Why Gracie Rides an ATV When I'm on Horseback ( It's not why you think!)

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We are live on's XM channel 131 family talk you would be a part of at 877-655-6755 877-655-6755 and that was my beautiful wife Gracie singing rejoice evermore. You can get that wreck right now. It's on Amazon I tunes were all stuff is downloaded and you can also go to our website.

Hope for the caregiver.calm and see all the music she's put out there which is rather extensive and she's had a record coming out here next month if her producer can get it together so that would be me.

I was gonna say was this a visiting pig is a big who do I need to talk to all. I guess I know who are you yes you do it, but we did at 131 you did.

He said channel 131 yeah okay I just never know why I said I was just being silly and texting you. What were you doing that because I'm a silly person feeling of excelling in the midst of being a caregiver, or now we have to laugh.

We talk about this.

I know you know you do and that that yeah think that brings me to a story. Go ahead me to a story my wife and we we we have learned to laugh quite extensively. This month, list last Monday was Labor Day and I went out riding horses and she went on a forward with this time, and our friend Kathy was with us. We got some horses out here belong to her brother-in-law and were trying to come up with them in the shape little bit there little bit during I love to read and in Kathy's of real no kid Montana cow woman and she really knows her business and so rather run but I will. I was reminded of when the last times we were out here writing some years ago with Gracie and Gracie has these prosthetic legs and have little buttons on the side and that when you press the button this when the lid comes off the don't get ahead of me.

John, I'm waiting patiently and not I'm not quit while your punchline well and it'll go in a direction you can't even imagine anyway so we were out riding and sure enough the button get pressed on both legs as her legs, Florida gets the saddle. Sorry Gracie well and so the legs popped off okay. That's bad, but what happened was she was wearing straight leg jeans. The legs didn't come off the got stuck in the bottom of the jeans look like she had like 6 foot long X was. It was a little bit freaky looking will imagine what it did to the horse because his legs were beating against the expense of one of the horse to John. Oh no, and yes he did in the horse took off and Gracie is really extra long list just hanging down at her jeans were flapping the horse and beating the horse you know in the horse was just terrified because I been in reality is not how human is shaped well in India and equestrian school.

The horse never learned how to deal with prosthetic legs flapping friend. She needs and so Parker, our oldest son, Parker and I chased her down on our horses.

We got it would cut the horse and she's Gracie's screaming and hollering in and everything else and holding on for dear life. It was it was rather serious, but it was also well it was rather serious, but we can look back at it and laugh now and right end and then and didn't.

We took her legs off but were not there to you don't outside. She doesn't have her legs on. She's she can't get off the horse very easily because you have legs now and I could put back on because we needed to be able to take the jeans awful Parkers. There should never take the jeans off their so we we catapult them all the way through the the jeans and then I carried one and letter horseback, and Parker put the other would in the rifle boot scabbard of this please get a lick disc and he's okay I all the way back we he's just fuming, he's like this is just this is mom, mom, half mom now and you know it. I've carried a leg and delete the horse and we finally got up I got off the horse, and she was able to effectively put her legs back on and in the horse is still going to the horse psychiatrist. I have so what you will eat out of the stall here. Tell Bill about Parker's mother so that's that's just that's our life and speaking prosthetic of grid I would say well this is I I've heard you tell stories about God help me if I got help the police officer that ever pulls me over with a trunk full of legs.

I do it I we have a lot of legs that we have our our house looks sometimes like us to escape the horror movie, but we do what we go through a lot of prosthetic legs. What you do with the legs. When you're done with them sometimes outgrow like she's got lots of legs over. She's been a painting of 20 years. She goes the lot legs. There's a song that somewhere I want you think I want you think about that sentence. She sees my eyelid wrap it up.

I like apologizing for what you've done here. We want people to say that you can see humor in this coming. There are funny things that happened along the journey as a caregiver, and if you don't see the humor in it. Stick with us on the show long enough it will help because it's so important for you as a caregiver to laugh is really important for you to laugh and you don't see the humor you will burn out way.

Yes you will will be making a joke about you later how it's got out. But when grace is done with legs that she no longer needs. We have a place for those legs to go and if you know somebody who's an amputee.

Please please please write this down. Standing with hope.com standing with hope.com some years ago, 15, 16 years ago, we launch this whole program of providing prosthetic limbs to Gracie's fellow amputees in West Africa and part of that is we can recycle used limbs. Maybe you have a loved one passed away and you don't know what to do with the leg. Maybe you have somebody who a child is outgrown it over and Gracie's case she's gone that you know she's had to change legs over the years many times whatever the issue is. Please don't throw those things away. Please filter the prosthetic socks away the letters to sleeves the belts all the stuff we can recycle that goes to local prison in Tennessee run by a core civic and is one of their many faith-based programs.

Inmates volunteer to disassemble, use prosthetic limbs.

It's a mania because operation footloose is Internet footloose so we can recycle and it we don't have footloose Q have duly noted. I'm not expected but we we we take these limbs and we take take them all we know, sometimes the school level, but the foot, the knee. The pollen adapters nectars all that stuff can be reused again and then will build a custom fit socket that fits that patients amputated limb and use those recycle parts and then they can go and have a better quality of life walking literally. We literally lift them up that I love and X.3 it says is when Peter and John go to the temple that beggar was sitting there and I just thought of it. This Peter and John here on the show and and and Peter John go to the temple. The at the gate called beautiful. There is a young coming that management been there since forever.

It was born lame and he was just begging for money and Peter looked insane. Look at silver and gold have a number such as I have I given the name of Jesus Nasser stand up and walk and grab sainted by the hand and lifted him up at a guy started walking and leaping and praising God. We've done that we have literally done that with folks we have taken by the hand and lifted him up and sing just stand up and walk in they do they go walking and leaping and praising God. It's an extraordinary ministry from an extraordinary life. Gracie envisioned this many years ago. In this that stayed with hopes of pursuing sponsor of the show and the fact we have inmates and prison that does this with core civic and it's amazing, for they let us do that in inmates volunteer to do it. They love doing it gives him something positive to do with their hands and and they told me that will not normally make it before starting to look at me as I never do anything positive with my nose that I never even thought about crippled people and and and here we are doing this so it was a great program standing with hope.com which take advantage of it