[QUAD-L] honey vs bag balm vs sulfadiazine

2011-07-22 Thread donald scott
hi group,   ok, here we go again with the pressure soar question. i developed my first pressure soar after 20 years. it's a stage 2 and barely open. it's about the size of a quarter. it's located on my buttock and was caused by my jay 2 cushion. i've been fighting it for 2 months now and saw my

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2011-07-22 Thread Eric W Rudd
I use http://www.bagbalm.com/ daily great stuff. Eric W Rudd c5sc...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: donald scott To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:30 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] honey vs bag balm vs sulfadiazine hi group, ok, here we go again with

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2011-07-22 Thread donald scott
eric, is it ok to use the bag balm on a open soar? From: Eric W Rudd c5sc...@gmail.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 6:36 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] honey vs bag balm vs sulfadiazine I use http://www.bagbalm.com/ daily great stuff. Eric W Rudd c5sc...@gmail.com -

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2011-07-22 Thread Eric W Rudd
don't think you're suppose to use it on open sores. i use it in crotch/butt area for chaffing, red areas, etc. Eric W Rudd c5sc...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: donald scott To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] honey vs

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
pressures sores, should always be your 1st priority. Everything else is 2nd. In time you will learn the difference between staying off your butts vs complete bedrest and turning each 3 hours. Meds and Chemicals only do so much. Diet is equally important, as with age and skin texture.

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
but not recommended for open wounds, sores or ulcers. Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 8:37:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time, c5sc...@gmail.com writes: I use _http://www.bagbalm.com/_ (http://www.bagbalm.com/) daily great stuff. Eric W Rudd _c5sci97@gmail.com_

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2011-07-22 Thread Bob Vogel
I wrote an article about healing pressure sores in January New Mobility. I was fortunate to speak with the best wound care specialists in the business--all of them said that proper hydration with H20 is an important key, AND proper nutrition and taking in enough calories is also crucial.

[QUAD-L] How hot is it by you?

2011-07-22 Thread Bobbie Humphreys
I living in Mid-Northern New Jersey and at 2:00 it is 95 degrees in the shade. Bobbie Sent from my iPad

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2011-07-22 Thread nichole rohling
100 degrees in prague ok. we've been over 100 degrees for i believe 29 days this summer...7 day forcast 101, 101, 100, 102, 104, 104, 102 i can't handle even being in the shade..let alone sitting in the sun nicki -Original Message- From: Bobbie Humphreys

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2011-07-22 Thread Greg
At 2:00 PM it's 95F in the shade with 54% humidity here in the hills of central Tennessee. COME ON SEPTEMBER! On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 13:45, nichole rohling zoocr...@windstream.netwrote: 100 degrees in prague ok. we've been over 100 degrees for i believe 29 days this summer...7 day

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2011-07-22 Thread KK
National news this morning said New York was going to be the hottest place in the states. Houston TX area has been cool this last week with high temp in the lower 90's KK From: Bobbie Humphreys bobbie...@aol.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com quad-list@eskimo.com

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
Wednesday it was 98 in the shade and 115 heat index with 70 plus humidity. Thursday it was 100.9 in the shade with 70 plus humidity. Today it began as hot, then a major storm and the sun is back out. 80 plus humidity and hot. Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 1:14:39 P.M.

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2011-07-22 Thread donald scott
I'm  in norwalk, ca which is about 15 miles south of l.a. and it's a cool high of 78 today. i feel for you heat sufferers and hope you stay cool and well. take care, donald From: Bobbie Humphreys bobbie...@aol.com To: quad-list@eskimo.com quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:43

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
. and you are expecting some snow? Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 1:46:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time, zoocr...@windstream.net writes: 100 degrees in prague ok. we've been over 100 degrees for i believe 29 days this summer...7 day forcast 101, 101, 100, 102, 104,

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
Come to Chicago. I know where the devil vacations. Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 2:26:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rollingl...@yahoo.com writes: I'm in norwalk, ca which is about 15 miles south of l.a. and it's a cool high of 78 today. i feel for you heat sufferers and

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2011-07-22 Thread nichole rohling
i wish!!! -Original Message- From: wheelch...@aol.com [mailto:wheelch...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 2:42 PM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] How hot is it by you? . and you are expecting some snow? Best Wishes In a message dated

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2011-07-22 Thread Don Price
Currently 101 here in Tempe/Phoenix, Arizona, with forecast 106 high. Only 13% humidity, so not too bad.   Some of you will understand this, some of you won't:  I love the heat!   Don c5-6

[QUAD-L] hot

2011-07-22 Thread Ismael Cavazos
Texas Brownsville since April we been 102 cents. We haven't received any rain for the pass. Six months

Re: [QUAD-L] honey vs bag balm vs sulfadiazine

2011-07-22 Thread Danny Hearn
Hi, Don--I had a pressure sore a while back on my bottom from my seat losing air---Some of the quads on here recommended ( lantiseptic ) so we bought wound care saline and would clean it with that then after it dried we applied the lantiseptic cream--Mine healed very quickly after that--- Bag

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2011-07-22 Thread Bob Vogel
The best stuff I've found to protect skin, heal redness, dryness, and heal the earliest stages (non-broken) skin is Sween Cream by Coloplast. It costs about $9-$12 bucks for a tube that will last several months of using it evening and morning on my butt. Works well on skin anywhere. I apply

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
Would that be Mark Welman? Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 3:59:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rhvsh...@pacbell.net writes: The best stuff I've found to protect skin, heal redness, dryness, and heal the earliest stages (non-broken) skin is Sween Cream by Coloplast. It costs

[QUAD-L] questioned

2011-07-22 Thread Ismael Cavazos
Any you guys like to see football. You'd think that NFL owners and the players they'd never going to come to agreement us football fans were going to watch any games this season. Coming up

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2011-07-22 Thread Bob Vogel
You guessed it! He used to drone on and on about The Sween Cream brother! Gotta have the Sween Cream to keep the skin strong. About 6-months ago I started having serious problems with red, dry cracking skin and started having heal tiny stage II cracks. I remembered his animated Gotta have

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2011-07-22 Thread DiannaL767
In a message dated 7/22/2011 4:03:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, donpric...@yahoo.com writes: Some of you will understand this, some of you won't: I love the heat! I do. Sure beats a blizzard!

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
I just knew it. Mark is a super human being and a talented para-glider, in his spare time. His group performs at places like county fairs and performs trick maneuvers , while wearing smoke grenades. They land away from the grandstands and then roll out in their chairs to the screaming

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2011-07-22 Thread Larry
It is 98 in the shade here in old Kaintuck. Heat index 114. Ow, wow, ouch, wouch, burn! Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com From: Bobbie Humphreys bobbie...@aol.com Date: July 22, 2011 2:43:23 AM EDT To: quad-list@eskimo.com quad-list@eskimo.com

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2011-07-22 Thread Bob Vogel
Thanks for the Cool Reply, You have all of the info correct... Except, you are rolling 3 wheelers into one it's totally understandable. All three of us will take this as a compliment. Mark Wellman made national television and newspaper headlines when he--a T12 paraplegic--climbed the 3,000

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2011-07-22 Thread hellodaveoc
I have 111 here in Glendale AZ - just w of Phoenix - with 7% humidity. When you spit, it doesn't hit the ground. azdave The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it. _Daveoconnell.com_ (http://daveoconnell.com/) In a message dated

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2011-07-22 Thread Bob Vogel
DOH!!??!! Link to Mark Wellman article: http://www.newmobility.com/articleView.cfm?id=134srch=Mark%20Wellman On Jul 22, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Bob Vogel wrote: I forgot--here is a link to my article on Mark Wellman--from 1998 And a photo from my 1987 EJ ad for the EJ Impulse Wheelchair.

Re: [QUAD-L] How hot is it by you?

2011-07-22 Thread Bob Vogel
A friend of mine was flying from NY, to San Francisco via Southwest--had a connection in Phoenix, in July. It was 120 degrees (how do you make the degree symbol with word on a Mac?)-- so hot that the air was too thin (hot air expands and is thinner--heat made the air density the same as if it

Re: [QUAD-L] questioned

2011-07-22 Thread Eric W Rudd
IMHO their will be football. Eric W Rudd c5sc...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Ismael Cavazos ismael.cava...@att.net To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:27 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] questioned Any you guys like to see football. You'd think that NFL owners and

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
I remember Go Beyond The Limits when it first came out. Mark's best show was when he opened the 1995 Summer ParaOlympics during the torch lighting ceremony. The Stadium was packed with standing room only. Tickets for the ceremony were sold out long before the event. I bet there were

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
Love it! I also hear you don't have to change your underwear each day like we do up North (smiling) Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 5:32:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, hellodav...@aol.com writes: I have 111 here in Glendale AZ - just w of Phoenix - with 7% humidity. When you

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
Maybe not as we once knew it... but we will have something that resembles the tossing, kicking and passing of a ball across some lines and cheerleaders with buffalo wings and beer. Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 7:15:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, c5sc...@gmail.com writes:

[QUAD-L] heat

2011-07-22 Thread paul38
Because of my spinal cord injury,C5/6 complete quad,I do not sweat.I retain the heat, so my body temperature is very high.I hydrate myself as much as I can,but after 20 yrs. I stay in the air-conditioning.I can handle 85 degrees,any higher,I'm inside. Any other quads that have a hard time

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2011-07-22 Thread Eric W Rudd
pretty sure we all do. but as with everything else, our tolerence varies. Eric W Rudd c5sc...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: pau...@comcast.net To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 7:53 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] heat Because of my spinal cord injury,C5/6

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2011-07-22 Thread hellodaveoc
no, no, no... shake the crusty stuff out in the am and with a little right guard, you're ok for another day. azdave The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it. _Daveoconnell.com_ (http://daveoconnell.com/) In a message dated 7/22/2011

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2011-07-22 Thread hellodaveoc
flight charts go to 120f - sorry, after that, take a cab azdave The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it. _Daveoconnell.com_ (http://daveoconnell.com/) In a message dated 7/22/2011 4:17:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,

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2011-07-22 Thread hellodaveoc
yes, and 123 only feels like 115...? azdave The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it. _Daveoconnell.com_ (http://daveoconnell.com/) In a message dated 7/22/2011 4:08:18 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,

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2011-07-22 Thread wheelchair
Have you tried warm tea on those hot days to release some of the heat? I personally love a bowl of chili on hot days like the past week. Best Wishes In a message dated 7/22/2011 7:54:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, pau...@comcast.net writes: Because of my spinal cord injury,C5/6

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2011-07-22 Thread Lissette Whitehead
You all need to come to San Diego, CA. It's in the 70's during the day. I complain about it warm enough lol, no, I was out today and it was nice, it gets chilly in the evening though, just a bit. Lissette Whitehead 1177 Broadway Suite #4 Chula Vista, CA 91911