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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Greetings from AC National Conference!

Today we arrived in Orlando, FL for the National Conference of the Amputee Coalition. This will be a well-attended event, with resources, courses, vendors, and loads of activities for attendees. The event opened today with peer mentoring seminars, an instructional semiar for therapists and meetings. The conference is being held at the Renaissance Orlando Sea World. -It's a beautiful venue with friendly accommodating staff. Speaking of accommodating, the hotel has pools and hot tubs.... all equipped with lifts to make these amenities accessible. Poolside this afternoon, I enjoyed the comraderie and networking. It's not too late to register for this conference, which runs through Sunday. The exhibit hall  opens Thursday at 5:30 p.m. -I will be found there through Saturday helping at the Handsprng/POA table. -Please come by and say 'hello'!    
 
 

http://www.amputee-coalition.org
 

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