![]() Getting everything ready for the big night, Friday July 15, 1994,when Dempsey is supposed to be killed Nick & Gail get the surprise of their life. The two would both get double the amount and that would also take care of his and Gail's son Damnon, Blake Foster,college and financial future. Putting on an act that he was despondent with his life as a paraplegic Dempsey get's both Nick and Gail to go along with a plan where he's killed, by them, in a burglary and having insured himself for $1,000,000.00 with a double indemnity clause, excluding suicide. Dempsey realized that Nick was having an affair with his wife at the time that the young cop was shot and killed and that illicit affair had been going on for some time. Checking Nick's phone bill Dempsey found out that he called his answering service from his, Dempsey's, home at 2:30 AM. Dempsey then concocted a devious and sinister plan to make them both pay for what they did to him with their lives. Taking the blame himself for it saying that the noisy beeper was his not Nick's Dempsey forgave his brother for his career ending injuries but not for his sleeping with his wife. At the inquest following the shooting Dempsey covered up the fact that his brother's incompetence, leaving his beeper on, was responsible for the shootout. The resulting shootout ends with Dempsey getting shot in the spine and ending up crippled from the waist down. Cain, track down the cop killers in a hotel room and just when their about to make the pinch Nick's beeper goes off, alerting the fugitives. It turned that Nick was at Dempsey's house having an sexual tryst with his cheating and unfaithful wife Gail, Kim Cattrail. One evening at a police shooting, the cop ended up dead, Dempsey calls Nick on his personal beeper and gets no answer. Nick also a member of the San Sebastian police department like Dempsey is a total failure when compared to his older brother. Learn more about him at .***SPOILERS*** Being highly successful in everything that he did, from the top of his class in collage a top Jet pilot and law enforcement officer, Dempsey Cain, Christopher Reeve,is the exact opposite of his younger brother Nick, Edward Kerr. In 2007, Gary was inducted into the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame as a disability educator. speaking at universities and rehab centers under the sponsorship of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center. Gary Karp is an author and speaker whose goal is to enlighten society to the radical changes that have taken place in what he calls “Modern Disability.” A wheelchair user following a spinal cord injury he incurred in 1973 at the age of 18, Gary has produced four books, written extensively as a disability journalist, and speaks to a wide array of audiences, including, business, government, and associations, where he is remembered for his passion, clarity, and humor as well as his dazzling juggling skills! Since 2003 Gary has traveled the U.S. Sometimes we get frustrated with uneven surfaces. Here’s why it’s important: As full time wheelers we waste energy, or worse, injure our shoulders and back because we try to maintain a consistent speed, or always travel in a straight line. Wheeling your chair can be a kind of meditation, or what I call “Zen Wheeling.” Meditation is the practice of being in the present, not carried off by thoughts of the past and future. Here’s my technique for loading my chair into my car. I use a rigid frame wheelchair, and I drive a two door car. So I’m going to teach you the fine points of curb jumping. And there are plenty of situations where we encounter single steps in the world. If you start from a standstill, then you’re putting a lot of force on your shoulders to get going.īut if you have some momentum as you approach it, then you’ll never have to exert yourself as much, and you’ll be up the ramp with fewer pushes.Ĭurb cuts are pretty much everywhere now, but once in a while only one side of the street has one, or they put it in a place where you have to go out of your way to get to it. One of the most useful techniques to protect yourself is to use momentum whenever you can. Just don’t get up too much speed – that’s when you’ll lose control.Īs a full-time wheeler, your arms and shoulders are always at risk of overuse and overstrain. It means you’ll be wheeling in a zig zag path.īut since most sidewalks are sloped, you can choose a path where you’re mostly pushing on the downhill wheel so you won’t have to switch hands so much. Generally, you that you should always use both your hands when you’re wheeling your chair.īut in the real world, there are times when you’ve only got one hand free, like when you need to carry Vanilla Latte like this one here. ![]()
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