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- By tammysci · New reply yesterday at 11:48 am
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- Over the past 15 years I have struggled with pain and it can be very frustrating. When I wake up, the first 15 minutes of my day are the worst. I even bought a new mattress this year to try to help my ...
- By tammysci · New reply November 20, 2008
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- In the last couple of months people have asked me what I miss about my life before my injury. The answer is everything! How could I not miss things, it changed everything about how I thought my future ...
- By tammysci · New reply November 18, 2008
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- Most people have witnessed people parking illegally in a handicap spot, and maybe have even wondered what their disability is? If you have a disabled placard/license plate, you probably have heard some ...
- By CanadaNuse · Posted November 17, 2008
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- A lot has been happening on the home front. Ash's medical team including mental health are changing her dosage of medications, times given etc. In hopes that the current combination of medications will ...
- By CanadaNuse · New reply November 17, 2008
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- There has been alot going on, since our last post, and honestly I don't know where to start. We had over TEN doctor visits and still not closer to anything. But we keep on getting more clinical DX for ...
- By Brian · New reply November 16, 2008
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- When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...
- By tammysci · New reply November 14, 2008
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- Veteran's Day was not a day that meant much to me personally until I started meeting veterans coming back from Iraq. I was surprised to find out that the amount deaths because of the war in Iraq was 4193 ...
- By tammysci · New reply November 14, 2008
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- I have read many different blogs from people with various disabilities about their frustrations with people who abuse handicap parking. I have wanted to start a handicap parking enforcement program for ...
- By tammysci · New reply November 12, 2008
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- Traveling Tips Part 1: Renting a car In the past 15 years since I have been using a wheelchair, traveling has never been easy, but I don’t let it stop me. Just a few weeks ago I had to go to Atlanta ...
- By tammysci · Posted November 3, 2008
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- When you use a wheelchair it can be hard to find accessible apartments and housing. Over the last 10 years, I have always been someone that rented an apartment and at one time I even had a small house ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 29, 2008
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- According to a website on the census of how many people have disabilities of some sort in the United States; are about 58 million people. With that amount of people affected by disabilities in the United ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 24, 2008
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- I know that stem cell research is a very controversial subject among people with disabilities, but I was forwarded this link on the candidate’s views on Stem Cell Research. If you are not informed on ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 21, 2008
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- On September 24th, I wrote a blog called "TIRED OF FIGHTING FOR MY RIGHTS FOR WHEELCHAIR ACCESS!” I wanted to update people on the situation. I just received a call from the property manager and they ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 16, 2008
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- In life, we all have people that inspire us, and sometimes they don’t always realize how much. I hear from a lot of people that say I inspire them, and while that is a compliment, I feel it has a lot ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 14, 2008
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- When I was first injured, it took 6 months for me to connect with another female in a wheelchair to ask her women related issues about spinal cord injury. This happens to a lot to newly injured women ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 11, 2008
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- For years I have always tried so hard to be very careful about not running over people’s feet in my wheelchair, especially their toes. Heck, if it happens, I will always feel bad. I feel like I need to ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 9, 2008
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- Have you ever noticed that when you are in a wheelchair, people just stop and stare? I always notice people staring at me when I am taking apart my wheelchair and putting it in my car. I also notice it ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 7, 2008
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- How many times in your life have you gone to a local football game at a high school, attended a professional baseball team game in your local town or in my case growing up, attending Monster Truck shows ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 6, 2008
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- Does anyone ever get tired of fighting for your rights that we are entitled to, for wheelchair access to public places? I know this is just one of many things that the American with Disabilities Act covers ...
- By tammysci · New reply October 1, 2008
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- It is hard to believe that Christopher Reeve is no longer with us, and of course the loss of his wife Dana as well! Today would have been his 56th birthday. He has done so much for the disability community ...
