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I had a client who's in her 90s, such a delightful person and she loves going to the zoo. So we're at the zoo and there was an old sky trim and it looks like a ski lift. It's open, you know, you could fall out. And however I'm looking at it and I'm seeing, you know, it's

not that far off the ground and look there's babies and toddlers and grandparents with their grandchildren and everyone looks so relaxed and happy.

I could go on this with my client.

Of course I could.

And so I turned to my client and let's just call her Mavis.

Turned to Mavis and I say, Mavis, would you like to go on that Sky Tram?

And she says, oh yes, oh yes.

I said great, let's get on so I get her out of the wheelchair into the lift and as soon as we touch off this panic attack that's in, where I just, all I can think about

is I'm going to fall out, she's going to fall out.

We are literally over the lions and the giraffes and all these animals and it's supposed to be so fun but I am gripping I'm sweating like crazy I'm

gripping the bar like crazy and curling up my toes and my eyes are so tightly shut.

But I'm saying to her, oh this is so nice, isn't this beautiful? And she's saying, oh yes, look, look! And I cannot open my eyes for the life of me.

And when we get to the halfway point I call out to the person who's

there, okay we're getting off, we're getting off and they say no stop stop and they're

waving their arms. You can't nobody can get off here. It's impossible. And I said we have to get off. It's an emergency. And so this poor teenager, you know, who's working says, okay, and they stop the whole thing, and we get off, and Mavis looks at me and says,

what's happening?

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