Hi Linda,
How tragic, was there something mentally wrong with him. I'm so sorry you
had to go through that. I had heard of this before but never talked to
anybody that experienced. I bet you could write a story about that for other
people of the signs so it doesn't happen to them. How di
That was really cool to see a picture of you when you were first injured?
Is that you in the picture?
Good-looking!
How old were you?
Dana
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On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was 1st to get on and last to get off. I always felt sorry for
the people behind us while they had to wait for all that
transferring but on the other hand, it was embarrassing as 'I' was
the hold up.
they should pre-board you so you
hey i had an upper resp. infection recently as well. i am so thankful
it didn't get too far into my lungs. it was hard enough coughing
everything up w/out it being in my lungs. coughing is a bitch as a
quad! i had my infection for well over a month -- the longest i've
ever been sick! what d
Doncha just love the old strykers...??? That was MY real love too...
Take a look see ->>> _Dave's Stryker Bed_
(http://ocgrands.com/stryker/index.shtml)
Dave
In a message dated 3/14/2007 2:22:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Dan,
Were you on a
Hi Veranda..these are fantastic questions! All things I had to consider,
too. I'm a Paul, a 43 year-old c5/6 complete, injured 11/03 in a car accident
and now driving for 8 months in a power chair. To address your issues:
1. Never park in a place where someone could block your lift/ramp.
Whew, you have a lot of good question and you haven't turn the key yet, lol.
You will be entering a driver's evaluation program and be evaluation for the
proper controls and vehicle, based on the test. While you are being tested
for driving, ask your instructor and see if you can do some tr
John, you are absolutely right, no one can bitch about anything unless it meets
your standards. Dan T.
kaye allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John, I often need a good healthy dose of rage, seriously. What papers/blogs
do you read? Especially those that are disability related?
Thx
-k
p.s. t
John, I often need a good healthy dose of rage, seriously. What
papers/blogs do you read? Especially those that are disability related?
Thx
-k
p.s. that's not to say that those thoughtless disabled parking pirates don't
piss me off royally.
On 3/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
I certainly learned something from that one ;-)
On 3/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kk,
That is amazing, somebody was watching over you. I heard of the guy that
did that was a para and became a quad. I know a quad, who backed out and
the lip was not out and he had a conc
I really hate the parking arguement because it takes us away from real issues
like, in 2006 I got a 20 some dollar increase in each months check. Only now
I'm on plan D and the state of ohio no longer buys gloves. Plan D last year
cost me 34 dollars a month and I spent 388 dollars on latex glove
Most parking lots are considered "private" property & police won't come on the
grounds.
KK
Dave, as an afterthought, I don't have the tongs but I have the recessed
impressions from them in my skull. Dan T.
"David K. Kelmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi Dan,
Were you on a Stryker Frame? I was on one 3 months getting turned every two
hours. I still have the Tongs that were
Dave, Yes I was on a Stryker frame. Turning every two hours which caused the
hallucination that I was stuck in a pipe. Sounds weird doesn't it. That was
one of my more pleasant hallucinations. Some of the real awful hallucinations
I still remember today, 30 years later. What a nightmare. D
The abuse of handicapped parking is an outrage! I can't tell you how many
times I heard "I'll just be a minute". I have had many face to face
encounters. I gave one lady some information about handicapped parking and she
crumpled it up and threw it out the window as she watched me watch her.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325955.400&feedId=brain_rss20
Lack of sleep hits night owls hard
17 March 2007
FEELING groggy because of lost sleep? Blame your genes. People with two copies
of
one variant of a gene that helps control our body clocks turn out to suffer
worse
cognit
Yes, for about 7 years and then was hit by a car.
Bill_J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did the cat survive? LOL
Bill age 56
C6 Incomplete since 7/20/68
Leesburg, FL
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
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From:RichardKratt
To: [EMAIL PROTE
In a message dated 3/14/2007 2:45:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My paraplegic buddy was trying to clean an accident off his lift and he
flipped backwards from the highest position and landed on the of his head. Its
a
miracle he didnt break his neck, lol Hes in maj
My estranged husband shot my with a 357 magnum, severed my spinal cord at the
C4-5 as I was returning home after surgery. After shooting me he killed
himself. It's sad & a waste of life. This was Nov 7, 1987.
- Original Message
From: Dan T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; qu
In a message dated 3/14/2007 5:37:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He said he'd be right out. I said, "Wait a minute, you want me to wait out
here in the parking lot for you? No, please move."
Good for you! Sure does make ya hot, doesn't it.
**
Kaye,
Ya gotta be careful having sex during a street race. LOL
Bill age 56
C6 Incomplete since 7/20/68
Leesburg, FL
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
- Original Message -
From: kaye allard
To: Tim Syfert
Cc: quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:10 PM
S
MessageNow there's a message for ya. LOL
Bill age 56
C6 Incomplete since 7/20/68
Leesburg, FL
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
- Original Message -
From: Eric W Rudd
To: quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Poll
My church
Did the cat survive? LOL
Bill age 56
C6 Incomplete since 7/20/68
Leesburg, FL
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
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From: Richard Kratt
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Poll
tri
I just went to the post office - parked up front in a HC spot separated from
the next one by a 4 ft wide yellow hash marked sidewalk. Came out to find a
pickup parked half in the next HC spot and half on the sidewalk thus
blocking me from my ramp. I saw the guy walking up and asked him to
Hi Dan,
Were you on a Stryker Frame? I was on one 3 months getting turned every two
hours. I still have the Tongs that were in my head turning that time. They
somehow slipped into my wife's purse after they took them out of my head.
Speaking of Stryker Frames makes me feel strang
You got to watch that premarital sex. I was told that load of crap too.
best wishes
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Poll
According to the deacon at our church at the t
Ive got family in highridge, Mike and Verna Hucke. Thats not far from me here
in St. Peters
ron
I was 19 and driving a car I had just bought on a street where drunks have the
right of way. Obviously, If I had known a 3 ton buick was going to run over my
1800lb carmen ghia I would have stayed home for the next week and given up
driving there and then. I know how hard it must be when folks a
See, if I hadn't just taken 10mgs I would have known that!!
Or, its brain damage!!
Its not my fault!!
I knew it was synthetic something adictive, thanks Bill!
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L
This was yesterday. God had his hands over my son because he has some cuts,
scraps, and swelling and soreness, but is home with no major injuries!
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 30 Years Post
Texas, USA
Car accident sends officer to hospital
Marc
Your probably right, but why do I have to take methadone to get off vicodon?
john
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quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Sleep aids??
John..
Amazing wasn't the word I was going to use, but I understand.
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com
Sent: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Burns
I'm healing up a few burns on my ankle from sitting too close to my sp
I wouldn't say mad at God. More confused or I thought 'Man, I must have
done something to piss the big guy off!" More ironically, I was working for
my father-in-law pouring concrete for our 'new' church. The new building is
what fell.
Eric W Rudd
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Eric , after your church fell on you, did that make you bitter or mad at
god ? It seems that would try ones faith in ways of Job in the bible. I guess
things can happen to anyone anywhere at any given timethe bible does
say the Rain falls on the Just as well as Unjust. If this que
Hi Ron,
You live about 40 miles (probably less as the crow flies) north of my brother
in Highridge. I was born about 65 miles Southeast of you, on the other side of
the River, in Redbud, IL. My mother's family are from that area. She was a
Kane from Kane County, the County the prison is
My church collapsed on me. 05/09/1997
Eric W Rudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Merrill,
It sounds like you've got a pretty good grip on this Quadhood that is now our
lives. I'm glad to hear you've learned how to forgive, it's a hard lesson, but
a very important one in this life! Stay strong.
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 30 Years Post
That is a new one that I never heard about. When I was in rehab at Santa
Clara Hospital, the lady next to me fell off of her lounge chaise and was an
incomplete C4/5. Another man, who was totally blind, fell off the roof of
his house. When asked why he was up there, he replied that he was getting a
Hi Dana
Have you tried this speech recognition that is built into Windows Vista?
That is what I am using today. I use Dragon on my desktop, but am
experimenting with speech recognition with Vista. It works magnificently in
a quiet environment, but turns on too easily with ambient noise. I am going
I had a Swing Arm lift in my van, and my Attendant lowered the bar too far
and I flipped over backwards. I certainly had a sore head for a few days.
Joan
From: kaye allard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:02 PM
To: RONALD L PRACHT
Cc: quad-list@eskimo.com
Subject: Re
In a message dated 3/13/2007 6:04:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would just like to know what caused members of this message board to
become quadriplegics or paraplegics?
Boating accident...C6/7
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Hi Kaye,
Just my thinking, but I'd ask the deacon for a second opinion, at a different
church!
With Love,
CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 30 Years Post
Texas, USA
kaye allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
According to the deacon at our church at the time- I broke my nec
In a message dated 3/14/2007 11:45:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First off I will be driving soon for the 1st time in almost 11 yrs. Of
course I've been looking at parking spaces. Many have no line's on side &
wanted
to know what you do? Do you take up two parkings
Hi Naomi,
I was white-water rafting on the Upper Salt River in April of '76. I lost
the raft and went into the river and hit the front of my head on something. I
broke the C4-5 vertebras, drowned, and then was pulled from the water by an
ex-Marine medic trained in Vietnam. He did CPR an
tripped over my cat on Thanksgiving eve in 1992 been a C3 C4 ever since.
Richard Kratt
At 12:10 PM 3/13/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would just like to know what caused members of this message board
to become quadriplegics or paraplegics?
I became a quadriplegic due to an illness that
Waterskier encounters sandbar July 18, 1976, 18 years old. Flown to
Northwestern Memorial in Chicago and awakened as my head was being drilled to
set the tongs. Tough times, hallucinations, breathing difficulties etc. Dan T.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would just like to know what caused m
Happy birthday professor X, I have not been on my space for a while. I hope
you had a good birthday and did something that you really enjoy, that is
what I try to do. Last night I went out to eat to have my favorite meat
beside
seafood. I really like Ted Montana's restaurant. They make
Greg,
That festival sounds really fun is specially seeing ostrich races and Rick
Springfield. I wanted to see him a month or so ago and they were out of
tickets. I love concerts. So far I have tickets for Rod Stewart, , The Fray
and
John Mayer. I think it's cool that lot of the older ba
Hey gang. Hope your day is going well. I have a few question's that maybe some
of you guys that drive & have electric wheelchairs could help me with.
First off I will be driving soon for the 1st time in almost 11 yrs. Of course
I've been looking at parking spaces. Many have no line's on si
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Dana - that was from Kaye not me. I am afraid of that happening to me.
That is truly the stuff of nightmares.
KK
Hi, Lucinda, yes me and Ron know each other from this list..There are a few
more from this general area too..Are you near here also? Yep, I love the
Cardinals and like our Rams football too. Yes, Many restaurants down by the
U-city Loop. I'n time you may feel more like travelingI
In a message dated 3/13/2007 11:35:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I love the St. Louis Cardinals
That used to be Chicagp"s southside Cardinals at one time, many years ago.
W
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Kk,
That is amazing, somebody was watching over you. I heard of the guy that
did that was a para and became a quad. I know a quad, who backed out and the
lip was not out and he had a concussion and problems remembering things, but
it was OK after time.
That would be so terrifying, I would
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