Tyler’s reflections

I have been taller than normal for as long as I can remember. Usually this involves me folding myself into small car backseats and leaning down to hear what shorter people say when I can’t hear them. Upon seeing Caleb for the first time it was hard for me to put myself into his shoes and to even wrap my head around the struggles he would face in his day to day life. After that first site visit I went crazy on Google, simply looking at what solutions exist out there that would simply enable Caleb to live life. I was surprised to see some ingenious inventions and solutions to some of the problems, and other apparatus that I am sure could be executed better. There are special bikes, desks, keyboards and even car petal extenders for when Caleb turns 16. I am excited to see the ideas that our class can/have come up with to improve Caleb and his family’s quality of life, and I know that they will enable them to take the steps to enabling Caleb to simply live life.
The team I am on is Landscaping, and as we have been meeting and talking, I have been working on drawing up a rough set of initial landscaping blueprints and putting our ideas onto paper. It has involved a lot of erasing and redrawing over and over as we talk our way through meeting all of our objectives and addressing Caleb’s needs. And I know that there will be a lot of reworking still to come in the future, but I eagerly anticipate when those ideas will finally move from paper and into reality.
-Tyler R. Knorr