Perhaps, A Day In The Life Of A Quad.
Best Wishes
In a message dated 8/23/2013 6:48:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Ron,
I think you, and a few more of us, should record our years of
knowledge, and put it on YouTube. Title it something like "How to surviving a
broken neck" "What a Newley SPINAL CORD INJURY'D person should & shouldn't do"
"10 steps to dealing with insurance" Anything along those lines. Bobbie
Smile Everyday
On Aug 22, 2013, at 11:51 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]_
(mailto:[email protected]) > wrote:
I wont go in to my personal opinion on things such as stem cell therapy,
acupuncture, voodoo or sun gods because whatever a person needs to do to
deal with a spinal cord injury in a positive way is a good thing. What I will
say is probally the best advice any newly injured person can get. When you
get injured and are in a rehab setting for usually at least three months
you have a window of opportunity to figure out vital things needed to be a
success at living with sci. Learning to tranfer, catherize, feed oneself are
a few as well as how you are going to build a ramp at your existing home or
you may need to move somewhere else that can be modified. soak up all this
information, work hard, write notes on people that can help you down the
road. Once your out of the hospital the two things that will make or break
you in my opinion are getting involved in a college and either getting a
vehicle modified for driving or transport, depending on function level. These
two things alone along with what you learned in rehab and family support
will determine how successful your new life is going to be. This is the new
you and that isnt necessarily a good or bad thing it just is. Its a chance
to start over in any case and build new. This window of opportunity slowly
closes and you are left with what you learned, wrote, adapted and so on. If
you waste the first few years worrying about things like stem cells I
believe you will be sorry. If I were involved with these sci magazines, I
would write a three page special on what to do after you have a spinal cord
injury. Im so angry at times at what people told me to do when I was first
injured that was foolish and Im paying the price now.I hope someone can take
something I said and make it useful to a newly injured, scared person. Sci
is not the end, its just the beginning of a journey.
Ron out of St. Louis c7 almost 16 yrs post
From: Don Price <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) >
To: Don Price <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) >;
"[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) " <[email protected]_
(mailto:[email protected]) >
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Anyone have stem cell therapy?
Some info I got about Stem Cell Therapy:
Trish Stressman-She has a blog where she talks about stem cell research.
http://www.stemcelltherapy.tv/tag/trish-stressman/.
Trish’s blog with her contact info- http://tstressman.blogspot.com/
email- [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected])
Also here’s an article about Trish as well from the local paper in 2011-
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_21eb2e96-3959-54de-bbd5-478c1121c26f.
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From: Don Price <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) >
To: "[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) "
<[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) >
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:25 PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] Anyone have stem cell therapy?
Please email me if you have experience, good or bad, with stem cell
therapy.
Thanks,
Don.
>From my friend Karen:
I know this is probably a long shot but have any of you had stem cell
therapy done? I have a young man who is interested in checking into it more
and
would like to talk with someone who has had it done before. I’m drawing a
blank so if you or someone you know has had it done, can you please let me
know and I’ll put you in contact with him.
Thanks!
Karen
Karen Halgren
Community Resource Specialist
Az Spinal Cord Injury Association
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