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Blog: Spend the day in a wheelchair

Today has been the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life! Spending a day in a wheelchair has pushed the limits of frustration that I thought I could handle off the scale. This challenge was inspired by my colleague Donna who is in a wheelchair and has to go through huge challenges everyday. I wanted to get an appreciation and see life through her eyes.

Donna set me 5 challenges to be completed by the end of the day.
1. Go to the toilet.
2. Cross a challenging intersection.
3. Go through a supermarket.
4. Get something out of our store room at work.
5. Get a coffee from the cafe and bring it back to my office.

I am pleased to announce I completed 4 out of 5, I couldn't get anything out of the storeroom (I'm thinking this was the point Donna was trying to make, thanks Donna the marketing team will get that store room into shape).

I thought the past 20 days have been challenging, everything fails in comparison to trying to go to the toilet when you can't walk. I promise you that today I fully made sure I could not use my legs because that would be cheating and I wouldn't get the same experience. It's 8pm and I'm still in the chair! A day in a wheelchair, that's 24 hours!

I now have an appreciation for the things I take for granted. I'm at home I'm frustrated, I'm tired, I'm sore from the chair and I'm thinking I'm a bit sad complaining when people like Donna have to do what I did today everyday! Days like today really make you think about the things we take for granted.

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  1. i am the other jackie. thanks for the autograph. i have watched all ur challenges and just think you have alot of guts. the wheelchair one made me more aware of what wheelchair bound people have to put up with in every day situations.
    jackie, nelson
  2. Hi Grant. I am very proud of the way you handle yourself in the wheelchair. Liking that the storeroom will be sorted too. Hope your butt wasn't too sore from sitting all day. D
    Donna, Nelson
  3. Awesome Grant - we all need to be aware of the things we take for granted - but generally we don't! You have - and in so doing have made us all so much more aware! Am sure that Donna - and others in similar situations - appreciate it - and hope that others, like me, who aren't, will take note & consider differently going forward! Go Grant Go!
    Anne, Wellington