Re: [QUAD-L] Unidentified subject!----Spam
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[QUAD-L] AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone
Perhaps you know of this already, but I thought I'd pass it along! Subject: AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone Source: Apple Hot News New York Times columnist David Pogue reports on AssistiveTouch, an amazingly thoughtful iOS 5 feature that makes it possible to complete Multi-Touch gestures using one finger or a stylus. Writes Pogue: I doubt that people with severe motor control challenges represent a financially significant number of the iPhone's millions of customers. But somebody at Apple took them seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the barriers to using an app phone. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/apples-assistivetouch-helps-the-di sabled-use-a-smartphone/
Re: [QUAD-L] AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone
Sweet! At 03:39 PM 1/20/2012, Julie said something that elicited my response: Perhaps you know of this already, but I thought I'd pass it along! Subject: AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone Source: Apple Hot News New York Times columnist David Pogue reports on AssistiveTouch, an amazingly thoughtful iOS 5 feature that makes it possible to complete Multi-Touch gestures using one finger or a stylus. Writes Pogue: I doubt that people with severe motor control challenges represent a financially significant number of the iPhone's millions of customers. But somebody at Apple took them seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the barriers to using an app phone. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/apples-assistivetouch-helps-the-disabled-use-a-smartphone/http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/apples-assistivetouch-helps-the-disabled-use-a-smartphone/ Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ~President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Re: [QUAD-L] Drowning
I heard this - it's very sad indeed. I have, and take care of a pool in my power chair and I am very careful now after backing one of my six wheels over the edge backing up too far. I never wear a belt tying me in partly because of drowning fear AND I have tipped over frontwards coming down my van ramp when the door stop yanked my hand off the joystick thus slamming the brakes on while I was going front wards downhill... luckily, my son was there to pick me up off the hot driveway in a Phoenix summer. AZDAVE _daveoconnell.com_ (http://daveoconnell.com/) In a message dated 1/20/2012 7:05:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, g...@eskimo.com writes: I heard a quad died this week from drowning after falling into a pool in his chair. That would just suck being seat-belted in your chair. I know there is a group in AZ that takes quads sailing and they have a rule of no seat belts on when near the water. Greg
[QUAD-L] Butt Sore
I've had a sore on my butt for months now. It was not wide, butt it was deep (7cm) I think. I've been going to a wound clinic and it's down to only (2cm), butt it seams to have stalled. It's just right and above my tail bone. I think it's from bed not my chair. It goes in, then tunnels sideways. I sleep partly on that side, well... did. Though I did sit slightly tilted a lot. I'm going to get pressure mapped again just to check. I still get up in my chair every day, I'm just reclining a lot. I know it would heal faster if I stayed in bed, even if it's not caused by my chair. I'm sure it gets some pressure there sitting up. I just couldn't stand laying in bed that long. Greg
Re: [QUAD-L] Butt Sore
same here. This is my first sore in my lifetime. It's right over my ischemia. It's a stage II. I cannot stay in bed because it makes me very weak. So, I have to get in my chair no matter what. I went to the wound clinic and they debrided it. Now I am treating it every day with an ointment that dissolves dead tissue. Almost all the dead tissue is now gone. So, I'm hoping the wound will slowly close up. Right now it is 3 cm x 30 cm. Wish me luck! Dan At 09:23 PM 1/20/2012, greg said something that elicited my response: I've had a sore on my butt for months now. It was not wide, butt it was deep (7cm) I think. I've been going to a wound clinic and it's down to only (2cm), butt it seams to have stalled. It's just right and above my tail bone. I think it's from bed not my chair. It goes in, then tunnels sideways. I sleep partly on that side, well... did. Though I did sit slightly tilted a lot. I'm going to get pressure mapped again just to check. I still get up in my chair every day, I'm just reclining a lot. I know it would heal faster if I stayed in bed, even if it's not caused by my chair. I'm sure it gets some pressure there sitting up. I just couldn't stand laying in bed that long. Greg Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. - John F. Kennedy
Re: [QUAD-L] Butt Sore
whoops! I meant 3 x 3 cm. At 10:01 PM 1/20/2012, Dan said something that elicited my response: same here. This is my first sore in my lifetime. It's right over my ischemia. It's a stage II. I cannot stay in bed because it makes me very weak. So, I have to get in my chair no matter what. I went to the wound clinic and they debrided it. Now I am treating it every day with an ointment that dissolves dead tissue. Almost all the dead tissue is now gone. So, I'm hoping the wound will slowly close up. Right now it is 3 cm x 30 cm. Wish me luck! Dan At 09:23 PM 1/20/2012, greg said something that elicited my response: I've had a sore on my butt for months now. It was not wide, butt it was deep (7cm) I think. I've been going to a wound clinic and it's down to only (2cm), butt it seams to have stalled. It's just right and above my tail bone. I think it's from bed not my chair. It goes in, then tunnels sideways. I sleep partly on that side, well... did. Though I did sit slightly tilted a lot. I'm going to get pressure mapped again just to check. I still get up in my chair every day, I'm just reclining a lot. I know it would heal faster if I stayed in bed, even if it's not caused by my chair. I'm sure it gets some pressure there sitting up. I just couldn't stand laying in bed that long. Greg Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. - John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind...War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. - John F. Kennedy
