Re: [QUAD-L] midwheel chairs

2009-11-03 Thread Barbara Vedder
I love my midwheel chair. It takes a little while to get used to driving something different when you¹ve been driving the other way for a good deal of time but driving it is so much better for me now. It allows you to navigate in smaller or cramped areas in a very significant way. I believe

Re: [QUAD-L] Re: Fw: The New Health-Care Bill SUMMARY. Please Read. FYI

2009-08-16 Thread Barbara Vedder
I think people should read this with care. I believe all the info to be false. These are the people who are disrupting the town halls all around the country and believe what Rush Limbaugh says. ŒKnocking on the door of our destruction¹ is a very loaded, fanatical thing to say. The Tea party

Re: [QUAD-L] Need Help, too much fiber ..........

2009-08-14 Thread Barbara Vedder
[mailto:merril...@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:34 PM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] Need Help, too much fiber .. Opposed to its name it is not an enema but rather a liquid Bisacotal suposatory. Merrill From: Barbara Vedder [mailto:bved...@charter.net

Re: [QUAD-L] Need Help, too much fiber ..........

2009-08-13 Thread Barbara Vedder
When you use either of these products, how do you make sure that you don¹t have an accident later during the day in your wheelchair? And do you take it the morning of, the night before, or what? Barbara On 8/13/09 6:36 PM, Merrill merril...@cox.net wrote: Enemeez in place of the silver Bullet

Re: [QUAD-L] Help! Suprapubic Cath keeps plugging

2009-07-28 Thread Barbara Vedder
I¹ve been using a drug called methenamine hippurate (hyprex) together with vitamin C for 28 years and it acidifies the urine. I¹ve never had any side effects from it and it seems to work well. Barbara On 7/28/09 12:46 PM, Greg g...@eskimo.com wrote: I¹ve had a 16 French supra-pubic cath for

Re: [QUAD-L] Questions

2009-06-07 Thread Barbara Vedder
I don't know if it's the same but I do know that low calcium can be caused by over drinking of water. I never had thought that drinking water could flush the calcium out of your system but if you really overdo it like I did, it can happen. I'd never thought of it before because normally problems

Re: [QUAD-L] Hypothermia

2009-03-17 Thread Barbara Vedder
I¹m here occasionally too. Barbara C-5-6 quadriplegic since 1981 Spinal cord injury On 3/16/09 6:49 PM, ladyno...@aol.com ladyno...@aol.com wrote: Hello two Lori's, Add me as another female to the quad list. I don't comment much, but I am here. Naomi C-4 Quadriplegic, since July 2,

Re: [QUAD-L] bowell routine question

2009-02-24 Thread Barbara Vedder
More water and bran...yeah,yeah,yeah! Works for me ­ C5-6 complete quad, 28 yrs Barbara On 2/24/09 5:11 PM, RONALD L PRACHT r.pra...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hey all, Im 11 yrs post , c7 quad. Ive been doing my routines every other day for the eleven years. The night b4 a routine a take a

Re: [QUAD-L] Comfort Rooms

2008-11-10 Thread Barbara Vedder
What¹s this bullshit? On 11/10/08 9:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I'm epically proud of Obama for comforting babies that survived an abortion by giving them a Comfort Room. A beautiful room where they can be held by a living breathing person until they die in

[QUAD-L] Bladder control - using a suprapubic catheter

2008-03-22 Thread Barbara Vedder
Hi y¹all, I¹m new to this group list and have been reading over emails sent out for the last few days and I have a very important, urgent question. I¹ve been quadriplegic for nearly 27 years and recently had my plumbing changed from an indwelling Foley catheter to a suprapubic catheter. I¹ve