[QUAD-L] Fwd: [SCIC] Linda Young Miller and I need your help!

2015-04-05 Thread lwillis821
Lori, your story breaks my heart, and the sad and frightening thing is most of us are just one incident away from the same situation, including me. I've said it many times before...I don't know if it's worth it. Like the rest of us, I keep on keepin on. Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded

[QUAD-L] Binder and Colotomy

2015-04-05 Thread greg
Anyone with a colostomy also wear a abdominal binder? I can't find a binder that fits over one. Right now I just cut a hole in the binder, but it just frays apart real fast. Plus, the binder moves and can cut into the stoma. I am going to buy a new binder and just put it on over the stoma and

[QUAD-L] Quad Belly

2015-04-05 Thread greg
After my stoma my quad belly went down a lot, but it sure came back. Bigger than ever. Even a binder does nothing for it. When laying on my back, my stomach looks pretty flat. But once I sit up... it just flop out. It actually gets uncomfortable. Exercising really does nothing for that area,

Re: [QUAD-L] Quad Belly

2015-04-05 Thread Ed Tessier
My quad belly bothers me more than any other change in appearance that quadriplegia imposed. Gnarled fingers, atrophied legs, sunken chest? I can manage. But the slow expansion of my belly bothers me constantly. The fact that I can't seem to do anything to affect it is maddening. I know passing 40

Re: [QUAD-L] Binder and Colotomy

2015-04-05 Thread wheelchair
Have you consider a major rehab supply center? Best Wishes In a message dated 4/5/2015 9:54:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, g...@eskimo.com writes: Anyone with a colostomy also wear a abdominal binder? I can't find a binder that fits over one. Right now I just cut a hole in the binder,