Tag: Family and Friends
Caregiving
You’ve lived with someone who is spinal cord injured for some time. Perhaps you’re feeling more tired, more blue, more isolated than you want...
Long-term Care Givers
For Better and For Worse
No one plans on spinal cord injury. “No one” includes you–the spouse, the family, the person who provides care–as well...
Finding Personal Care Assistants
How to Find, Hire & Keep Them
You’ve wrestled with the issue of attendant care, and decided that it’s finally time to get some help....
Personal Care Assistance
There are lots of reasons why people with disabilities decide to get more help. Some don't have a choice - because of the extent...
Alcohol Abuse
What do all of the following have in common?
increased muscle Spasticity
fractures
heart, liver, kidney, & brain damage
pressure sores
malnutrition
urinary tract infections
Answer:...
Am I Ready For A Van?
Most spinal cord injury survivors who are used to driving a car aren’t too excited about switching to a modified van. “They’re too big....
Bladder Cancer
You may have heard it from physicians, from family members who have been doing their reading, or from spinal cord injury survivors who go...
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for more than 30% of all of their cancers. While spinal cord injury itself...
Cholesterol
So you’ve heard cholesterol is bad. Don’t eat red meat. Eat more fish. Stay away from eggs. Don’t eat fat. Exercise a lot. Maybe...
Colostomies: A Radical Approach to Bowel Mangement
It freaks many people out, but to some spinal cord injury survivors, a colostomy is a perfectly reasonable way to manage those cranky bowels....
