During rehab I spent a lot of time thinking about how it would be on the outside world. I thought about how it would be seeing the world from a wheelchair and often wondered how easy it would be for someone as me to be reduced to life on four wheels.

I have always been a very active man and it scared me when I thought of all the things I wouldn't be able to do so rather than worry about what I wouldn't be able to do I started focusing on all the things I would be able to do.

Now and again I found inspiration from other spinal cord injury sufferers that go out and achieve the seemingly impossible. One of those people was a Canadian who climbed Mount Fuji on his handbike, he had a support team who walked along side him all the way to the top.

Inspired by the story I started scetching and ended up with a pencil doodle of a mad spinally cord injured figure zooming down the road in his wheelchair with the wind blowing in his hair.

When I got home I forgot about my doodles and after about a year I found them again tucked away in the cupboard. On finding them back I decided to do a bit of digital remastering on my trusty desktop and this is one of the end results.

I called the picture "Freewheeling Frank on his Titanium Horse". I remember thinking that when I got out I would make every effort to not let the wheelchair rule my life but instead I would rule the wheelchair and I am pleased to tell you that I have mastered the wheelchair and it doesn't rule my life, no instead I rule the wheelchair. The only things that get in my way now are the daily obstacles that get in the way of all wheelchair users but lets hope that with time and a little education the society at whole changes and that we are all offered equal chances in life and as many obstacles as possible can be avoided.

One of the other things that we were asked if we wanted to do during rehab was "creativity". I wasn't sure what I was supposed to expect from creativety so I decided to go on down to have a look. I was pleased to find all the paint, pencils, paper, clay, you name it was there and I was told that I could do what ever I wanted and given the instruction to use my imagination.

When they said to me "just use your imagination" I did and decided I would start making clay models and try to model some of the nurses on the Rehab ward and here they are. If any of the nurses that I modeled these on read this, please don't take offence because it isn't meant personally against any of you, I think you all do a great job and thanks to all of you for getting me ready for life on the outside.

If anyone else has got any doodles that they made in Rehab and they want to post them here then please email them to me and I will add them to the post. I am presently busy remastering a couple of the other pencil drawings that I made and as soon as they are ready I will add those too.