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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has a new set of wheels, and adjusting to them may require more than was demanded when his first wheels were pulled out from behind the neighbor’s machine shed in the form of a no-tires Model T Ford pickup that never did become road worthy.
Since that time there have been many wheels, perhaps peaking out with those on a red Studebaker convertible when he was a single UW student, and then on a series of family-transporting wagons and vans. Then there were the wheels on the campers that took him everywhere from Alaska to South Padre Island and fascinating places in between.
But none of the wheels have impacted the keeper’s life as significantly as those on the folding walker that he and Phylis picked up from Dessa, the VA physical therapist today.
These VA wheels represent a step up in the keeper’s efforts to avoid falling and remaining upright until, as he likes to think of it, his personal wheels fall off.
While he would much prefer adjusting to red convertible wheels, the keeper will listen to Phyllis as she tells him the walker wheels will make it safer for him to stand in front of the kitchen counter to wash the pots and pans she uses to make soup and bake pies for him.
