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Less than a month after his injury, Brandon, who had played roller blade hockey for years, was introduced to sled hockey by his physical therapist, Kathy Griffith cheap air yeezy. Invented at a rehabilitation center in Sweden in the 1960's, sled hockey became a Paralympic sport in the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer. Players sit in specially designed sleds placed on top of two hockey skate blades, and the puck must be passed underneath the sled australian luxe boots for sale. After watching the U. S. Paralympic team play a game, Brandon met several of the players, and was deeply moved by the experience Luxe boots cheap. "It was there that I created a new cast of heroes," he says. "Here was a bunch of guys that have all overcome horrible injuries of their own, and went on to play for their country and win a gold medal in Salt Lake City at the 2002 Paralympics lebron shoes for sale." Once he was cleared by his doctors, Brandon played one season for a team called the RIC Blackhawks before being invited to the U. S. Team tryouts this past August in Colorado Springs. After five days of tryouts, he made the team as a goaltender. But other challenges lay ahead. When Brandon discovered that his boys were being ridiculed at school because of his wheelchair, he realized how important it was to show others that disabled people could lead productive lives. He began speaking at grade schools, demonstrating how he uses his wheelchair to go up and down stairs, play sports, and do many of the things everyone else does, with some modifications. He shows kids his Ford pickup equipped with a special seat, wheelchair lift, and remote control power topper. Brandon is amazed at how much of a difference these brief encounters can make in changing the way kids think about people in wheelchairs. "Their first reaction is that they are a little unsure, only because they just don't know we are typically normal people who have suffered injuries," he explains. "They have no idea we were just like their moms and dads before. But after an hour of questions and answers, and discussing all of the great things we can still do, they offer to push me, open doors, carry my things to the truck, anything to be involved." Kids aren't the only ones affected by Brandon's courage and positive outlook. His friends and family have been with him every step of the way the past two years, and are proud of what he has overcome. His mother, Carol Halloran Ferguson, isn't at all surprised at her son's resolve. "It never occured to him to set limits. He never has," she says. "Scott still has that twinkle in his eye and the good nature and easy grin.
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