by Luke Vidic
MORGAN — It was a perfect day on Lake Seymour on Monday — not a cloud in the sky and the water was as smooth and clear as glass. So, David Wieselmann decided to go kayaking.
A month ago, the decision wouldn’t have been so easy to make.
Mr. Wieselmann suffered a spinal injury in 2010 and has been unable to walk. His movement is limited to the range of a wheelchair, and he required friends and neighbors to lift him from his wheelchair into his kayak. If no one else was around, Mr. Wieselmann couldn’t get into or out of his kayak, and on one occasion was stranded in the lake, waiting for friends to arrive to pull him out.
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