[hillarymcarter]

Is the movie Murderball out in the UK? It is a movie about the United States quad rugby team. My husband and I are going to see it August 26th. Watching the interviews with the players and seeing the pics have changed my husband's life!
He is so mad that he can't play rugby (you have to be a quad and he is para). He is going to try sled hockey and water sports.
Does anyone play sports and if so what sport???

[wheelie182]

I'll hopefully be getting my racing chair on Monday..................can't wait

[wheelie182]

You say that your husband cant play rugby, but there is whole heap of other stuff he could do, the list goes on and on................and on.......and probaly a bit more.

But i think your husband would probaly be interested in basketball or tennis, those seem to be the popular ones, or shooting if he likes guns.

But i suppose he had his heart set on playing rugby, although i think he could play it at a club but just no competively, but then whats the pint in that?

Anyway, i seriously recommend doing a sport, its the best way to keep fit, just keeping looking until you find one that you like

[hillarymcarter]

The problem is that my husband was a college football player before his injury. If it doesn't have contact he doesn't want to play it. I think he basically just wanted to ram the hell out of some people!
If I suggested basketball, etc. he would laugh me out of the room! He already does competitive shooting, pool, fishing, hunting, you name it. He really had his heart set on rugby! He is going to go to the practices he just can't play in the games. He's going to try sled hockey next week for the first time.

[wheelie182]

HAs he ever watched the basketball on tv, ok its not as rough as rugby, but people are always toppling their chairs over due to collistions!!

[hillarymcarter]

No, he is very stubborn headed and I know that if he didn't play it before he isn't about to start now! Thanks for the suggestion though.
What kind of racing do you do?

[wheelie182]

i must say i really do prefer your avatar to your last one, that guy or girl dancing was really annoying, in fact saying that......mine is really starting to annoy me now, it looks really stupid, im definatly going to change it!

Anyway, yeah, ive been going to a racing club for ages now but they couldn't find a suitable chair that fits, as i didn't want to go out and buy a brand new one, before i definatly knew i was going to stick to the sport, but hopefully i'll get this second hand one, and then, maybe in a while i'll get a brand new one that fits perfectly.

Basicly its the racing that Tani Grey Thompson does, you know, in the three wheeled long racing chairs, i dont know what i'll be doing yet, long or short distances, i'll see what im best at.

But i cant wait to get it though, i'll be out in it all the time, i live on a really flat area, and i've got an awsome race track very close to me, should be great, ask your husband if he's interested, i've nver met a guy who doesn't like speed, and these racers go pretty damn fast, i think the record is 56mph, but going down hill though. But tanni says when she's doing the 26 mile marathons, that at some points you can easily reach 40.

[Bob Clark]

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i must say i really do prefer your avatar to your last one, that guy or girl dancing was really annoying, in fact saying that......mine is really starting to annoy me now, it looks really stupid, im definatly going to change it!

Hi Wheelie,

There are free animated gif programs on the Internet that will let you create or edit animated gifs so they only "loop" a couple/few times. You know, so that it isn't always on.

Just thought you may want to know.

Here's my baby picture morphing into me at age 50! I set it to loop 3 times then stop. I find that it doesn't annoy people especially if they need to spend some time on a page. Well I wasn't the cutest baby nor am I a very handsome man so maybe it will still annoy!

[hillarymcarter]

Bob, that is a scary avatar!!! I must say you are much cuter now than you were as a baby!
Hey, and my last avatar was cool......haven't you guys seen napoleon dynamite? It is the best movie ever!
Do you know if they have jet ski racing for paras? He might be interested in that. He got in a fight with a guy about fishing the other day. This dude comes up to him at a restaurant (he knew he was a big fisherman before the accident) and he says "you know they have paraplegic fishing clubs". I thought Bruce was going to jump out of his wheelchair! He said "the problem is I don't want to fish against them I want to take your money in a fishing tournament!" It was amusing!

[wheelie182]

Nah, sorry Hillary, i didn't mean any offence against your avatar,

i've changed mine now, i think its better than the last one,
its not so..........mmmm.........whats the word?.............. CRAP!!!!

If you don't recognise it, its slash form Guns 'n' Roses

But i don't see why they couldn't do jet ski racing, i mean the only problem would be supporting your back, and they do horse riding dont they, so i reckon theres a good chance somone has done it, maybe you could add a little backrest, but maybe your husband doesn't need it, i know i do, im t6-t7, and if i dont have some sort of backrest, i tend to slouch

[hillarymcarter]

I was wondering what your avatar was....it is too little for my eyes! He could support his back b/c he has a low injury. His rehab is having a ski jump workshop tomorrow but he can't go play because he still has open wounds. He had a flap surgery on his butt in March and we found out in May that the surgeon left a surgical sponge in him. Now he has to wear a wound vac and the dang thing won't heal.

[carolline]

Hi hillary
Is your husband wearing right now a wound vac?
Is he,still in the hospital or he have his own wound vac?
It's really difficult to heal the wound in the butt.Sometimes it takes many months before it healed.And it depends on the size of the wound.So just wait and be patience.How big and how deap his wound?
Hope it will heal so soon,so that he can enjoy going outside stay for a long time.

[hillarymcarter]

We have a wound vac at home. I've had lots of experience with them so I change them with a nurse watching over in case I have questions.
He's had a wound vac since March when his flap surgery failed and came open. Since then we have healed it many times but it kept coming open. Finally, in May we found a surgical sponge that his surgeon had left behind from the operation. Now he has a Y-connector attached to the original opening and one on his leg.
It is coming along very slowly! It is hard to be patient! He also lays in a hyperbaric chamber for 10 hours per week and that has helped a lot.
He's home but he still has to stay on a hospital bed.

[Bob Clark]

Hi Hillary,

I hope the surgeon apologized for forgetting the sponge and causing your husband months more time of suffering in a hospital bed! Geez... counting sponges "in and out" is surgery 101!

Here in the US they're gonna start marking surgical sponges and implements with scanning barcodes on them. Before a surgeon is handed anything an OR nurse will scan it. After the operation the patient won't be sewn up until everything is accounted for. In the tests that I saw with lots of noise and distractions going on the method was much more reliable than a simple head or hand count. It's amazing how many things are left inside patients each year. It's a very small percentage overall but with the large number of surgeries being performed worldwide it's still sizable. Especially when it happens to you or a loved one.

I'm curious... has the doctor or hospital "volunteered" to make any restitution to you and your husband or are they "forcing" you to sue them? This question is a bit difficult to ask in here because of the different types of healthcare systems each of our countries have. But in the US healthcare is all for profit so a fair "pain and suffering" pay out should be expected. And a simple sincere apology goes a long way too.

Mistakes (negligence) happen and people who are hurt by them should be "made whole" to the best extent possible. Some awards are so huge that they can damage the healthcare system so I'm against them. But some reasonable restitution should be made if for no other reason than to keep the doctors, nurses and hospitals on their toes.

Best of luck to you and your hubby.

[hillarymcarter]

We live in Louisiana and the surgery was done at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. We are suing the doctor simply because my husband will most likely have this sore on his bottom for the rest of his life. They did a double flap surgery so it can never be redone. If it doesn't heal it will just be there forever. Considering he is 26 and I am 23 that is a lot of dressing changes!
We realize that it isn't even the surgeon's job to count the sponges so we aren't mad at anyone we just feel like we deserve our money back plus some! The university hospitals have insurance for this reason. It will probably never even go to court. We were told by our lawyer that he will send in a petition for lawsuit and the hospital will pretty much just send us a check so they don't have to deal with it.

Where do you live in the U.S.?

[carolline]

Sad to hear about that,what happened to your hubby's operation.
I hate the doctor about his negligence(and maybe they used about to pay for the damages/negligence they've done) We dont know how come this happened,as Bob said it should be counted all the instrument using in the operating room.It's really a negligence, okay lets say doctor is not accountable for this,How about the scrub nurse assisting him?And the most responsible for the instrument and supplies is the Circulating Nurse!

Anyway were hoping to heal the wound.
Was he use an intrasite gell before,for his wound dressing?
Good luck,and regards to your hubby.

[wheelie182]

Sorry i know nothing about operations at all, but from what carolnie just said, about there being a least three people present, how could they all have miss that it had happened, are they all blind?

I tell you its scares me, some of the stuff that happens in hospial,

heres a funny story, very early on in my injury, when i was still in hospital, and they were getting me up for that excited, but very dreaded first time, you guys will know what im on about, where you sit up, and the blood rushes down to your legs, and you puke up the world!!!

well anyway i had this trainee indian nurse had to dress me, and everything was fine until she was putting on my trousers

(now this is very hard to explain.....but i'll try)

well she started putting on my trousers from the bottom up, so you know when you put on your trousers and you have the very bottom bit that touches your shoes, well thats the bit she was putting on first..............can you believe it!!

i had to tell her, how to put my trousers on

[hillarymcarter]

He He! That's so odd and random! I wonder how she puts on her pants! Those were the days when Bruce was first getting up! For four months the whole hospital called him red bag Bruce because he had to carry around a biohazard bag for all the puking he did!

Caroline-we can't use any gel on the wound because the wound vac will just suck it up. Our buddy is a surgeon (he actually did Bruce's trach operation) and he said they are required to count everything five times. Either they didn't count five times or they are really crappy counters!

Bob-I saw that special on Discovery Health about the bar codes being on the supplies. That is a great idea! Not only do you make sure everything is out but if something is missing you know exactley what it is!

[wheelie182]

Hi hillary,

i came across this website, its got jet ski-ing on it,

www.sportability.org

it links you to like a entry page, and to enter the website, click enter, its written in small letters on the middle right,

then go to activities, and jet ski is under that

[hillarymcarter]

Thanks for the great website! I can't wait to show it to my husband........however, he is stuck in the mud on some pipeline in a 4x4 jeep with his drunk brother! Oh well, I guess guys just gotta be stupid sometimes! They didn't even take his chair!

[Joed]

Ah! Drunk brothers and 4X4's. Can it get any better than that?

I hope he's having a blast.

[wheelie182]

Wah Hey!! I got my racing chair yesterday, extremly light, but in bad nick, its going to need a lot of doing up, im gonna give it a matt black look i think, and add a few racing stickers.

the only thing is though......my legs are bit long for it, but thats no problem, ive got a hacksaw somewhere in the garage

[carolline]

Go! Wheelie Go!
Keep on going,what's the best sport will suittable for you.
(what are you going to do to your hacksaw huh? )

After suffering an SCI,the person may feel that he/she cannot participate in those recreational activities he/she once enjoyed.However,having an SCI does not mean that one must give up his/her favorite sports and hobbies.Wheelchair sports have been used for enjoyment as well as rehabilitation tool since World War II in some countries.Since then,almost every sport has been adapted to allow people with disabilities to participate.In addition,there are many recreational activities available to enhance the persons life,many of wich can be enjoyed with friends and family.

Wheelchair sports are also an important tool in maintaining post injury fitness and improving social and mental aspects of life.Developing well rounded fitness program and participating in organized sports help to maintain overall good health.

Good Luck Wheelie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joed]

Wheelie....

Great news on the chair! Let us know how it goes.

Uh, oh....a determined man with a hacksaw ...this could get ugly.

[carolline]

Joed,
What do you think,in the future we'll gonna have CHEER TEAM for Wheelie????
We'll ask Hillary too about this.

Wheelie,
You'll get our support!!!
Let us know what's going on

[wheelie182]

You know i told you it was in bad condition,well i spent all day in the garage doing it up,

but ive added a few modds, i hope they'll still let me race, i don't think ive made any drastic changes

what do you think?

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[Joed]

Well, carolline....going by wheelie's pic of his chair, it looks like we'll be cheering for the right man!

[hillarymcarter]

That's awesome!
Do y'all get the show 'King of the Hill' in the UK? Anyway..this guy on the show gets hurt during war and they amputate the bottoms of his legs and then they sew his feet onto his knees so he's really short! So, Wheelie, I guess that could be an option!
Update....my husband got back from the killer mudpuddle just fine and he had the time of his life! I am throwing him a huge surprise party for his birthday tomorrow!

[carolline]

Wheelie,it seems like a FUTURISTIC CHAIR!!!

Hillary....
Happy Birthday to your husband
Cheer!!!

[madmikey]

Wow that is a cool chair! now tht looks like it could work! dont think you'd get stuck in anything with those wheels! My personnal favourite piece is the spoiler on the back! style and down force! cant ask for any more.

Just on another note you reminded me of this article i sow good ideas always work!

bbc

http://news.bbc.co.u...ire/3611660.stm