has been doing (and his mom is pretty darn cool, too) and we know he will continue to be an outstanding young man! |
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 Beth
ran interference for us today and made sure that we arrived safely. It’s
always nice to know that someone was around just in case Doc went into
coffee withdrawals, Joe shrunk another half-inch, or AJ needed an emergency
visit to the nearest nail salon. |
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 Greg
Toot, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg CEO, welcomes the
riders into the facility and reminds them that he’s installed 46
super-top-secret video cameras in various undisclosed locations to monitor
the riders activity and to make sure that Joe wouldn’t horrify the patients
with his terrible Abel impressions. |
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 Doc
and Beth watch the video that was put together just for our arrival.
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Mechanicsburg went above and beyond
to welcome us and show their appreciation for our visit! We only hope that
we lived up to their high expectations and that they enjoyed the visit as
much as we did! |
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 AJ
makes her last speech as Superwoman. As the story goes, the cape has been
handed down from one Superwoman to another. It came to AJ via Superwoman
April Hammet back in Macon. April told AJ that she’d know when the time was
right to pass the cape to the next Superwoman and today was definitely the
day. |
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AJ makes a short speech
and then asks Jan, a Superwoman battling cancer with all she’s got, to come
forward and accept the cape. Jan was surprised but nobody else was. The
strength and determination she shows just by living every day is
awe-inspiring. She is, truly, a SUPER WOMAN! |
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 Mary
(right) and Martha (left) got all gussied up today in anticipation of Joe
and Doc’s arrival. They were very disappointed, however, when they had to
suffer through listening to AJ talk southern at them.
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 Beth,
ever the little panhandler, brings her can around to all the patients today
trying to drum up some money so she can get the road sludge off her Harley’s
whitewall tires when she gets home. |
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 Doc’s
uses his body weight to offer a little resistance as Carolyn builds her abs
of steel by doing countless sit-ups. |
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 Sarah
lit up the room with her spunk and feisty demeanor! With some GREAT
therapists beside her and her other half, she makes more and more progress
every day. We are optimistic that she’ll get back to life as usual very soon
and think she’s going to inspire numerous others!
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| Our thanks to Greg Toot, CEO and Kenyon College Booster Club member, and his merry band of Marketing specialists, Catherine Middleton and Dennis Mahafee, his wonderful staff, and inspired and dedicated patients who are working so hard with the help of HealthSouth to return to living active lives. We thank one and all for the fun that we shared and for allowing us to participate in the rehabilitation process, if only for one day. It was our pleasure to spend the time with you, watching the love of healing displayed by a truly dedicated bunch of care givers. |
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