Sentences with phrase «life in a wheelchair»

Improbably, given the severity of his disease, Semler avoided life in a wheelchair — though his growth was stunted and he stands 4 feet 8 inches tall.

Many people who are suddenly paralyzed are told by doctors that they will never walk again and have to learn how to adapt to life in a wheelchair.

11/13/2008 UC San Diego Physician Defies Gravity with Four Kids Who Spend Their Lives in Wheelchairs Erik Viirre, M.D., Ph.D., a University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician who specializes in diseases of the inner ear, recently completed his fifth weightless flight with Zero Gravity Corporation.

After Mark was injured in a car accident, he underwent rehabilitation at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, where he learned to adapt to his life in a wheelchair.

Dr. Terry Wahls was given a diagnosis of MS and told she'd have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

So he concocts a phony story to put Ted off her trail — she's ballooned to fish - like proportions, she lives in a wheelchair, etc. — and starts wooing her himself, putting her under surveillance and eavesdropping on her conversations to get the inside track on her heart.

He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

The book juxtaposes an adventurous, athletic, and sexually active lifestyle with life in a wheelchair - and decides tha

Rivera was more well - known for his enormous public murals while Kahlo, his beleaguered and disfigured wife, painted small due to spending a great deal of her life in wheelchairs and beds.

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In passing, he left behind an incredible legacy, especially as a person who struggled with ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that confined him to a wheelchair for the vast majority of his life.

Even an attempt on his life in 1990 that left him using a wheelchair kept him from the political stage for less than a year.

In March, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

I do also I am in a wheelchair crippled from a stroke I have no home and live in a bad nnursing home I suffer 247 with pain the nursing home doesn't have my pain mess they don't do their job

I now live in constant pain and in a wheelchair most of the time.

While they were there they met a man named Charlie, who was in a wheelchair, and asked him about his life and thoughts on Jesus.

seriously i kick the living shit out of the guy put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

The person doesn't walk away — despite hard work, despite prayers for a miracle and bargaining with God, despite making vast improvements in learning daily living skills from a wheelchair, and even despite, at times, some measurable return of arm and hand function.

Others use wheelchairs for mobility and living in a rural area leaves them with no way to get to church.

At just 27, she is full of stories — bringing just one pair of clothes to what turned out to be week's worth of disaster relief work, getting phone calls from Korea at 3 a.m., traveling from Bolivia to the U.S. with a child in need of life - saving surgery only to have the nurse get sick and the child push her in a wheelchair through the airport.

For most of Tyler's life, Steve has been in a wheelchair.

Baby wearing is going to be a life saver for me as a wheelchair user when baby makes her entrance in March!

«I'm in a wheelchair, and I live about half a mile from there,» Tosi said.

If there had been a TV in every living room sixty years ago, this country does not elect a man in a wheelchair

In a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, the groups urge a living wage for drivers and question ride - sharing app Uber's commitment to accessibility to those in wheelchairIn a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, the groups urge a living wage for drivers and question ride - sharing app Uber's commitment to accessibility to those in wheelchairin wheelchairs.

The oldest of the four living former US presidents, Bush, who served in office from 1989 to 1993, uses a wheelchair and has seemed frail in recent public appearances.

Products include wheelchair backpacks, gloves and ponchos along with other equipment that will help improve the excitement in the lives of children suffering with a medical condition.

Computer games controlled through wheelchair movements have the potential to improve quality of life for young people with severe mobility impairments but more needs to be done to consider the needs and preferences of players in game design, new research shows.

With the support of a few volunteers at the time that Neil died, Cameron took on the challenge of creating what NSF says was a vision of «a time when technology would allow people who just happened to be in wheelchairs to have the same choices, opportunities, and quality of life as any other person.»

Stephen Hawking bullish on alien life, would like to visit it Famed wheelchair - bound physicist Stephen Hawking told a crowd at George Washington University in the nation's capital this week that primitive extraterrestrial life (that is, the nonintelligent kind) is probably «very common.»

Even later in his life he writes that he wishes his disability were more obvious; when we see someone in a wheelchair we know they can't walk, so we help them across the street.

This lesion to her spinal cord put her in hospital for 2 months, a rehabilitation centre for a further eight, and the «wheelchair that after a while became my best friend» for the rest of her life.

These were probably the smoothest few months of Pasa's life in research to date, as «in the States, and even alone, I never had any problems because I was in a wheelchair.»

The first issue was simply getting to classes with no public transport accessible to wheelchair users and, because she lived outside the city, no access to the transport provided for the disabled in Genoa.

Posted on April 17, 2018 · Don Schoendorfer talks with Houston Matters about how his organization, Free Wheelchair Mission, works and the difference it's making in lives.

I should be more grateful because the guy who lives next door to me is in a wheelchair.

Born without fibulae in her legs, doctors told her she would never walk and would likely be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

No close calls with death, no years in a wheelchair, no moment where the doctor told us we had months to live.

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I am disabled in a wheelchair and use a walker, but i do nt let my disability run or ruin my life.

Im in a wheelchair and have been my whole life do to being born with a spinal chord injury.

i'm a country loveing guy i own my home and some land and a few cattle, i try anymore to live a simple quiet peaceful life, i got hurt on my job so i'm medically retired so i have a modest comfortable liveing.i'm a quadraplegic, i'm in a wheelchair but i stay active, i do need some personal care...

I now live on my own if in town, I'm in a wheelchair and work at a, store called re-made for a purpose, They hire disabled adults with disabilities.

Life has placed me in a wheelchair and oxygen...

I'm disabled don't drive looking for white men I'm in for making love live with my mom I'm in a wheelchair also have seziers sometimes was hit thrown by my first EX want a true man that will spoil me have, my own cellphone text alot

Im a sweet and care person I take care of kids for a living I babysit and help out with special needs kids at my church and love kids and love dogs and I use to take care of my sister who was in a wheelchair she was special needs and live with my mom and my sister and love god so much

im in a wheelchair due to a motorcyce accident in which l lost my life but am now a christian and love Jesus cos l found out that satan jusr steals kills ad destroys but Jesus gives life and that everlasting so if youre interrested in living forever then invite Jesus into your life to be youre...

I'm a 48 year old Native American single father of a 12 year old daughter, I'd like to start off saying that I am in a Wheelchair from a car accident so with that out of the way I'm a totally independent person who can do things on my own n but would love to sharing my life with that special...

So you re in a wheelchair maybe you ve been in one your entire life or perhaps it s fairly new to you.

«The Theory of Everything» runs with that irony: this is a Hawking profile in which you'll see the wheelchair - using, speech - impaired scientist happily rolling around his living room dressed up like a Dalek.