Sentences with phrase «sitting in a wheelchair»

In the photo, the bespectacled author sat in a wheelchair in front of a star field.

That is a healthy emphasis — as long as that diversity includes serious attention to the vocations of people sitting in wheelchairs in retirement communities and a teenage boy who is trying to summon up the courage to ask a girl on a date.

But that was not as bad as the week before, when a seminarian — addressing a congregation where at least a dozen of us were sitting in wheelchairs — exhorted us to stand up for Christ in an increasingly secular society!

The bullet sliced the man's palm before it entered the left side of his 80 - year - old wife's abdomen and exited the right side, as she was sitting in her wheelchair.

Zackery spent the next nine months in a coma, and even today still sits in a wheelchair, having regained his sight and ability to speak but still struggling to regain strength in his left leg and foot.

He sits in a wheelchair so is away from the microphone and has to exert himself more than others.

Julie Cataldo is strapped into a harness as she sits in her wheelchair just a few feet from the edge of the Erie Canal.

\ n \ nI will never forget March 1, 2002, when I held a formerly paralyzed laboratory rat in my hand, and felt the little muscles working again — while my paralysed son Roman Reed sat in his wheelchair a few feet away.

Today when I went to teach my class I saw Mr. M. sitting in his wheelchair.

I just want to remind you that you were created to have great worth and value regardless of whether you walk or sit in a wheelchair.

Months before her wedding, she became progressively more ill, losing the ability even to sit in a wheelchair.

Among those waiting for her was a Korean man sitting in a wheelchair.

But so many of them were leaning on canes or sitting in wheelchairs that you might have thought Henry Bonwiller had been a small - town slip - and - fall lawyer and not a man who, if certain chips of fate had fallen certain other ways, might once have been president of the United States.

These workers can not administer medication and usually can not help with a transfer from one position (such as lying in bed) to another position (such as sitting in a wheelchair).

Dogs big enough to be easily stroked sitting in a wheelchair needed.

Howard Hodgkin sits in a wheelchair in his studio.

The painter Carmen Herrera, who turns 101 in May, was sitting in her wheelchair on a gray day last month, waiting and watching, catlike.

Merce Cunningham sits in his wheelchair, parked in the doorway of the studio where his company have practised for the past 34 years.

Companies like Hafele are manufacturing countertops that can be raised and lowered to suit people of different heights or those sitting in a wheelchair.

Not exact matches

The former dancer sits poker - straight in an electric wheelchair, occasionally raising an unsteady hand to emphasize a point or attract attention.

but they watched a lady sitting next to them walk after being in a wheelchair for a decade... and they came back filled with faith that God could really be who they read about in the bible.

20 - 30mmHg medical legwear is a compression level that is appropriate for venous thrombosis prevention during extended travel or from prolonged sitting while in a wheelchair.

Thinking you can have both will more than likely find you sitting alone in a wheelchair in some retirement home screaming nonsense at the moon.

Veve's 3 - year - old daughter, Darshee, sat on his lap and wife Esther kept her hand on his shoulder as he emerged in a wheelchair and was placed into a van.

During one task, one monkey, called the passenger, sat in an electronic wheelchair programmed to reach a reward across the room, a fresh grape.

It takes my breath away every time I see the subject sitting there in his or her wheelchair being able to, just through their thoughts, control robotic limbs or play a virtual piano or type on a virtual keyboard.

Chair yoga delivers the benefits of yoga, including flexibility, strength, improved circulation and mental focus, to anyone who can sit in a chair, including those in wheelchairs.

Right next to us sat two other couples comprised of a woman in a wheelchair and an able - bodied partner.

Many jokes are made at the expense of old people on the brink of death, or sitting comatose in a wheelchair.

Aunt Ida asked Bernie, sitting two wheelchairs away in Serenity Meadows Assisted Living Center.

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Place your dog beside you on the couch, on a table where you can easily reach her while seated in your wheelchair, or sit with her on her mat.

Ideally, of course, all dogs should be properly trained, but if you are unable to do so, or even if you want a dog who will sit with you in your wheelchair, a toy dog may be the one you want.

Those behaviors can be classified into two main groups: 1 / the behaviors required for public access, like leash walking, sit, down and other basic skills and 2 / the specialized skills, like retrieving objects from the floor, turning on and off light switches, opening doors, helping a person get up from the ground, assisting in the transition of the person from a wheelchair to a bed, alerting to a change of blood glucose levels, or getting help.

Thank you so much for your article on the cavalier King Charles our sweet Mandy who is 9 years old started with a few of these symptoms a couple of years ago but she has always had certain tics like the digging of blankets or sheets while on the bed or flip flopping after being given a bath or the constant licking of the inside of her leg, I thought I had a obsessive compulsive dog, but when we noticed how she was showing signs of weakness in her back legs and now she has totally lost the use of her back legs, we have taken her to an orthopedic veterinary doctor and he did take x-rays she was diagnosed with spinal stenosis and arthritis he prescribed gabapentin and an antiflamitory, she does have a wheelchair but she hates it we also have a wagon she loves to sit in when we take walks.

These 19 states are cracking down on fake service dogs Health Oct 16, 2017 10:29 AM EDT Chris Slavin was in an elevator a couple years ago with Earle, her yellow lab service dog, sitting calmly beside her wheelchair.

Whilst the area the hotel sits in is flat there is no mention of the apartment complex being suitable for a wheelchair user which would suggest that there are no disabled facilities, ie wheelchair access and ramps.

• 250m from a sandy beach • Free WiFi in all areas • Room service • 24 - hr reception • Free outdoor parking • Laundry service • Wheelchair access to all areas • Gift shop / kiosk • Beauty salon • Hairdressing salon • Baby - sitting on request • Taxi - office in grounds • Currency Exchange • Multilingual staff

Towards the end of the opening of Susanna Heller's exhibition at MagnanMetz Gallery of recent paintings, «Phantom Pain,» as the gallery emptied, I happened to witness a profound moment: Heller's husband, sociologist Bill DiFazio, wheelchair - bound since loosing his left leg three years ago to a terrible illness, rolled his chair up first to gaze deeply and long at a painting by Heller of him sitting in his chair, Lost in Thought.

Borges, too weak to talk, sat silently in a wheelchair with his right leg propped up.

According to a research study of university students by the American Psychological Association, «those who walked instead of sitting or being pushed in a wheelchair consistently gave more creative responses on tests commonly used to measure creative thinking, such as thinking of alternate uses for common objects and coming up with original analogies to capture complex ideas.»

Supervise and physically aid clients in walking, sitting, and navigating between rooms, and transferring from wheelchairs to beds

They help nurses in holding patients to prevent any self - made injuries and make them sit comfortably in wheelchairs to move them from their wards to other hospital areas such as operating rooms, x-rays rooms or for treatment.