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This came as a total surprise. Did any FL residents see this coming? http://www.flspinalcord.us/ Dear FAAST Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center Subscribers: This correspondence is to inform you that the Florida Department of Health, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program (BSCIP) contract with the Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and ...

Our newest member to the Reeve Forum is member # 500.Watch us grow!

Welcome to the Reeve Community!  I look forward to hearing more from you as you post and participate.  We can all learn so much from each other----thanks for posting.

Hi Alicia:Welcome to the Reeve Community Forums. Glad you found us but wish you didn't need us!  I hope that you will share more of your personal experience--successes and challenges with us.I look forward to hearing more from you.

Hi Brandon:You got me to look!  Welcome to the Reeve Community.  Might I make a few suggestions on how to raise money and other possible walking programs for you?First: NTAF, National Transplant Assistance Fund & Catastrophic Injury Program NTAF provides fundraising support for qualified individuals and acts as your 501 (c)3, making ...

I thought this article would be food for thought.Disabled Athletes Defy an Unaccommodating CityI found the article below in the NY Times last week.  I think it says a lot about accessibility and disability in other countries.  To be a top athlete and to be virtually unrecognized because you are an athlete with a disability is totally mind

Please be sure to stop by Booth # 210 and meet the staff of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.  We will be at the booths each day so stop by and say hello, ask a question or simply to meet some of the folks who post in the Reeve Community.  We look forward to meeting you.

Here is another good piece from the folks at the NW SCI Regional Center in Seattle Washington. In November 2009 in conjunction with Seattle Children's Hospital they produced The SCI Forum Growing into Adulthood with a Spinal Cord Injury.  Read more below: The SCI Forum Growing into Adulthood with a Spinal Cord Injury, which took place ...

More than 17 years ago as I was expecting my first child I was looking everywhere for resources as a parent with a disability.  I needed an accessible crib, wasn't sure how I could carry my son and I simply wanted to know what was available for me and my child.Today, the Paralysis Resource Center (PRC) provides information and resources to ...

Looks like the survey opened a can of worms.  Lets make this a moment to educate and inform.RickC3/4 was saying that when he can walk, ie. ''good weather, etc. he does walk.  In snow etc, he is in the same situation as a wheeler, he can not make it into a building without the spotPoint 2, many folks with SCI do not have normal sized ...

Wow, Dr. Dan, you really touched my soul today with your thoughts.My signature on all but one of my email accounts is ''Every day I wake up is a good one.''  I had a dear and very close friend who had this as his signature.  He was injured many years ago in the Australia outback.  He was a fighter, the first quad to ever walk out of ...

FAMILY CAREGIVERS OF VETERANS NEEDED FOR SURVEY The National Alliance for Caregiving is seeking participants for a new study of family caregivers of Veterans. This study is intended to determine how caregivers of Veterans are coping and what community and VA services, resources, and programs would support and assist them with their ...

Hi and welcome to the Reeve Forums.  It sounds as if you are describing autonomic dysreflexia (AD). Excellent that he was just cathed but is there a chance his bladder is full again?  Some folks use a foley cath or condom cath (if he is able) when they fly, especially depending on the length of the flight.  What about bowel? Do you ...