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Family, parents and caregivers
Caregiving is a job no one really applies for -- it just shows up and you deal with it. Connect here with others who care for a loved one; share your strategies and hear how others handle the physical and psychological stresses of caregiving. You can't really do it alone. Paralysis is most often a family issue; this is also the place to join a discussion about parenting children with paralysis.
Seeking Advice From Other Caregiver Parents
- By mikeysmom1 · New reply July 6, 2008
- 25 replies
- I was just reading over"Life & Choices",posted by SirVab in Health Matters.I keep wondering why, if Tony and his family could survive,even though they had few resources, why many of the Rehab Professionals ...
home health care and getting help.
- By goldenkeyjt · Posted July 1, 2008
- 0 replies
- what can we do get more help from from club or organizations it would help if we could like maybe get some to donate diapers, or pads, and care equipment ...
Thank you for all the replies.. the story continues
- By Friend4Life · New reply June 7, 2008
- 7 replies
- Hello, new user here. Not even sure if I am in the right place. I am the friend of a recent paralysis patient. We were on our bikes when as we crossed the street a speeding drunk driver hit Lee. I have ...
GOOD NEWS!
- By GailP · New reply June 7, 2008
- 4 replies
- My son, Patrick, who was injured on March 17th (incomplete T9) was transferred from the nursing home to Magee Rehab (Philadelphia) today! He will be evaluated and hopefully a candidate for Locomotor Therapy ...
Update on my Son!
- By GailP · Posted May 31, 2008
- 0 replies
- Patrick had a follow-up yesterday with the ortho surgeon. Patrick is starting to show willful movement of both legs. The Dr and the surgical team that worked on him ALL showed up to see Patrick. He was ...
update on my son
- By wendy0523 · New reply May 31, 2008
- 3 replies
- I just want to update everyone on my son's condition.He is done with rehab and has been for almost a year now. He is now walking with a walker and doesnt use the wheelchair anymore. He's just gotten his ...
care givers of spinal cord injurys
- By wendy0523 · New reply May 28, 2008
- 12 replies
- On July 16,2006, my oldest son, who was 20 at the time,was out partying with his so called best buddy and some other people.The best buddy started a fight with my son and left my son at a restraunt, so ...
Abilities Expo in Souther Cal
- By Lorenza1 · Posted May 22, 2008
- 0 replies
- Hello my Angeleno friends!! Please don't forget Abilities Expo is next week, May 30th through June 1st at the Aneheim Convention Center. Here is a link for details: http://www.abilitiesexpo.com/IAEBrandMan ...
Looking for support
- By GailP · New reply May 19, 2008
- 21 replies
- Hi ~ I'm new to this and this is my first post. My son (27) sustained a spinal cord injury on March 17th, 2008. He lives in SE Pennsylvania, and I live in Michigan. He was a student at the Art Institute ...
wound care
- By lheigham · New reply May 6, 2008
- 6 replies
- My husband has been paralyzed for the past 6 years and has suffered wounds, nerve pain cysts, headerotopic ossification along with bladder stones and many other problems since his injury. Three months ...
Isolation, first post
- By Marilee1 · New reply April 27, 2008
- 17 replies
- Hi to my fellow caregiving parents. This is my first post here and I am so hopeful that I can make some connections with a peer group. I have posted for years on carecure but I stopped because there was ...
Caregiving
- By ladybyrd043 · New reply April 19, 2008
- 10 replies
- Our son came home almost 2 months ago, Jan. 4. He is a c-4 to c-6 complete. He has no use of anything. He can only shrug his shoulders and bend his elbows, which are contracted and needing more exercise ...
Anyone willing to share some much needed advice?
- By zenaidapa · New reply March 18, 2008
- 8 replies
- Hi! I have been "lurking" here for months and I want to tell you all how much I appreciate all the wonderful information and advice I have found on this site! It has really been a Godsend at times ...
Saving your baby's umbilical cord
- By valenmsv · New reply February 22, 2008
- 8 replies
- Hi, I'm a 35 yr old sci patient. I suffered an L1 burst fracture 11 years ago. Since then, I have regained most of my mobility. I am very lucky. However, I still do not have bowel or bladder control ...
PBS show on stem cell research and SCIs
- By Matts-mom · Posted January 21, 2008
- 0 replies
- I saw a show on PBS the other day about a neurologist at Northwestern University who is doing some amazing research in an effort to cure SCIs. His daughter was paralyzed in a skiing accident and he is ...
Pregnancy and SCI
- By Cheryl125 · New reply January 12, 2008
- 5 replies
- My husband and I are thinking of starting a family very soon. I have a SCI and have asked many questions to my knowledgable OB/GYN, but I want to also ask questions to those women with SCI who have gone ...
ALS conference
- By Lorenza1 · Posted January 3, 2008
- 0 replies
- ALSA will hold a Leadership Development and Clinical Management Conference in South Cal in a couple of weeks. If anybody is interested, here is the link for additional information: http://www.alsa.org/healthcare/conferenc ...
Daughter paralized in minutes
- By myheartkayla · New reply December 27, 2007
- 9 replies
- Hello My daughter who is 15 stood up from her desk on Feburary 15 with a rubber band feeling around he waist has she began to walk out of class her left leg went completly numb then her right by the time ...
How do you find your staff, i.e, PCA's?
- By Tiffiny · New reply December 1, 2007
- 9 replies
- Do you have a tried yet true method to find great and reliable PCA's? I'd love to know. Please share! :) - Tiff ...
My 20 year old son in ICU from a morphine overdose
- By BradyzMom · New reply December 1, 2007
- 15 replies
- My 20 year old Quad son od on Morphine and is in ICU Posted Sunday August 5, 2007 at 05:32 AM EDT One of his "friends" gave him a morphine pill because he was complaing of shoulder pain. This did not ...
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