I love hearing your story Lori. What happened to your father? What did you do
after your mother died for care?How did you get involved with school in those
dark ages for disabled?
Ron
On Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:35 PM, Lori Michaelson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Same as Larry. None because I was flat on my back for the longest time with a
tracheotomy and a halo. I first could only get up any manual chair (this was
1980) and did not get my first (Everest & Jennings) wheelchair until much
later.
My mother was dying of cancer so she sent both of my sisters up to where I was
at at rehab at Sunnyview Hospital in upper New York State to learn my care
before I went home.
I don't know if they sent me home early because of my mother deteriorating
rapidly or because it was time for me to do so.
I came home in November of 1980. Before going to rehab I was first in ICU for
around 3 months or a little longer near by my home and then after needing my
neck fused (and still having a tracheotomy) I was moved to another nearby
hospital that had a very small rehab unit for me to receive range of motion,
etc. but all of this time I was flat on my back. I was also there at the
hospital a total of 3 or 4 months before I went to rehab.
I was injured at age 15 and did not come home until I was 16 1/2. A total of 13
months. I then lost my mother only 6 months to pancreatic cancer that she
fought for a long long time. It took her a long time to get diagnosed as well.
I remember her getting sick before my accident but she just thought it was the
flu or a bug or something because she had periods of nausea (unexplained) and
probably some other things but being only 14 and wrapped up in my own teenage
life I wasn't paying too much attention. Then my accident happened and it still
took her a long time to get diagnosed after I was an inpatient and diagnosed as
a quadriplegic.
I lost my father when I was only 13 so that was a terrible terrible terrible
terrible terrible 3 years. 1978, 1979 and 1981.
While I was in rehab my mother had an addition built onto my one sister's home
and purchased a brand-new full-size Dodge van for my transportation.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Larry Willis <[email protected]> wrote:
None. I couldn't even feed myself.
Larry WillisRetired and proud of it
Begin forwarded message:
Resent-From: [email protected]
From: Bobbie Humphreys <[email protected]>
Date: January 28, 2017 at 5:09:05 PM EST
To: [email protected]
Subject: [QUAD-L] Rehab/housework
When you al were in rehab, how much training did you get for doing housework,
like cooking 🍳 laundry, vacuuming, making a bed or grocery shopping 🛒?
I had many classes, in OT, on how to do all of the above when I was at Kessler
Insitute.
Bobbie
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