Thanks Again Brother Ed May God Continue to Bless Your Teachings
Farzana Z. Ali poses for a portrait exterior her apartment on North Campus on the twenty-four hours of her graduation from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on May one, 2020. The ceremony was presented nearly considering of the COVID-19 response. Ali is going to Stony Brook Academy to complete her PhD in Biomedical Engineering.
Photographer: Meredith Forrest Kulwicki
Four years ago, I started my journeying as a medical student in the Jacobs Schoolhouse of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. My medical education started with the toughest form of all. Anatomy! And my worst nightmare came truthful during my first test for the course. My laptop bombardment died in the middle of the exam. I had to stop taking the exam in order to notice a suitable charger. Rather than focusing on the answers to difficult human anatomy questions, I kept hoping and praying that my battery on this old and dying laptop would last till the finish of the exam.
Definitely not the best way to start the well-nigh challenging year at the medical school, where the amount of data that gets thrown at yous is considered equivalent to drinking from a fire hose. Now imagine doing that, with limp hands and useless legs, on a paralyzed body, stuck in a motorized wheelchair. And practice you care to know how that happened?
At the age of 21, I suffered a spinal cord injury, after being hit past a drunkard driver on my neighborhood road. Following many months of rehabilitation, I returned to the community with a eye full of hope, but before long I realized how difficult it is for a quadriplegic person to thrive in this social club, designed for and ruled by athletic individuals. But what made me still hang on to my dream of condign a doctor was the dearest and support I received from my friends, families and even strangers who believed in me.
1 such wonderful back up came from the Travis Roy Foundation, defended to improving the lives of individuals with spinal cord injuries. It was the laptop I received from the foundation that put an finish to that nightmare for expert, and immune me to take subsequent medical school exams with peace of listen. It was a keen support at that fourth dimension, equally I embarked on a journey through an already expensive bookish pursuit. The laptop has helped me during my bones science courses, especially to take exams, equally well every bit my clinical rotations in the hospitals and outpatient clinics.
And then now after four years, upon my graduation from the medical school, I want to convey my heartfelt gratitude to all the members of the foundation who work tirelessly to make the world a better place for individuals like me. And to all those swell souls who provide their unconditional support for the great cause of this foundation. You may non get to see the smile you lot put on all of our faces, only know for sure that all you do every 24-hour interval has a tremendous impact on our happiness and success!
Thank you!
Farzana
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May 15, 2020
Well it'due south been six months and a pandemic since nosotros finished the kitchen but I finally got a moving-picture show for yous with the Travis Roy sign. This is our son and his all-time friend James cooking. Prior to the pandemic, James came every Friday dark to melt with Spenser. It was sooooo hard for them to do it in our old galley kitchen. This new kitchen is a dream!! Thank you and the Travis Roy foundation for your co tribute on to help make this happen!! We are blessed and forever grateful!!
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Apr x, 2020
I'1000 and so excited and so grateful and thankful for this grant. I have had an incredible experience at Spaulding and will be eternally grateful to them for the care and expertise of traumatic spinal cord injuries. I feel very blessed for the opportunity of applying for the Travis Roy Foundation Grant. I felt it was a long shot, merely I'one thousand so glad I applied. I tin't give thanks you enough! Cheers Travis Roy for all the good you lot do on making a difference in people's lives. I go on to work towards getting dwelling. The ramp has been installed and I am looking forward to using it in the very near hereafter and gaining my independence back. 😊
God anoint y'all all!
Always in faith, love, peace, joy and eternally grateful …Susan
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January 28, 2020
I'g blessed and Highly favored by God, to accept been awarded to be a recipient of this most gracious and prestigious Grant by the Travis Roy Foundation. I'm humbled and thankful, to say the very least. This is amazing!! My family is ecstatic!!! We're extremely appreciative for your generosity.
I haven't taken my van back for the repairs even so, but at least now I'll be able to receive the services needed. I'm also thankful the grant can be used over the course of 1 yr, instead of having to use it all at one time.
Again, cheers from the bottom of my eye♥️
Rhett
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January 27, 2020
On behalf of my male parent, James, my husband and I desire to thank the Travis Roy Foundation for the grant for his ability chair. His life has changed for the better, equally a result. Upon delivering it to him, he said, "I was dreaming most my chair and that looks only like it did in my dream!" Since receiving his chair, he has been getting out of bed and getting dressed every day. He leaves his room for meals, goes to the anteroom to poke exterior for some fresh air and goes down the hall to engage in his wellness exercises. He has traveled to MassGeneral to encounter with some specialists who volition be part of his rehab team. He was able to get to Journey-Forrard for a tour and is planning to attend their program for his rehab, every bit well. And, for Christmas, he went on a home visit for the commencement time in 15 mos. since his injury! It was the all-time gift. He now realizes he can make more progress, all equally a result of receiving his ability chair and gaining some more than independence. We are very grateful. Thank you, across words.
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January 17, 2020
I am writing this letter to express my sincere gratitude for application me a grant for a
new computer.
Thank You lot, because, with this new estimator, I will commence on a journey for
independence! It volition open up cracking opportunities for me, and for that I am grateful. I will
pursue my interest in creative arts and music entrepreneurship. Without this grant
that wouldn't be possible.
I as well want to thank the Trustees who were sympathetic and took my request nether
Consideration.
It's an amazing feeling to have been fortunate enough to be considered and
Awarded.
All-time regards,
Jonathon
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January five, 2020
Thank yous and so much for my daughter's new bed. It arrived on Christmas Eve. We took a movie with her in her new bed. Please find information technology attached.
Once again, thank you so much! You made my lilliputian girl very happy!!! And it couldn't have arrived on a meliorate day.
God Anoint you,
Happy New Year!!!
Angie
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November 14, 2019
Today is mean solar day ii after discharge. We went for a walk of our neighborhood. That is possible cheers to yous and the Foundation. Without information technology we would have had to move. Now due to the ramp we tin can stay in our flat and focus on moving forward versus moving homes. Thank you.
Josh
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June xiii, 2019
I thank you and the Travis Roy Foundation for the grant. The wheelchair Smart Drive Power Assist Unit of measurement has made an improvement in my daily activity and less painful. Besides it has given me more than independent living.
This helps me assist patients with spinal cord injuries at Hospital and Acute Rehabilitation Facility as a Peer Mentor.
Victor
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June 4, 2019
Me, Jennifer, and my family would similar to give thanks the Travis Roy Foundation for giving us the donation to put in a ramp. It makes my life more attainable and easier. Now I can go places without beingness scared to come out. Thank you lot all for the aid.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
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May xviii, 2019
I but want to thank you for the generosity you accept displayed by granting me funds and so I can adapt my vehicle.
Since my spinal cord injury it has been difficult adjusting to this new lifestyle. Being able to alter my vehicle gave me the opportunity to drive my car once again. It has done then much for me. It immune me to render to work only more importantly, it gave me the feeling of being able to live a normal life again. Words tin't express my gratitude.
Jason
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April 16, 2019
We cannot thank you enough for your back up. The generous donation was put towards an elevator that provides Ryan liberty of movement throughout our abode.
Best wishes for the continued success and generosity of the Travis Roy Foundation. You make large positive impacts on the lives of people in need.
Ken
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April 11, 2019
On July 22, 2018 when I was competing in Montana's Big Sky State Games in a mountain bicycle effect, I went over the handlebars of my bike, breaking my neck at the C6 and C7 level and sustained a substantial spinal cord injury leaving me a quadriplegic. I underwent surgery to stabilize my neck, spent ten days in intensive care and four months in rehab at Craig Hospital.
When I got out of the infirmary and back to my old bed, I realized how uncomfortable it was and I was very concerned about getting force per unit area sores. With the Travis Roy Foundation Grant that I was awarded, I was able to purchase a Royal iii mattress with an adjustable base. My Purple iii mattress was built using engineering science specifically designed to prevent pressure sores and skin suspension downwards. The mattress is soft plenty that I am finally able to become a comfy dark sleep and information technology is house enough that I do not sink downwards and I am able to move around to reposition and transfer myself. The adjustable base is a corking feature allowing me to raise and lower my caput and anxiety into multiple positions which is nice for circulation and comfort. It is hard to put in words how much I capeesh the Travis Roy Foundation for their financial help and making my life and so much better.
THANK You,
Bryce
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April five, 2019
Hello!!!!
I received assistance from your foundation a yr agone and I just would similar to say how thankful I am of all your help. Information technology'south considering of yous I'm on my feet standing tall again. I simply would like to say cheers a million times and I will exist forever grateful of your support!!!!! If there is anything else I can assist with please contact me equally soon as fourth dimension permits!!!!
Thanks,
Karsten
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March 18, 2019
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Chuck and I would similar to thank you for your generous gift of a seat elevator for his new wheelchair. This will greatly improve Chuck'south independence.
May God bless you richly,
Honey, Chuck and Rene
I would like to have the time to cheers and the foundation for providing the funding help for a comfortable bed and making it possible to get rid of the 2 hospital beds and buy one split king size bed that has an adaptable base and will perform just too as an hospital bed would but will allow my spouse and myself to slumber together in comfort like any other couple.
Gratefully,
Mia
I would like to give thanks the Travis Roy Foundation for their generosity for the grant for my son, Michael Adams. This grant enabled him to take hand controls put in his truck. When my son received the email blessing the grant, nosotros were elated and felt and then blessed. This grant has given him the independence he needs to go along to be the son, dad, blood brother and wonderful person that he is. My son's decision and positive outlook on this life changing event is amazing. We are humbled by the generosity of the foundation and how they have and continue to help SCI people. Words will never express the gratitude we feel for this astonishing gift.
Cheers, Sandy Dunn
Within ii weeks of my married woman submitting a grant request to the Travis Roy Foundation for a ceiling lift we received notification that our grant was approved. I was blown away with the generosity and speediness of the request. The ceiling lift is the single near used piece of equipment every solar day. We are and so happy we take had the pleasure of meeting Travis ii times in the past twelvemonth and accept been able to personally thank him. He is such a kind and selfless person and we are so grateful.
Sincerely,
Les Foster (C4/C5) injury August 6th, 2016
I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the Travis Roy Foundation for their generous grant of $3500 for a Select Comfort Slumber Number bed. On July 3rd 2016 I broke my neck at the C6-C7 level which resulted in a spinal cord injury. During the months of rehabilitation that followed, the importance of being vigilant for and preventing skin pressure wounds was emphasized over and over. My Slumber Number bed plays an important office in accomplishing this task. The bed equalizes the pressure on my pare along the sleep surface, I can suit the firmness of the bed for activities such as dressing and I can lift the caput of the bed to make activities like reading and watching TV much more comfortable. Thank you again for making this possible and helping me toward achieving my goal of independent living
Michael Delisle
Please relay my thank you to the folks of the Travis Ropy Foundation for providing me with funds to purchase a Smartdrive for my wheelchair. I am very grateful for this technology and it is, and volition likely go on to exist, a positive modify in my life. I would not accept had the opportunity to experience this aid without the TRF funding.
Later over 40 years as a wheelchair user, my wrists, elbows and shoulders are pretty well shot. This transition from an active life to a more sedate existence has been difficult for me psychologically, however, this device allows me to continue to become out and about without further degrading my arms. It gives my arms a chip of a rest and that helps me regain and maintain a positive attitude!
I am very grateful for yous financial assistance. Give thanks you lot again for helping me buy this device.
David Baggett
This gift has enabled us to alter our bath for our son Kiland. In 2013, Kiland suffered a serious spinal cord injury (level C6) in a diving blow. He is unable walk and has express employ of his easily. Later on his injury, access to our bathroom and the use of the shower was extremely difficult and frustrating for him. We took off the doors to our walk in shower, simply he still had to transfer to a bench. Balancing on this bench wasn't platonic and he couldn't plough the knobs, and so I would have to assistance him with his showers. At present, at xviii years of age, he is wanting more than independence and privacy. With the modification and roll in shower he is able to take a total shower without my assistance. He only rolls his shower chair into the shower and relaxes in private. He can also utilize the sink with ease.
The modification has been life irresolute for him. Kiland is and so happy, that whatsoever family unit member who visits, he wants to show them his new bathroom. We cannot give thanks the Travis Roy Foundation enough for its support of Kiland. Our family will be forever grateful.
Sincerely,
Kyra Holland
We desire to say Thank You from the lesser of our hearts for the generosity the Travis Roy Foundation gave Christopher in allowing him to become more than independent. Christopher uses the elevator several times a day and it is a joy to see him utilize his bedroom, bath and "hang out infinite". The elevator Travis Roy Foundation helped purchase is bringing normalcy into Christopher's life.
Thank you for your compassion and understanding and helping proceed Christopher moving forwards, focusing on getting stronger, independent and hopefully ane solar day to walk once more.
Christopher, Charles, and Belinda Cameron
I wanted to share my excitement upon opening the letter of grant blessing I was floored and in shock. Through your generosity the ability to travel with my power chair which I need to become independent inside my community as well as enjoying my outside hobbies with my family unit. This equipment will assist to shape the way I live from this point on. I can't thank you plenty for the ability to live my life outside of my house to the fullest also as the power to exist able to scout my children play sports. I am truly humbled I am looking frontwards to go fishing in the bound. Thank you once again for your generosity I am truly humbled. If there is annihilation I can practise to help going frontwards please let me know.
Marc Carignan
We would like to give y'all a huge thank you. The computer with Dragon software has fabricated a huge departure in Mary's daily life. She talks with and sees the grandkids every several days. Your organization makes lives ameliorate and may you continue your service for many years to come up.
Mary & Martin Muench
A few months agone I contacted the Travis Roy foundation for grant. About a month ago I received a grant in the amount of $5000. Since and so I have used the coin to make modifications to my vehicle then I can drive myself and not have to depend on someone for a ride every day. I wanted to take a moment of your time to express my gratitude for the Travis Roy Foundation. As some of you know, the road I face as a quadriplegic is non going to be like shooting fish in a barrel. There are many things that I am going to struggle with and some things that I volition not be able to achieve, especially on my own. To me, getting back on the road was one of these things. Driving equipment, although helpful for someone in my shoes, is very expensive. The coin I received from the Travis Roy Foundation made it possible for me to achieve this milestone. Two years ago when I was injured, as well renovations to my home then it'southward more attainable, driving once more was 1 of my biggest goals. In one case once again I merely want to say thank you. Your generosity humbles me and alters my perception.
Garrett Buzzard
Hullo my proper name is Tyrone Melt Sr. And would similar to thank the foundation for their back up and the grant I received for my hoyerlift. It is such a big assist with transferring in and out of bed and my chair, it makes a big difference in my life.
Thank you.
I would like to thank the Travis Roy Foundation for its generous gift of $600 for much needed repairs for my conversion van. I alive at home with my wife and 2 of my three children. I accept been paralyzed from my chest down (T7 level) since August of 1991. Over the concluding 4 1/two years I have not been able to teach function time which was a large part of paying my bills. This grant will help me get back to work.
Thank you, Bruce
Dearest Travis Roy and Board Members,
Please excuse the tardiness of this cheers. I cannot thanks plenty for your generosity. The $5000 grant that was put towards the purchase and installation of an elevator in my new habitation has provided me with so much freedom and independence and has made an enormous affect on my life. The elevator allows me to access all levels of my domicile and to enter and exit into and out of my habitation through the garage with ease. Words can not express my sincere appreciation to you for your assistance in providing me this privilege and giving me this liberty. Your kindness and generosity will remain with me forever.
Thanks & God Bless Y'all, Mark Messina
I would like to thank you so much for the $ane,000 granted to me for my ramp. Because of this neat souvenir, my parents exercise not have to bear me inside the business firm. I experience more independent considering of this great gift. People do not understand that everyday things such equally going within my business firm became an obstacle.
Thank y'all so much. – Anaiss (13 years onetime)
Dear Travis Roy Foundation, you have done a wonderful thing!, and I can't thank you enough!I was surfing the web looking for help me and a friend. I really didn't know what that was. My life was different later my injury. I needed something more than meaningful, watching TV everyday wasn't getting it. My son innovate me to the web, something called Webtv. I wanted something a trivial more than avant-garde, so when I surfed and found the Travis Roy Foundation which help people with spinal cord injuries. The Travis Roy foundation has blessed me with a grant to have a figurer and a naturally speaking dragon.
This has giving me more independence it has made a great impact in my life! I can communication with my family, close by, and long distance. It allows me to take care of my business organisation, read, listen to CD's, spotter video'south, and social media it'due south a huge blessing and I thank you for that, by the grace of God. Now I feel part of the world through the net. Travis thank you very much! being confine to a wheelchair hasn't stopped you lot!….Keep the great work up helping me, and others, may God continue to bless you lot and the people who are responsible for helping you with this foundation.
Thanks again Tonna!
May I say cheers Travis Roy Foundation for getting me a new roho cushion for my back up wheelchair. For the longest time I've been switching cushions between two chairs because the last cushion ripped across repair. One chair is powered and the other is a transmission that I often switch dorsum and forth due to going out or staying in. As expensive every bit these cushions are I did not know where or when I would be able to get one myself but y'all came to my rescue. Whew! What a divergence it has been having two cushions again. I'k and then thankful for the adept you do not only for me just for many other people as well. So thank you once more Travis Roy foundation you have truly made a difference here.
Bishara
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you lot and all of those responsible for the fiscal assistance. The van that I purchased back in April 2014 would probably still be sitting in my garage without your assist, It had a lift on it already but was not fix up then I could drive information technology. I needed power door openers, a power seat base, and paw controls to exist able to drive it independently.
I picked up my van from having the additional modifications made on June twenty. What a change over the 1985 van that I had been driving! I've owned and driven that van since it was new. The van I bought in 2014 was a 2011 model with only 18,000 miles. Oh what a difference a 26 yr newer vehicle makes!! Although the 1985 has been like i of the family unit.
I know cheers just doesn't seem similar nearly enough! My deepest heartfelt thanks for your assistance in helping me to keep my independence.
Sincerely,
David B. Horsfall
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
I would like to thanks for the grant y'all have given me for my calculator. Equally you lot know, the complications that come with a spinal cord injury practise non stop a few months afterward being injured; they are life long and new ones come and go. Recently, over the by few months, I have been experiencing astringent stomach pains and have not been comfortable enough to attend school nor accept I been comfy enough to enjoy the things that I similar to practice.
The estimator that your Foundation as purchased for me volition allow me to catch up on my high schoolhouse work and allow me to move on to college where my computer will continue to aid me to progress into my future with conviction.
Though my stomach pains are temporary (I hope), the love and understanding I feel when working at my computer will always exist there and I thank you then much for what your foundation does for people with spinal cord injuries. My blow was life changing and and then is this computer (in a slap-up way). My hopes and dreams for a amend than normal life and career, will now be easier to attain.
Thank you
David
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
Thank you so much for awarding me a grant to buy a new laptop figurer. The grant is a tremendous assist, and I am truly grateful for your support.
I simply finished my beginning year of medical school at the Academy of Wisconsin. It was a year full of challenges and triumphs, and I am convinced that medicine is my true calling.
Thanks to your organization for support students who have overcome spinal cord injuries. I promise to serve as a mentor for students with disabilities who want to become doctors. Again, Thank you.
Sincerely,
Jeff Mahlum
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
First of all I would like to thank [the] Lord for making Foundations like yours help people like me. Thank you for granting me the grant to get my elevator replaced. Information technology came simply equally it was getting worse and breaking more. At present I tin keep my independence, and go on trying to notice piece of work.
I've been all solitary since my mom passed a few years agone and depend on no one. I've had it bad sense and so, but with the blessing you gave me I tin can keep moving forward. Again Give thanks You from the bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
Kenneth C.
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
Thanks and so much for awarding me a grant for an iPod for my medical educational activity. This technology will be invaluable for studying purposes, and I am so grateful for this. Your support truly ways a lot. I finished my first semester of medical school, and I started the second semester last week. It has been going really well, and I am excited for gross anatomy this semester. Again, thank you so much for your support!
Sincerely,
Jeff Mahlum
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
I would like to thank Travis Roy Foundation for their generous gift that will permit me to continue leading an active and contained life. Spinal cord injury puts all sorts of limitations and challenges in people's lives, and I am very grateful that with your aid I will exist able to overcome one of these challenges. Installation of paw controls in my automobile brought self sufficiency back into my life and volition make my unlimited mobility possible.
Marina
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
Cheers very much for the grant, [for] the computer and dragon software. They are both going to be very helpful for school which I'm sure you know is more difficult. My family and I have appreciated your support and assist through out this. Hope all is well.
Dan Waite
Honey Travis Roy Foundation,
Thank you and then much for your kindness. The figurer volition exist very helpful to Kelly. You have fabricated a difficult year that much meliorate.
Thanks.
Mary Ann – Kelly Dwyer's Mother
Honey Travis Roy Foundation,
Thank you very much for the grant to pay for my platform elevator. It has truly changed my life. I was not able to exit of my house by myself, and now I tin can get out anytime I need or want to.
Once again, thanks very much. Words cannot express the gratitude I have for your organization. People with SCI are blessed to take you to help out in our time of swell need.
Thank you
Gary Shandera
Dearest Sirs and Madams
I'g writing this annotation to express how grateful I'thou for having receiving your charitable gift which is a new laptop figurer. In fact, it is more than a calculator that I got. It is the materialization of the love and care of the noble Travis Roy Foundation towards vulnerable people.
Happiness is an understatement!
Thanks so much!
Blaise
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
Nosotros are truly grateful for your commitment and dedication to helping family'south like ours who are adapting and living fully in the setting of a spinal cord injury. On Oct 27, 2012, we were stunned with the unimaginable, a football injury resulting in a catastrophic spinal cord injury to our son, Sterling Thomas. Nosotros establish ourselves in need of your support and y'all came through for us.
With your grant of $2467, a shower chair has been purchased and delivered to Sterling. Thanks to you, Sterling is able to luxuriate in what nearly of us take for granted…a steamy, warm shower! Yes, Sterling is glad to accept a shower chair which allows him to perform his personal intendance with greater independence and nobility.
Again, thank you, Travis Roy Foundation, and then much for helping Sterling and our family unit to "Move Forward".
Sterling Thomas and family
Thank you for awarding me this amazing grant for a estimator. I am very excited to receive it in the next few weeks and be able to independently do school work. I am very excited that I volition have some assistive technology to help me maneuver the computer so that I tin can be successful in completing my work. Having this computer will help me exist one step closer in achieving my goal to becoming an accessibility and sustainability consultant in the design field. Cheers!
Kelley Gaddu
At this time around Thanksgiving, nosotros are reminded of all the blessings we've received thru the yr….. The greatest approval was the grant given to my brother Karl Seitz, from your generous Foundation. He is loving the amazing computer he recently received. Information technology will allow him to communicate with his doctors to go along them updated in his daily care. Most of all, it connects him to the bigger world and he will be able to feel productive and less isolated.
"We" thank y'all from the lesser of our hearts. Y'all are an affections sent from above to aid others in demand.
Julie Hello
I merely broke downward in tears, the happiest tears out of any of my daily tears over the past 6 months. Please extent mine, and my sister'southward enormous gratitude to the foundation. I don't even know what to say, I'g very taken back in relief, tears and overwhelmed that someone is going to help her. God Bless You and The Foundation – please permit me them know that gratitude isn't a large plenty word, there are no words.
Kimberly Friedson
It'south 7p.m. CDT and I AM SPEECHLESS. God bless you and the Lath and I may take understated but how much of a "blessing" this is. I have slept on a recliner since my accident and the last time I tried a mattress was when forced to evacuate during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I laid downwardly for perhaps an hour and had to sleep in the motel chair. THANK YOU so much and I should overcome this shock by tomorrow and volition work on new estimates to keep the toll at or under $700. I will be in touch with you earlier Thursday and give thanks you lot again. I idea the Board had voted by now and had given upwardly promise.
Sheryl
OMNI Behavioral Health wishes to thank the Travis Roy Foundation for the generous grant to aid install a wheelchair ramp for an individual we work with in the small rural town of Ithaca Nebraska. With the new ramp, which volition exist installed adjacent calendar week, he will be able to enjoy more activities with his family unit and regular trips to church and out to consume, and nourish his regular doctor appointments in Omaha. In the next few weeks I am certain you will exist hearing from his guardian and other family members too about the newly installed ramp. We capeesh the fact that there are organizations that are willing to support the disabled individuals in our nation to live their lives fully and completely to the best of their ability. Thank-you for assuasive this to be achieved in a timely fashion.
Deborah Monfelt BFA, MFA, Extended Family Home Coordinator
We are sooooo appreciative of the grant to assistance united states of america out with the ceiling lift. Information technology is truly so much assist for me when I am putting Bill in the bed at night, and getting him upward in the morning. He weighs around 250 and fifty-fifty though we transfer on a slide board I am doing at least threescore% of the work. The lift makes it so much easier.
Thank you and the Travis Roy family and Foundation. What a wonderful souvenir you are giving.
Honey, Susie Gurley
Dear Travis Roy Foundation:
Thank you for the Grant for the Dell Calculator. I simply wanted to share with you what the grant will do for me and my time to come. Showtime I would like to give y'all a niggling background on myself. I take been paralyzed from a swimming blow since June of 1990 and I have worked extremely hard to not let my paralysis dictate my life, or my dreams, for that matter. I take two children that I had later my accident. I have a daughter Britt she is 15 this upcoming April and my son Tyler is turning 12 February 13th. They are the reason I go on fighting the fight so to speak.
I accept been successful at virtually everything I accept set my listen to doing from raising my children to working countless hours at my previous corporate career with AT&T. I believe each and every 1 of us has what it takes to attain the dreams we have. I decided to go to school after existence laid off during the crude economic system. I had numerous setbacks that financially put me in a position that I was not sure if I could afford to go to college. I realized that I needed some help to get through the temporary problems. So I started researching and came beyond your foundation and information technology has truly been a blessing. I will be able to consummate my instruction in a timely manner and continue to support my family. Give thanks y'all once again for having such a wonderful foundation. If there is anything I tin ever do in the future for the foundation please don't hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely, Jason Lindahl
Many thanks to Travis Roy and to each of the trustees of this extraordinary foundation for your dedication to helping meliorate the lives of then many. I am a recent beneficiary of your kindness and generosity, having received a grant to purchase a standing frame, which volition undoubtedly have profoundly positive effects on my physical and psychological health.
From the bottom of my heart, I give thanks you.
Rebecca Tripp
Hullo Travis Roy Foundation, I want to cheers for everything your Foundation has done for me. I have the all-time reckoner set-up anybody could enquire for. I get compliments from visitors walking by my room.
Thank you once again.
MATTHEW BLAVAT
I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to the Travis Roy Foundation for the generous grant awarded to me. Because of this grant I am on my way to a more independent life!
Cheers Once more,
Ben Goss
To the Travis Roy Foundation
I cannot express how much we thanks for the money you have donated to the Jackson Family They have are the appointment for the wheelchair elevator to be installed.
Y'all have provided hope when there was none to find. Thanks to your staff, lath members, and the Travis Roy Foundation for what you lot have washed.
Sincerely,
Sheila Matson (Marvin Jackson Family)
Dear Friends,
We write to express our appreciation and gratefulness on behalf of Ed and Carol Gregory. Ed is a quadriplegic cared for at domicile past his married woman Ballad since 2009. The Foundation approved the purchase of a $2100 shower chair in December 2011. The chair is a God-send and makes it immensely easier to bathe Ed and go along him clean. When told of your approval of the chair, he said, "You mean I tin can at present go a shower?" Since sponge baths has been his lot for two years and more, he was elated, as was Ballad. And so thanks to your donors for opening their hearts and wallets to those who endure and are in slap-up demand. Thanks to the Board for choosing Ed as a recipient of not-enough-funds to go around for the many requests from which you must choose. Thanks to your very helpful and efficient staff which interfaces with the public. God anoint y'all all beautifully.
Hazel and Gary Bovard (friends of Ed and Ballad)
Dear Travis Roy Foundation,
I am writing to you all at the Travis Roy Foundation to limited my sincere and deepest appreciation for your help fixing my kitchen.
The difference you lot made in my daily life is so incredible and my life has become much easier. There really are no proper words except on the lesser of your stationery "Helping others move Frontwards". I take to say that does say a lot and you all accept given me a hazard to move frontwards and be so much more independent.
I will forever exist grateful and will send you photographs in a a few weeks.
Sincerely,
Noel Cariere
To the Travis Roy Foundation!
Thank you for the grant to aid me be able to get my new wheelchair! Ya'll are a life saver….
Thanks so much,
Teresa A. Myer
Beloved Travis Roy and Foundation,
I would like to give thanks you for your kind and generous grants I practical for in 2011. Your grants allow me to live equally independently equally I can. My new figurer is running and my environmental command unit in my flat is merely keen. As well the grant for my new wheelchair necessities has immune me to get rid of my broken and unrepairable wheelchair.
Thanks again,
Brian Kandal
To the Trustees of the Travis Roy Foundation and staff:
As we all gather for Christmas and the New Twelvemonth with family and friends, I will exist reflecting on all that brings meaning and joy to my life. I will be thinking of all the new friends that I have made through my new life's journeying. I want you to know that I am and so proud and grateful to the Travis Roy Foundation for the smashing gift to help me go along my new life. This door opener will permit me to get in and out of my business firm past myself, and let me have more freedom then before. The Travis Roy Foundation has gone above and beyond by helping people get back to a better level of life.
At this fourth dimension of the yr, we have been taught that it's "better to requite then to receive". I accept always been a giver, just this is one gift that I'm very happy to receive. This simply goes to show me nearly how my life has touched then many others. It is true; I am having "A WONDERFUL LIFE" through good times and bad! Your donation shows me that I must be here to brand a divergence on my life or influence someone else'southward life. Fifty-fifty through a tragedy, you must go along your head up, because you don't known how you may touch on others.
Over again, Cheers, and I will keep you in my prayers.
MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY New year!!!
May you all take many more than. Delight keep up the great work!
Dale H. Steuer
Love Travis Roy Foundation,
Cheers for the grant of five,000.00 for van modifications. You accept gave me the gift of independence of a life fourth dimension. I accept been able to volunteer in my community, work and have a social life. And for that, I thank y'all!
Recently, I volunteered for the metropolis cleanup sweep. I wore a shirt that said, "We matter We contribute". I retrieve it's important to show awareness of the disability community. I hope information technology inspires people to realize.. if she can contribute in a wheelchair, I tin too!
It's simply possible for me to help others, because you helped me!
God Bless you, Have a Merry 10-mas & Happy New Year!
Toni Martin
I know I have expressed in previous e-mails for the graciousness of this grant and how it would allow me to pay information technology forward and hopefully as the bills shows I spent this money frugally.
I can't imagine how many applications come in each month and what an arduous task that must be for the Board of Directors to make difficult decisions on disbursements.
Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. Every twenty-four hours we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges; when nosotros are feeling overwhelmed, one simple concept that can get u.s. through the well-nigh stressful of times is gratitude! It'southward the gratitude that comes from the Travis Roy foundation that requite others the wherewithal and fortitude to deport on. I believe Travis and his foundation have truly epitomized the word" SELFLESSNESS"
Dan Iagatta Three
I heard about Travis Roy long before my brother Daniel Iagatta's c4 injury in 2004 and I certainly didn't know, at the time, that it would impact u.s. in a positive style.
He is 48 years old. He has been driving for 5 or 6 years now and when he received his new chair he wasn't able to practise as much and he wasn't getting around equally much. I would love to thank the Travis Roy Foundation, on behalf of myself and Dan'southward family, for retrofitting his new chair to his van in gild to gain his independence back.
As a primary plumber of 23 years, paramedic,pt firefighter , he has given and so much to the community and at present the community has given him then much in return. Thanks to this foundation he can continue to deliver meals to the homebound for "Meals on wheels", teach religious educational activity for Saint Mary'due south in Foxboro and most recently he but landed a teaching job! Thank you again for giving him back his freedom. 🙂
Marilyn Iagatta Kristenson
Yous have made our day, month and year. What a wonderful surprise it was to get your annotation. We are trying to salve more coin to exercise the total conversion and capeesh the yr of time to achieve that goal. Hopefully we will accomplish it sooner than later – this grant really helps us get on our fashion! I wait forward to sending pictures of me in the van with my 3 little girls. I volition keep you lot posted. Please extend my deepest gratitude to all in your organization and to the trustees. I wish you all could exist here today to experience the joy we are feeling. Words practise not practice my feelings justice. Thank You lot! Your grant has not but changed today, only many days in the future.
Truly, Sam Russell
Thank you lot then much for negotiating this and sorry if it was any hassle. I accept had the wheels now for four months and without them I would not take had the independence I enjoy now. Not to mention they are kind of fun. I tin cycle for miles and information technology is a breeze!
Travis Roy did a talk at the prep school I attended, Brooks Schoolhouse, when I was there around 2003 or 2004. I never thought years later that I myself would face up his challenges and I remember him to this mean solar day. In this calorie-free, the grant the Foundation has awarded me is even more special. I am both touched and extremely grateful that there are people out there who understand my needs and are willing to assistance out! I will send you all a photograph of me with my wheels in the near future.
Sincerely,
Daniela Schirmer
I would like to thank you for helping realize my dream. You played such a huge role in this entire procedure. Thanks to you I accept obtained a huge degree of independence. I appreciate all of your time, free energy, and effort that you take invested in order for me to obtain my dream computer.
God bless y'all and your family,
Eli Alvarado
I received my new ultralightwieght wheelchair today and I simply can't cheers enough for allowing me to go along my independence. Its been along fourth dimension since a smile that big has been on my confront, and thank you to y'all I tin keep up with the all-time of them. Equally I stroll down the route I enjoy my freedom, and the outside world and now I take the wheelchair to do it all in fashion. You are no doubt my angel, and as far as I know I can't cheers plenty for how grateful I am that in that location was someone like me out there to empathise my situation. Then once again a lifetime of thanks's, and god bless. Sincerely, David Curtin
To Everyone at Travis Roy,
I would like to say thank you for the funding that yous provided which allowed me to go the elevator for my pick-upwards truck and so I can take my power wheelchair outside of the iv walls of my home. Your generosity ways so much to me and has given me new hope. I tin can now go places I hadn't been able to in years – including my appointments!
You've fabricated my life so much easier and blithesome. I would never have been able to afford this on my ain.
God Bless yous All. Cheers Once again,
Carl Clark
Cheers for helping others move forrard!!!
Travis Roy Foundation,
Give thanks you then much for getting me the funds for the head mouse. I am notwithstanding learning to use it but it is giving me something to do with my time! Living at a nursing domicile is difficult, only this helps brand it better.
Mark Hosking
I simply wanted to say thanks to everyone at Travis Roy (Foundation) for assuasive me to keep my independence by helping me purchase an ultralight wheelchair. I can honestly say what would I have washed without a caring Foundation like the TRF. I got the phone call from Brenda on Monday and all I could exercise was cry happy tears when I received the message that I got my grant. Never give up the boxing for those that are suffering from a spinal cord injury, I know I haven't. Thanx once again. David
To all at Travis Roy,
I recently received funding from the Travis Roy Foundation to pay for modifications to my van to go far wheelchair accessible. The van came out great! I'm happy with it. The new conversion done by HDS of GA, has a 9″ cutting in the floor, making my driving from a power chair easy, comfy, and safe.
Special thanks to the Travis Roy Foundation for understanding the issue of independence and assisting people that can then help themselves and others.
I am forwarding some pictures of the van. Investing in people with disabilities returns us to productivity. We are all in this together.
Sincerely,
Bart Brophy
Mr. Roy,
There are no words to say thank you for your wonderful souvenir of independence, equally I am certain you are enlightened, how important that is in daily living. Yous and the Foundation are inspirational to all of us who live this challenging life. As well, I would like you lot to know how wonderful Mrs. Taylor and the Morse'south are – yous chose well, and I am and so blest for getting the opportunity to get to know them. I hope that if yous are ever on the Greatcoat, that I accept a chance to meet you and thank you in person.
Sincerely,
Inez
Cheers then much for everything you accept done for Grace and our family. Thanks so much for your generosity, kindness, and awesomeness. We volition cherish your kindness for now and forever. Words cannot express our gratitude!
With Beloved,
The Meek Family
My name is Christopher Miller and I would similar to thank the Travis Roy Foundation for the grant of $1400 for a new calculator, printer and portable mitt controls for a automobile. I don't know how I could accept got this without the foundation. I would like to give thanks all at the Travis Roy Foundation for what they have washed for me. Thanks and god bless the Travis Roy Foundation.
-Christopher Miller
Post spinal cord injury my "life" has changed. Maneuvering around habitation is always a formidable chore. My married woman constantly picks-upwardly afterwards our ii daughters (ages five & 9), but it is like shoveling during a snow storm…….minimal results. My girls fill the house with love and joy, simply continually litter the floor with books, toys, shoes. All of which make wheelchair mobility crude. Fortunately, we are now able to apply our downstairs (family room, toy room, kitchen) due to a newly constructed ramp. I can now roll around my belongings far more than efficient. This foundation provided me the ability to acheive farther independence, without their help and support this could not take happened. Thanks for all your much needed back up.
Cheers,
Eric Shairs
To the Travis Roy Foundation:
I would like to offer my sincerest thanks for the funding that you provided that allowed me to purchase an Easystand Evolv Standing Frame.
Throughout my life I take always made my wellness and physical fitness a top priority. Since my skiing injury and associated quadriplegia I have realized fifty-fifty more than so how extremely important it is to take care of my body. I regularly go to physical therapy to piece of work on my strength and conditioning, eat a healthy counterbalanced diet, and maintain an agile lifestyle. This was all great in maintaining what strength I did have in a wheelchair, only did little to challenge my body in an upright position. The but way I could practise this was with the buy of a standing frame, something that was financially far exterior my budget.
This is where your foundation was so helpful. By providing me the funding to purchase a standing frame y'all have given me the perfect piece of equipment to help challenge my body and build fitness in ways that I could have never done earlier. My rest has improved, I experience airheaded less ofttimes, and the psychological feeling of beingness tall over again is then incredible it's hard to explain.
Thank you! Thank you, for providing me with a piece of equipment that makes me healthier. And, thank you for beingness an organization that helps people challenged by this disability.
Sincerely, Michael Chasse
Lath of Travis Roy Foundation,
Thank you so much for the grant for my bathroom. We moved in a few weeks ago. What a treat to have this wonderful bath that I can utilise. Yous have helped me so much and given me even more independence. I'll never be able to thanks enough. But again thanks for helping me and other people in my position.
Sincerely,
Christopher Chaput
OH MY GOSH!!!!! I cannot tell you how happy you just fabricated our family!!
What a approval! I am ecstatic!!
Thanks ….. THANK You….. THANK Yous!!!
God bless you all!
Thanks and then much,
Kristy Adcock
I simply wanted to say "Thank you"! We are so grateful that you and your staff chose us for this grant. When we started this project, we did it on a wing and a prayer! We hope the enclosed pictures do the job justice. Thanks again, to each of you who helped my dream come up true!
Sincerely,
Malcolm, Dione, & Roy Broadwater and Debbie Bettner
I greatly appreciate your response, in helping me acquire my Truck Lift. Information technology takes people that care to make things happen! Ones that can see past the chair and sees a person with a need and purpose. Having the independence will truly enhance my life. With a helping hand you made my life's journey possible. I could non have done it without yous and for that I Thanks!
Cheers and God Bless,
Don Porter
On behalf of my brother George King (Geo) and his family unit, nosotros wish to sincerely thank y'all for the Travis Roy Foundation grant. It really means a lot to our family and George at such a difficult fourth dimension. Nosotros feel honored; and plan someday to help others similar Travis and the Foundation have helped George.
Sincerely,
Geo King & Family unit
Recently my son was given ane of your grants for a ceiling lift. We just wanted to say how much nosotros appreciate the gift. Information technology has made life a whole lot easier for myself and Kevin, my son, he has been able to sit on the burrow with the family and is able to go out of the wheelchair for a footling while and experience like a "normal" person. Over again Thanks VERY MUCH.
Tara Taglianetti-Chambers
Beloved Travis Roy Foundation-
Thanks so very much for the grant that my husband and I received! Nosotros were and so surprised to be awarded that money! The pocket door that was installed has fabricated all the deviation for my married man to be able to get in and out of the bathroom with ease in his wheelchair. We are so thankful that there are foundations around like yours that assistance individuals who really need it. Nosotros can't thanks enough!
Lots of love,
Ryan and Maggie Stevenson
Nosotros would like to take the time to thank yous in one case once more for the great donation to my girl. She loves the reckoner and wheelchair ramp. It has fabricated all our lives much better. Thanks once again to the great people y'all are.
Mark Culpepper / father
Thanks so much for granting me the funds for the truck lift that I requested. This is a huge deal to me; I would never accept afforded this without your help. My family and I want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. This will amend life tremendously for my married woman, son, and I. Thank Y'all.
Sincerely,
Eric, Teresa, and Shawn Williamson
Hullo There!
I merely wanted to send a Ginormous Thank you to all of y'all at the Travis Roy Foundation. The $7000 grant you awarded united states of america to have a Tas Lift seat installed in our truck has been a HUGE blessing for our whole family immediately. It'due south and so overnice to be able to go out and nearly without having to coordinate with whatsoever friends/family/neighbors who are hopefully available to help my wife get me in and out of the truck! Concluding dark my married woman & I were actually able to go out on a 'date nighttime' to the movies "on our own" and had a WONDERFUL time. It's incommunicable to explicate how much this meant to united states of america. Our three daughters are excited also considering Daddy will never miss some other school play or dance recital over again. So once again, Cheers Give thanks YOU & Give thanks Y'all!!! 🙂
Mark Hall
Dear Travis Roy Foundation:
Cory and I would like to thank the Travis Roy Foundation for its generous gift to enable united states of america to have the floors on the main level of our abode modified. The floors are beautiful and Corey has no problem getting around on the main floor now. Words cannot express our gratitude for this grant money. Please extend our thanks to the other members of this foundation. Without foundations such as the Travis Roy Foundation, people in Cory's situation would non have the opportunities to brand such necessary changes or meliorate quality of life and independent mobility.
God Anoint you all and give thanks you with all our eye.
Sincerely,
Tina & Cory Ferguson
Dear Board Members:
Please find enclosed a picture of my cute new figurer every bit well equally myself! I simply wanted to let y'all all know how wonderful information technology is to run my small business with these. With such high functioning equipment my life has greatly inverse. Non having to worry if I tin can receive a fax where of my computer will crash again, is priceless.
Living life with a astringent disability is truly hard… simply please know that you accept given something to me that makes it A LOT meliorate! I will never accept it for granted nor will I forget what you've done for me.
Thank you.
Marci Boone
To the Board Members of the Travis Roy Foundation:
I want to thank you very much for accepting/choosing me to receive a Koran from the foundation. My bathroom looks neat and works great for me and my home health aides. It is hard to put into words how grateful I am. Delight permit Travis know what a wonderful foundation he has.
Thanks again! God Bless you all!
Source: https://www.travisroyfoundation.org/sci/grants/letters-of-appreciation/
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