Re: [TMIC] NSCIA Webinars/Choosing Wheelchair

2012-08-08 Thread Betty Clark
Just curious... has anybody else caught the new reality show "Push Girls" on the Sundance cable channel? It features 4 paralyzed women in wheelchairs (plus a new 19-yr-old teen) - each with a different severity of injury. They are absolutely amazing with the things they accomplish and the confi

Re: [TMIC] NSCIA Webinars/Choosing Wheelchair

2012-08-08 Thread akua
Jim: I miss the water terribly! I swam and kayaked before T/M, so I share your desire to be in our first medium, again. You're blessed to have folks to work it out with you! I look forward to hearing of your return to water. Akua

Re: [TMIC] NSCIA Webinars/Choosing Wheelchair

2012-08-08 Thread Cindy McLeroy
Jim, check out Cody Unser's First Step Foundation website. http://www.cufsf.org/ . Cody has had TM since she was 12 and has accomplished many amazing things. You might be interested in the Scuba Diving she does and is working with returning vets on how to scuba diving. Cindy - Origin

Re: [TMIC] NSCIA Webinars/Choosing Wheelchair

2012-08-08 Thread James Berg
Akua--Thank you for the web sites. I had never thought about doing "Wheelies" and how learning the balance of it would help me daily with visiting friends who have no ramps for getting over thresholds. Now I am trying to learn how to do it. freedom, that is what it is all about. I am going di

[TMIC] NSCIA Webinars/Choosing Wheelchair

2012-08-08 Thread akua
http://www.spinalcord.org/resource-center/askus/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=1412 http://www.spinalcord.org/resource-center/askus/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=1728 Akua