It's time for another Kim/Daddy weekend.

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Every year I take Kim to one Auburn football game. This year we are going to my mother's old house (it's 24 miles from campus) on Thursday, and she has extracted a promise from me to take her shooting again.

Kim has been a long-time gun/knife nut. Pre-hit an run she was a very good pistol shot, once thoroughly embarrassing her boyfriend and a couple of his friends who were going to "teach her how to shoot." Post-injury, she has shot in progression over time a .22, .38 Sp, 9mm, .44 Sp, and a .45 ACP 1911, proclaiming the .45 her favorite (smart girl). She has done pretty well, to, and seems to actually relish recoil. So this weekend I am going to introduce her to 10mm and .44 magnum. I have no doubt she will handle them, especially since the .44 magnum will be from a 52 ounce revolver, a Magnum Research Shorty single action.

About three years after the accident, she cajoled a member of our church to take her for a ride on his Gold Wing, and I had to make a life-course decision. I was fearful of her ability to ride and hold on, as she was still wheelchair bound. I told the wife that we could keep her absolutely safe, like a little potted plant, or let her take risks and live life as fully as she could. I chose the latter, and she did very well on the ride. I have never regretted it, and fully intend to help her fulfill her desire to Bungee jump and to sky-dive. She extracts more joy from life, ( and gives more in return) than any able-bodied person I know of.

By the way, guess who won the timed wall climb at camp?
 
After meeting Kim a few times, I would think it would be harder for you to keep her from being adventurous than to just give in and let her go. She is truly an inspiration to anyone that gets the chance to talk to her. I think she will have a new favorite gun after shooting the .44 mag.:D Thank you for sharing stories of your amazing family.
 
That's great to read. I always enjoy your posts about Kim and her incredible personality. Kids don't get that way by accident. :thumbup:
 
Mike, that is truly awesome to read on all accounts. I'm so glad that you get to spend the weekend with Kim and that she's blessed with such an amazing father. You are a great man, Mike and I'm honored to call you friend. Tell Kim hi for me and can't wait to see you again. I really needed that right now (An uplifting story)
 
Please send Kim some of my love! I cannot wait to see her in June! :thumbup: Thanks for the posts that let us know how she is doing.
 
It sounds like you have an awesome weekend planned! Give Kim a huge hug from me and have an incredible time! I love having father/daughter time.... Those memories are the best to think back on :D Let us know how it went :thumbup:
 
A story overflowing with inspiration and intensity. We don’t get that every time. People having a fervent will and desire to truly live.
 
Well, she didn't get to shoot, as we found the range shut down undergoing extensive improvements. Great day for riding through the national forest, though.

Back at the house, we took the truck around the back side of our half-wooded pasture. In the bottom is a dense stand of twelve feet or so young pines. Kim stated that she would like to walk through it alone. I let her out and off she went. I drove along the edge so I could keep an occasional glimpse of her. She fell occasionally, but it was soft pinestraw and she doesn't have far to fall, so as she said, "no big deal."

At the edge of the woods the field of broom serge slopes upward about eighty yards to the gate, and she wanted to walk that, also. I drove on up to the gate, across the furrow-ridden old field. Looking back, I saw her on the ground, as she had a hard time walking across the old furrows. Repeatedly declining offers to come get her, she insisted on walking the entire distance, falling maybe two dozen times or so. Falling wasn't the point. Doing something she doesn't get to do every day was.

Later on in the truck, she laughed randomly several times. When I asked her what was funny, she said, "Nothing. Sometimes I just have to let the joy come out."
 
Kim is awesome with a huge heart. Such a sweetheart and an inspiration to overcome anything in life. The key is the attitude you choose :)
 
Later on in the truck, she laughed randomly several times. When I asked her what was funny, she said, "Nothing. Sometimes I just have to let the joy come out."[/QUOTE]

I love that! What a blessing she is.
 
MikeH said:
Well, she didn't get to shoot, as we found the range shut down undergoing extensive improvements. Great day for riding through the national forest, though.

Back at the house, we took the truck around the back side of our half-wooded pasture. In the bottom is a dense stand of twelve feet or so young pines. Kim stated that she would like to walk through it alone. I let her out and off she went. I drove along the edge so I could keep an occasional glimpse of her. She fell occasionally, but it was soft pinestraw and she doesn't have far to fall, so as she said, "no big deal."

At the edge of the woods the field of broom serge slopes upward about eighty yards to the gate, and she wanted to walk that, also. I drove on up to the gate, across the furrow-ridden old field. Looking back, I saw her on the ground, as she had a hard time walking across the old furrows. Repeatedly declining offers to come get her, she insisted on walking the entire distance, falling maybe two dozen times or so. Falling wasn't the point. Doing something she doesn't get to do every day was.

Later on in the truck, she laughed randomly several times. When I asked her what was funny, she said, "Nothing. Sometimes I just have to let the joy come out."
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Kim is such an amazing person with so much heart! I love to hear she is doing well. She is a very strong person, there is no denying. Sometimes you DO just have to let the joy come out :thumbup:
 
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