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What Elite Fitness means... Please read this!
Please take a minute to read this. I am posting this with the persmission of Needto and am asking that it not be removed.
As a homecare nurse, I see many different patients. There is one I want to tell you about. He is a 19-year old who was paralyzed when the vehicle he was in was hit by a drunk driver on Prom night. Everyone else in the car died. He is unable to do anything except move his head very slightly. We, (his parents, myself, theraphy) had been having many problems with him cooperating - his depression was so great, he didn't want anything and he didn't want to do anything.
One visit 2 weeks ago he asked me how I lost weight (his speech is very slow and hard to understand from the brain damage he has suffered) so I told him I belong to an exercise, bodybuilding site called Elite Fitness. We took out his computer and I brought the site up for him to see. He looked, asked ALOT of questions, and seemed like a little boy in a candy store. I asked him what he thought about EF and his response was not in words but
through gestures of happiness. I look around his room, full of pictures of himself with his baseball cap turned sideways and tons of CD's not being played. That day when I left his goals were to select a screen name & find an avatar. (each week we set goals that we hope he will meet at our next visit).
He is still deciding what his screen name will be and is selecting an avatar but the change in him has been remarkable. His parents are overjoyed with his zeal to get on the computer (using a stick placed in his mouth) he looks for his avatar. I visited him today and walked in to see him with his baseball cap on sideways and music playing - a huge smile on his face. A huge smile on his parent's faces.
The whole point of this story is to tell you how much life EF has given to this young man. It has given him goals to reach that are fun and are reachable. I spend extra time with him showing him how he can ask a question and get alot of responses, or just read what everyone else is posting, and with March Madness - he is crazy about this site.
We all come to Elite for our own reasons but for this young man Elite has been the start of a new life for him. It has given him hope, it has him excited about the hopes of making new friends and most of all it has helped him face each day with a smile on his face. If only I could tell you where I've seen him at and where he is now - Elite Fitness has changed this family's life.
As soon as we have him set-up I hope you will welcome him as a part of the EF family. I've told a few members previously about him and I doubt his family will have to buy a Plat membership or K for him - these members have been kind enough to offer to do that for him! Great people!
Thanks so much for listening and for allowing myself and my patient to a part of the Elite Fitness family.
Peace,
deb
Please take a minute to read this. I am posting this with the persmission of Needto and am asking that it not be removed.
As a homecare nurse, I see many different patients. There is one I want to tell you about. He is a 19-year old who was paralyzed when the vehicle he was in was hit by a drunk driver on Prom night. Everyone else in the car died. He is unable to do anything except move his head very slightly. We, (his parents, myself, theraphy) had been having many problems with him cooperating - his depression was so great, he didn't want anything and he didn't want to do anything.
One visit 2 weeks ago he asked me how I lost weight (his speech is very slow and hard to understand from the brain damage he has suffered) so I told him I belong to an exercise, bodybuilding site called Elite Fitness. We took out his computer and I brought the site up for him to see. He looked, asked ALOT of questions, and seemed like a little boy in a candy store. I asked him what he thought about EF and his response was not in words but
through gestures of happiness. I look around his room, full of pictures of himself with his baseball cap turned sideways and tons of CD's not being played. That day when I left his goals were to select a screen name & find an avatar. (each week we set goals that we hope he will meet at our next visit).
He is still deciding what his screen name will be and is selecting an avatar but the change in him has been remarkable. His parents are overjoyed with his zeal to get on the computer (using a stick placed in his mouth) he looks for his avatar. I visited him today and walked in to see him with his baseball cap on sideways and music playing - a huge smile on his face. A huge smile on his parent's faces.
The whole point of this story is to tell you how much life EF has given to this young man. It has given him goals to reach that are fun and are reachable. I spend extra time with him showing him how he can ask a question and get alot of responses, or just read what everyone else is posting, and with March Madness - he is crazy about this site.
We all come to Elite for our own reasons but for this young man Elite has been the start of a new life for him. It has given him hope, it has him excited about the hopes of making new friends and most of all it has helped him face each day with a smile on his face. If only I could tell you where I've seen him at and where he is now - Elite Fitness has changed this family's life.
As soon as we have him set-up I hope you will welcome him as a part of the EF family. I've told a few members previously about him and I doubt his family will have to buy a Plat membership or K for him - these members have been kind enough to offer to do that for him! Great people!
Thanks so much for listening and for allowing myself and my patient to a part of the Elite Fitness family.
Peace,
deb
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