# Pancho Ramirez > Personal website ## Posts - [Coming Home After 27 Years](https://panchoderancho.com/2026/05/28/coming-home-after-27-years/): I have been back in my hometown in Mexico for almost five months now, and even writing that sentence fills me with emotion. - [Returning to my roots](https://panchoderancho.com/2025/11/01/returning-to-my-roots/): I’m launching an online fundraising campaign. - [How I Control The Robot Arm](https://panchoderancho.com/2024/03/09/robot-arm/): After almost three years of training with the dot and exoskeleton, we started training with a robotic arm in a virtual environment for some time. - [Exoeskeleton](https://panchoderancho.com/2024/03/03/exoeskeleton/): ’ve been a little too busy doing other things and haven’t updated my website for several months now; that’s terrible! - [Empowering Journeys: Milestones | Celebrations | Challenges](https://panchoderancho.com/2023/09/10/empowering-journeys-milestones-celebrations-challenges/): It was 2021, and new and exciting things have unfolded since then. Both the Speech Decoding and Robotics teams revealed exceptional and highly successful work. - [My First Power Wheelchair | Part 2](https://panchoderancho.com/2023/06/07/my-first-power-wheelchair-part-2/): On the first day, I was officially approved to go out on my own. I remember I went to the Farmers Market. - [My First Power Wheelchair](https://panchoderancho.com/2023/04/03/my-first-power-chair/): I always wished to have a power wheelchair since I was in Healdsburg Hospital. I was lying down, and my bed was by the window. - [College Aspirations](https://panchoderancho.com/2023/01/30/college-aspirations/): In 2008, I wanted to attend college and improve my English skills. It was going to be impossible for me, or I thought, to go to campus in person. - [Looking Forward To My New Home](https://panchoderancho.com/2022/12/17/looking-forward-to-my-new-home/): January 2007 arrived, and it was time for me to transfer to my new facility. I wanted to leave but wanted to stay at the same time. - [Back To The Hospital](https://panchoderancho.com/2022/11/16/relapse/): I woke up from a coma about a week later; DIOS MIO!! What a terrible experience! - [Discharged From The Hospital](https://panchoderancho.com/2022/08/26/discharged/): A week went by, and it was time to remove the stitches from my belly. I was very happy. I was beginning to eat and swallow, not too much hard food, either. - [My Fate Changed Here](https://panchoderancho.com/2022/08/26/the-accident/): It was Sunday morning, June 21 or 22, 2003. My friend and I had a terrible hungover from the night before; we spent it drinking in downtown Windsor. - [How Everything Started](https://panchoderancho.com/2022/04/29/heading-towards-disgrace/): Hello! I'm Francisco "Pancho" Ramirez, from Michoacán, Mexico. I came to the USA at the age of 17, in March 1999. ## Pages - [Memories](https://panchoderancho.com/memories/) - [Personal Journey](https://panchoderancho.com/personal-story/): I have been back in my hometown in Mexico for almost five months now, and even writing that... - [Contact](https://panchoderancho.com/contact/) - [Who am I?](https://panchoderancho.com/who-am-i/): Hello! I’m Pancho Ramirez, a man from Michoacán, México. I spent 27 years living in the US. - [Researchers](https://panchoderancho.com/researchers/): He is the surgeon on the BCI (brain-computer interface) study at the University of San Francisco, CA. - [Home](https://panchoderancho.com/): Welcome to my website. I’m Pancho Ramirez from Michoacán, Mexico. ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/panchoderancho.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)