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I AM REALLY PISSED
- By mikey · Posted 12:33 am
- Discussion in Living your life · 0 replies
- The fact that I am REALLY PISSED perhaps won't come as any surprise. Yeah I really hate it that I am stuck in this F****** chair. But I am not pissed about that per se, because my feelings are such that ...
White stuff
- By goldy24k · Posted yesterday at 9:59 am
- Discussion in Living your life · 0 replies
- The weather man is talking about the white stuff. Now I have fond memories of snow but I want to know who actually likes the stuff? We can just enough to make thinga white. A few flakes would be nice ...
Need imput bizzare happenings at hospital
- By angelbrd67 · Posted November 17, 2009
- Discussion in Health matters · 8 replies
- Ok this is something I would like to discuss and get any and all imput from everyone. Matt was admitted into the hospital sunday night. He has a sepsis infection in his bladder. No flu or stones in his ...
COURAGE
- By tmichaelroche · Posted November 17, 2009
- Journal · 1 reply
- Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared, and how not to fear what ought not be feared. From this knowledge comes an inner strength that subconsciously ...
Matt in Hospital
- By angelbrd67 · Posted November 16, 2009
- Journal · 3 replies
- Last night Matt asked me to feel his head. It was on fire..he then started to tremor goose bumps head pain so we went through the steps for disreflexia first to rule out all his issues but the fever that ...
Finally home
- By Nina372 · Posted November 15, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- I am finally home after being in the hospital for a week. Last Friday I was sick all day and kept having black-outs. Around midnight I asked my mom to take me to the er because something felt very wrong ...
Publication
- By goldy24k · Posted November 15, 2009
- Discussion in Living your life · 1 reply
- Last Spring I had a story of mine published in an anthology called Blindness is not Black. The story is about some bubble gum I invent which allows me to float up to my sisters room. It's called Bubble ...
Looking for ideas to cope with partial paralysis pain
- By sailkjv · Posted November 11, 2009
- Discussion in Health matters · 4 replies
- I have partial paralysis affecting the front of my right leg and top of my foot from a spinal cord injury 31 years ago. Ever since, once or twice a year, I get electrifying pain somewhere in the paralyzed ...
Cecostomy for quadrapalegic?
- By proudmom2x · Posted November 10, 2009
- Discussion in Health matters · 0 replies
- Ok My daughter is 5 years old and has had a cecostomy for about a year now. It is wonderful. Well about 4 days after she had her surgery my Uncle whom is 50 years old had a 18 wheeler accident and rolled ...
NFCA webinar - Safe & Sound: How to Prevent Medication Mishaps
- By Amir · Posted November 10, 2009
- Discussion in Family, parents and caregivers · 0 replies
- Hello, Here is something that might be of interest for caregivers. The National Family Caregivers Association is hosting a free webinar titled "Safe & Sound: How to Prevent Medication Mishaps" which is ...
Decub from hell
- By pinkharleygurl · Posted November 5, 2009
- Discussion in Health matters · 6 replies
- Hello from beautiful downtown Austin Texas. It's been quite a while since I have visited this site. I hope all is well, especially you Mikey. I'm in the hospital, have been since Aug 18th (after a week ...
Antibiotics and blood sugar
- By Matt32 · Posted November 4, 2009
- Discussion in Health matters · 1 reply
- Is it possible for an antibiotic to cause your blood sugar to be extremely high? I ask because I had to be put on Amoxicillin for an infection last week and since being on it my blood sugar in the morning ...
15 months baby Hana Rehan afected spinal nurve inju;ry
- By Rehana · Posted November 3, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- My grand daughter Hana Rehan affected spinal nurve injury during in surgery in Karachi Pakistan not by hitting something but reaction of anithesia orany thing else during surgery After surgery she Paralyise ...
To: Pain From: Me
- By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 10 replies
- To: Pain From: Me Well hello pain, you might not want to hear this but you have out-stayed your welcome here in my body. You are the most annoying, agitating, distracting, way to needy, company that I ...
pots/dysautonomia
- By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 5 replies
- Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...
Urinary Tract Infection
- By DaveDempsey · Posted November 2, 2009
- Discussion in Health matters · 6 replies
- Hello All, I had a hemorrage to my T-4 about 10 years ago. I get chronic UTI's. I have grown resistant to oral antibiotics. I have a small bladder only holding 300 CC-white male. The Dr has recomended ...
THE HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY WAS SO FUN
- By LindsayBovshow · Posted November 1, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- I am so grateful to have such an amazing and successful life with great friends and family that are always around me. it helps to alway be having a great teim. LIFE IS GOOD! GOOD JOB! GOOD PEOPLE! and ...
The innocent
- By angelbrd67 · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 1 reply
- Years ago I was faced with a question when I was 5 months pregnant with my daughter. The Doctor said your child is deformed, she has an open spine it didn't close and she could have down syndrome or turners ...
685 Minus 1
- By mikey · Posted October 29, 2009
- Discussion in Living your life · 0 replies
- At around 9:30 am the call came. I was expecting it and in anticipation I had spent my sleep cycle unable to sleep. I had about 45 minutes to get up and I was going to just lay in bed for another 20 minutes ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 29 replies
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
