Archive for June, 2009
Disabled trapped in apartment
A woman in Canadian woman is trapped in her apartment for three days and counting because the elevator is broken. Her apartment is on the third floor and she has no way of using the stairs to go to the grocery store or even collect her mail. Man calls have gone to the building management [...]
Can the disabled escape nursing homes?
For years disabled people were forced to live in nursing homes. Even if they became well enough in hospitals to take care of themselves communities refused to accept them. Home owner associations created rules that made it all but impossible to live in a home in the neighborhood. Numerous attempts were made to sue the [...]
New cathetor bag connector
From time to time we run across a new product that we find so useful that we do a writeup on it. The Bioderm bladder control systems definitely fit into the writeup criteria. This company has developed a product that connects directly to the top of the male genitalia. A nighttime bag or day bag [...]
Disabled man has egg thrown while traveling in England
A disabled man that was traveling the Iarnrod Eireann on the Cort to Thurles line has been repeatedly harassed by the crew on the train. The man was given permission to travel on the train as long as he stayed in the food cars so there was room for everyone to move around. Unfortunately the [...]
Congress working on new long term disability bill
Congress is working on a new bill to give long term care to everyone that works. The bill allows those that have been injured to have nurses come into the home. As it stands now, critically injured people are sent home from the hospital with no medical care coverage. For the next 18 months the [...]
Computer-brain interface to give limb movement back
Scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital are in a pilot program to attach a computer to the brain of a patient with spinal cord injuries. The computer can interpret signals from the brain and then move either a mechanical arm and hand, or move the arm and hand of the individual. This is still very [...]
Carjacker almost kills disabled woman
In these days where we must all be careful, it is doubly so for the disabled. Crooks and other scum like to go after easy targets like people in wheelchairs or using walkers. They expect that the disabled person cannot fight back and they can steal whatever is on the person or their credit cards [...]
New procedure to gain back bowel control
Doctors working with spina bifida patients have found that by moving a nerve from the lower leg to the bowel area, they were able to gain back full control of both their urinary and bowel. The operation typically allowed some patients with spinal injuries to vigorously scratch an area on their leg to get their [...]
We are back on the air!
After 9 days in the hospital, I am back home and recuperating. My wife Laura gave everyone a quick rundown of the fun we were having at the hospital. Suffice it to say that without an advocate, there is little chance of you getting out of the hospital any better than you started. In my [...]
SCRN Webmaster is Fighting Medical System
Posted by Laura George, VP (aka…Roaring Mouse) Last Wednesday Webmaster/President of SCRN Greg George went into the hospital for partial paralysis to his left hand (3 hours); white lips; blue fingertips; fast respiration; and spasms. He was diagnosed with many issues but for the the concerns at hand – his shunt and neck. [...]
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