I saw this in my local news paper pretty cool check it out.
Becky Chesnut leans in to watch her daughter's lips as the young woman carefully mouths the words she wants to say. No sound comes from Teresa's mouth because her vocal cords are paralyzed, along with the rest of her body except her neck and head.
Teresa is so good at enunciating that she makes herself understood most of the time. When her mom is stumped on a word, they quickly switch to an alphabet routine, with Teresa blinking when Becky says the right letter out loud. They continue until she knows what word Teresa is saying.
The two Redding residents have fine-tuned their communication, something that became necessary after Teresa was in a car crash, the victim of a drunken driver, and became paralyzed from the neck down at age 18.
Now 32, Teresa — who goes by Reesa online — has learned to create graphic art online with Photoshop, snipping images she likes from free sites and pasting them onto her own creation. It's a painstaking process for Teresa, who slowly and meticulously outlines each image with a head mouse that is directed by a tube she holds in her mouth.
http://www.redding.c...pieces-art-int/
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Quadriplegic Creates Pieces Of Art On Internet
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Posted 17 September 2008 - 08:25 PM
Illinois Boy, on Sep 16 2008, 10:08 PM, said:
Shit............
I couldn't do that with four good arms and paint by numbers........
Awesome painter.........
Jim
I couldn't do that with four good arms and paint by numbers........
Awesome painter.........
Jim
Totally Agree!!!
Amazing!
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