Back to Acadia swimming!

It is kind of unreal

to put another update so quickly!

We have too much to show

at once, and nothing for a while!

But I thought it will be

interesting to show the improvements

Charb is making now,

after his injury had healed!

NB: Check the photo album, too!

Happy Easter!

Hoping you all had a Great Easter!


Getting ready for Easter Bunny did not stop Charb
from exercising really hard!
He started to lift himself off the chair,



making it easier to move him around,

sit him on the sofa,


stand him by the sink
to do the dishes... ( Norma said I wish!)



or grab the walker trying to take a step...

Be ready for another visit from Ed....

and WALK two tiny steps!

A lesson in Marshal Arts!

Passionate about Bodybuilding since young age,

working intesively to be himself "a lean fighting machine",

Charb is always fascinated by fit, strong, muscular people!

He loves Marshall Arts and Ed is his "above all fighter",

"absolutly phenominal"!

They met in the store long before the accident, and now

whenever Ed can spare sometime he visits Charb, inspires him,

" fires him up!" as Charb likes to say!

Our sincere thanks, Ed!

We wish you had more time, like every day sort of,

and Charb will soon be back on his feet,

"lean, mean, fighting machine!"

Almost 2 months went by without a real update!
And yet so many things did happen!
But that is the story of our life, isn't it?
To wonder where the days, weeks, months all go
so fast! Very seldom we grab the present moment with two hands
and take advantage of every second! The rest of the time we cry
the time gone by, and project ourselves in the future!

Do I have an excuse now?
According to Charb, no, not at all!
"But Charb, you promised to start writing your own journal,
updating your own blog by yourself!
_ No, sorry man, I never did!"

I will be working on that part next few weeks,
since Charb is coming almost daily to the store!

He still spends some nights upstairs, some others
in his apartment next door, and enough hours in the store.
He loves coming there to meet customer and interact
with them... The few he still remember from before,
he talks to them for long periods and does not want
them to leave!
You hear them laughing to his sharp
remarks and lightning answers!
"God, he is getting so sharp!"

Sharp, he is!
I should sometime soon write few of his
funniest sayings!

So now, and after a long setback, we are trying again

to have the feet and legs moving! He lost a lot of strength

after the operation and the recovery period ( from Nov08

till the end of January 09).

Again we are dedicated to push him as hard

and as consistently as we can!

We know he will make it!

Charb showing Graham what he is up to!


" Charb, lets stand up, now
- Wait till a customer shows up!"
When he does and you ask him to stand again,
he wants to wait to show another customer!
"Preferably a girl" he says!


Charb is back swimming at
Acadia, thanks to Blair and Rhys
who help him swim
and walk in the pool, and to Justin
driving him back and forth!




Charb's 2 "heroes" visiting & helping him stand tall!

NOTE:
A million thanks to all of you who still check the blog
and write a note in the guestbook! I wish you leave
your email address so we can write back!
Special thanks to Dorcas! Yes, we will be waiting to
see you this summer!
And to Maggie Jacklone! We love to write back but we
have no address!

February went by too quickly, with all the bad weather,
and Charb was stuck upstairs for most of the time.
"Stuck" may not be the word because
he was happy with people around him,
catering to all his needs 24/7...

He made couple appearances in the store
and was delighted to meet with customers and friends.

But sadly, his grandparents did leave to Calgary,
which created an emptiness in his long days!
They were around for hours and hours
talking to him, pushing him to get better,
promising him trips to everywhere,
and talking on the phone to people in
the four corners of the Globe!


And most of all,
gramma was cooking all the good stuff!
Oh! Yummy!
Especially her rice pudding, the Lebanese way,
something to die for! and Charb would push himself
to the extreme to get " just one more spoon of it!"


Charb trying to stand up with Norma's help
and Grandparents encouragement!

Real world and fake one..

Charb is still living ( home)
in the apartment upstairs!
He is comfortable, and every one
is... Nice to be altogether under the
same roof!
Grandparents still here, and they are
spoiling him rotten!
But that is what Grandparents are for!

I wanted to post some photos from the olden
days, and some new ones; some in the
long road to recovery ( the stage at
which he is now);
and what triggered that was his defensive
even aggressive stance of dividing his life
not as BEFORE and AFTER,
but as Real World -before_
and Fake World- now-
where everything
and everybody
is a mere copy, a clone, of the real...

We try different approaches to the subject,
but he gets so angry, so agitated, so aggressive
we decided not to contradict him anymore.

Here are some of his own words:

There are more than 2 planet earth.
This is not the real one.
I know it's not.

Nothing is the same as my old planet.
I mean it, NOTHING.
-Do you think you have changed
because of your brain injury,
and the planet has stayed the same?

- You are dead wrong, Chicky-pee! (Laugh)
I can't wait to prove you wrong.

- How are you going to prove it to me?
- By bringing you into the real planet.
It's real. I'm telling you the truth.
If you care for me, you will listen.

-I do care, that is why I talk about the truth.
_ When it comes down to it, honey,
it ain't the truth!
Put it in your thick head:
You are a clone! Every thing is a clone.



_ What happens in the other world?
_ Things are funnier in a different way.
I feel more joy in the other world
because I know the people are real.


_So I am not real right now!what am I than?
- A fake human.A copy of the real one.

_ So everything before the accident is real
and everything after is fake?

_ Yes .
I have heard enough out of you!
I know you don't believe me,
but what I say is the truth!
Every thing is fake here.
Mom & dad are copies, clones.
They don't know that but I know.
...My real parents live in a different planet!

Check the Photo album for some new pics....

Happy New Year!

Little late to post our best wishes to all,
engulfed as we were in bad weather...
and other activities! Better late than never,
they say!

Since he came "HOME" to the
upstairs apartment,
he was ".. so happy!"










Few friends visited him, and that
made his day!











...Than there was a party!
Thanks to our friends who came to play
and sing, Charb had a great fun!