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From: Janet.Vibert@f6.n3615.z1.fidonet.org (Janet Vibert)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: When Placards Travel
Date: 24 Jul 92 03:18:57 GMT
Reply-To: Janet.Vibert@f6.n3615.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3615/6 - The Hitchin' Post, Knoxville TN

Index Number: 23275

BD>well, I live in Ohio and when I visited Chicago I used my parking card and
BD>didn't have any problems. this could mean the chicago police do not patrol
BD>around parking lots or do not care who parks in disabled spots, or that
BD>you can use your card out of state. :)
BD>i'm not "in the know," but I do not see why you couldn't use your card while
BD>out of state (just as long as the card is from the same state your plates
BD>are).
 But Bob...  why would the placard have to be from the same state as the
 tags?  What about if you flew someplace and had room for your placard
 but not your vehicle?  That was the reason I chose the permanent
 placard over the permanent tag.  Sometimes when we go over to see my
 husband we take my m-i-l's car and her tags are out-of-state.  Last
 week I took my aunt and nephew over to see him and her tags are
 Florida.

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From: Nancy.Feldman@f605.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Nancy Feldman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Braille And Spelling
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:05:07 GMT
Reply-To: Nancy.Feldman@f605.n105.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:105/605 - Purgatory BBS, Salem OR
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23331

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

SB>Hi Kelley: the same thing happened to me when I had to take spelling tests in
SB>Braille in elementary school. Had to write the words in grade 1 braille which
SB>seemed unnatural. Funny thing, when I got to secondary school, the teachers
SB>no longer cared and I wrote everything in grade 2. O well, guess some
SB>teachers just weren't consistent. Take care. Stew

I had to type my assignments from third grade on, so I had to learn to
spell.  I tried writing BRL for braille just once, and that was the end
of that.

Sigh.

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From: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Cummings)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Swelling
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:16:13 GMT
Reply-To: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:375/34 - Batteries Included, Montgomery AL
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference

Index Number: 23433

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

 >      It is a circulation problem.  If it has not happened before,
 > you should contqact a doctor.  My legs swelled in 1985 and I had
 > to be admitted and treated with IV drugs.

I think I figured it out [blushing].  I just sat at the computer
too long.  Since the chair I'm sitting in is an executive chair,
and very comfortable, I stayed sitting too long with my knees
bent.  I think the circulation was sorta cut off in the back of the
knees.  [Silly me]

Linda

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From: Ron.Denis@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Ron Denis)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Nls And nfb
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:07:52 GMT
Reply-To: Ron.Denis@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89.0 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23412

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

C.A.  books with the arkinsone ...

I have only scanned three or four books so far though my intentions
were to do more.  Time is always a problem.  I don't thing the lack
of a book edge is a problem and apparently neither does Kurzweil
ass they are offering regular scanners with some models.  My
complaint with the arkinstone is that the scanner that is standard
is too small to lay out legal sized paper or a "big book" open
faced.  With smaller books, I generally scan as a batch reading
later.  A book placed flat in a "decolumnized mode" will do two
facing pages at once and do them quite well.  I got Arkinstone
intending to use it on books and haven't been disappointed although
it ain't perfict.

     Ron

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From: Keith.Jones@p13.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Pain
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:06:20 GMT
Reply-To: Keith.Jones@p13.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:114/15.13 - St Joes Hospital, Phoenix AZ

Index Number: 23337

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

 AS> One of the difficulties physicians face is that many
 AS> different problems present with the same or very similar
 AS> symptoms, but yet the cause, treatment, and prognosis is
 AS> very different.  That's one of the reasons it takes so
 AS> long to train a physician, and why most physicians specialize.

 IMHO, too many physicians specialize and if you cannot be pigeonholed
 right into their field of expertise, they say they can't help you and
 send you to another "expert" who, in turn, passes you off to another.
 This is true especially in those difficult to diagnose pains or
 illnesses. If you do not fit the specifics precisely, doctors feel they
 may be going out on a limb and subjecting themselves to litigation if
 they were to prescribe some drug say that could help but may have some
 very adverse side effects. It is called "passing the buck".
 Unfortunately the "buck" is human which is something they don't take
 time to train these physicians during the long time they have them in
 medical school.

 Unfortunate also, is that much like our government and all its
 specialists comes the problems of bureaucratic red tape and we end up
 having this huge conglomeration of specialists who are paralyzed by the
 very medical bureaucracy that created them and find they can adequately
 serve nobody.

                       -Keith-

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From: Mark.Munson@p0.f14.n279.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Munson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Vacinni boot
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:08:08 GMT
Reply-To: Mark.Munson@p0.f14.n279.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:279/14.0 - Project Enable, Dunbar WV
X-Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference

Index Number: 23344

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Curious to find out if any of you all have been through the Vacinni BOOT
program, whether through the VA or Civilian community.  I was one of the
last to go through this alternative to the convention Long Leg Braces at
the VA Richmond when it was a research program.  Get back to me.

Mark Munson

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From: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Cummings)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Swelling
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:15:17 GMT
Reply-To: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:375/34 - Batteries Included, Montgomery AL
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference

Index Number: 23219

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

I don't know if anyone else here has experienced this or not, but here goes.

Tonight, I'm sitting at the computer, corresponding with a friend
here in Montgomery.  My legs and feet start feeling very tight.  I
roll back my chair, and look at them.

The feet are swollen almost twice their normal size and my legs
appear to be swollen also.  When I get up to go into the living
room to rest and get my legs and feet up, it's very difficult to
walk.

It may be that I just sat too long and all the blood settled in my
legs and feet?

Anyone else experience this?  Remember, my problem is failed back
surgeries, and chronic pain.

Linda

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From: Tandy.Way@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Tandy Way)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: On the road second day
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:41:41 GMT
Reply-To: Tandy.Way@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:377/6 - T.A.B.B., Tampa Fl
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23193

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

hi gang this is your roving reporter on the road with his trusty
toshiba lap top equipped with qmodem and xpress and boggying around
the country. calling in to his absolutely reliable home system.
anyway this is friday I am at the kitchen table it is around 5 pm
and we went to the johnson space center today. not much there for a
blink to see. there are some big rocket engines out in the front
that you can feel the chrome and pipes and stuff but that is about
it.  there is a guided tour but we did not get there in time for it
and the next one was not until 3-30 pm so we just walked around.
glad it was free because it would not have been worth an admission
charge for a blink. Tomorrow will be a brighter day as the astros
take on the braves and we will be in the stands yelling our head
off. go braves go.

I will check in with a report tomorrow night and tell what we di I
am too far away to get with jeff salsburg. I am even in a different
area code than him 409 or something. some place called jones creek
or something about sicty miles from houston.

 later
 tandy

EVERYONE IS A CRITIC
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From: kak@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Kim Kohler)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Myo-fascial pain & rolfing
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: kak@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Kim Kohler)
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
X-Fidonet: Chronic Pain Conference

Index Number: 23222

renee@tso.uc.EDU (Renee Alper) writes:
>Index Number: 22811

>Yes, I know a fair amount about myo-fascial pain, and it can
>definitely be the cause of the problem. Myo-fascial pain can be
>caused by knots in trigger poin which can refer pain, nerve
>problems, spasms, etc. to virtually anywhere else in the body--but
>along certain known pathways. One way to treat this prob iby
>trigger point injections--somewhat painful, but fairly effective

Generally the initial treatments may be more conservative, including
trigger point "massage" and "stretch and spray" (spray the muscle with
vapor/coolant then stretch ).  "Dry needling" is
currently gaining acceptance as well.  This is not the same as
accupuncture.  There is some evidence that the "dry needling" technique
is as effective as injections.

>I believe the name of the doctor who first worked with this is
>Janet Travell (sp?). Many pain management facilities work with

yes.  Janet Travell and ?? Simons have a 2 volume book out (they
are red, and i believe the name is "Myofascial ????".  The first
edition came out a several years ago and covers the upper body.  It
is a great work, and contributes much to the study of soft tissue
.  Everyone eagerly awaited the 2nd edition which had been promised
for quite some time.  Janet Travell is getting up there in years
(80's ? 90's ??) and there was some concern that the 2nd volume
wouldn't actually be published.  It is out now. I believe it
became available within the last year.  The illustrations in these
books are quite interesting.

I had trigger point work for over a year with some relief.  I
believe that my underlying condition results in (quite a bit of)
myofascial pain and that it is important for me to keep that under
control.  However, the primary problem was not helped.

>trigger point therapy now. A word of warning though: I don't
>recommend using cortisone as an injectant--lydocaine or carbocaine
>are ok for anesthetization, but cortisone can get you into more

why is this ?  I though the "depot" steroids were, relatively speaking, ok.
what problem did you run into ??????????

-kim
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From: Rick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Alfaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Windows access maybe
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:40:17 GMT
Reply-To: Rick.Alfaro@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/8 - The Catwalk BBS, Davie FL
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23467

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DT>         Thus far I have not seen anyone who went to the
 DT>   conventions mention anything about seeing Window Bridge and
 DT>  am beginning to wonder if the claim about Window Bridge was
 DT>  premature or vaporware.

Dave,

So far I have seen 2 comments from 2 different people concerning window
bridge.  One seemed to like it, and the other thought it was "weak".  I
imagine it would be very difficult to get a handle on such new and
different product by just playing with it for an hour or 2.  Sounds like
the sort of thing that would probably require a totally different
overview of how things on the screen are handled.  That alone could take
some time before you actually get down to how well the product does what
it is supposed to do.  If the software is good however, it seems to me
that this new "view" of things would be the first thing it addresses.  I
would love to give it a try sometime.  Windows is cheap, but its real
difficult to just "try" something to the tune of $495 or $795!  I really
think a demo is in order here.  Also, from what I have been told, windo
bridge will only work with a few synthesizers.  Support for any
additional synthesizers would depend very heavily on whether the
synthesizer supports indexing or not.  They claim that their software
will not work at all if there is no indexing.  This means of course
another expense for those of us that use synthesizers like the
soundingboard that do not have indexing capabilities...
Regards,
Rick

... Silver Xpress Offline Mail/Fax System!...Simply more bang for your bucks!

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From: Doug.Geoffray@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org (Doug Geoffray)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: trivia question again.
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:40:21 GMT
Reply-To: Doug.Geoffray@f8.n369.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:369/8 - The Catwalk BBS, Davie FL
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23190

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 CH> Which speech software will support 50-line vga mode?  What
 CH> about 59  line vga mode?  (only available on some monitors :-)

Chris,

I can tell you Vocal-Eyes will support a screen up to 99 by 99.  That is
99 characters per line and 99 lines per screen.  Actually Vocal-Eyes can
support 255 by 255 but the user interface only allows 2 digits.  Humm..
If this is a problem, I can very easily increase the number of digits
to 3.  This would allow the full 255 by 255.

Regards,
 Doug

... GW Micro -- Fort Wayne, IN -- (219) 483-3625

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From: Wayne.Briggs@p3.f26.n392.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Briggs)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Adaptive technology for computers
Date: 24 Jul 92 03:14:55 GMT
Reply-To: Wayne.Briggs@p3.f26.n392.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:392/26.3 - Star Express, Abilene Tx

Index Number: 23258

Phone Apple Computer . They sponsor an adaptive equipment center &
are a lot easier to use than PC's.

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From: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: spanish
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:43:54 GMT
Reply-To: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (Jude DaShiell)
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23435

No grade two braille is very different in spanish than it is in
english and this also holds true for other languages as well.
I have had occassion to sample some of the grade 2 foreign braille
and found I couldn't read it as soon as the writer switched into
grade two.
There's a good reason for this too and cryptanalysis would support
this, different languages have different high frequency words and even
letter usages.  The Hawaiian language is a striking example since its
alphabet has only twelve letters and the language is far
heavier into the use of vowels than is english.
One of the problems with our own grade two braille system and by extension
grade three braille system since three is an extension of two is that
cryptanalysts were not on the panel that created the forms of
braille so the most efficient use of contractions wasn't accomplished.
Grade two was claimed by its proponents to save 50% in writing over
grade one braille when in fact its at most 10% to 12% savings.
That's an illustration of just how bad a job was done by B.A.N.A. earlier
this century.  Congress isn't into loosing money so B.A.N.A. has been told
to go back to the drawing board and get it right this time.
Let's hope that cryptanalysts and philologists are on their panel this time
as well as ergonomic specialists who are specialists in time and
motion studies.  Maybe they'll get it right this time but I'll not hold my
breath.

jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>
From: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Cummings)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Weather factors
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:07:57 GMT
Reply-To: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:375/34 - Batteries Included, Montgomery AL
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference

Index Number: 23216

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

 >    I've decided that since I can't work as a paramedic anymore I'm
 > going to be a weather forecaster.  I'm a whole lot more accurate
 > than the guys on TV.  For me, it seems to be related to the
 > barometric pressure.  I thought it was when it dropped below 30,
 > but my husband thinks (having listened to my complaint :_) that
 > it's more to do with the direction.  Whenever a low front is over
 > us or coming in it's a killer!

What a coincidence!  I've watched the weather channel when my pain
increases and the first thing I see is the little "down" area with
the barometric pressure.  Yup...you guessed it!  My pain also
increases when the barometric pressure falls below 30.  I am also
pretty accurate with forcasting a front moving in, even days before
the weather channel says anything about it.

Linda

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From: Keith.Jones@p13.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Off to Cleveland
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:11:05 GMT
Reply-To: Keith.Jones@p13.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:114/15.13 - St Joes Hospital, Phoenix AZ
X-Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference

Index Number: 23348

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

I am off to Cleveland until after Labor Day. I will take my
computer and set up as a point there. I should be doing much more
corresponding than as of late (I hope). The BBS I am a point off
here in Phoenix is hard to get through on and there are frequent
problems with it for some reason or other when it is just shut
down. In Cleveland it is very easy to get through.

                       -Keith-

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From: pjr@splash.princeton.edu (Peter Rayner)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: advice sought on stereocopier and braille graphics
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:27:48 GMT
Reply-To: pjr@splash.princeton.edu (Peter Rayner)
Organization: Princeton University
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 23364

So, the quest for high resolution braille graphics goes on.  Having
managed the hard part, getting funding, I'm now left with the
comparatively simple question of finding a machine which will do the
job.  What job you ask having forgotten my long search?  Well I am
after some method of producing high-resolution tactile graphics.  I
use the term high resolution here to distinguish it from that produced
on braille embossers.  Unfortunately that doesn't quite cut it for the
sort of graphics I need.

I have seen two main candidates.
1) The Howe-Tech Pixelmaster.  I am currently testing this and finding
it wanting.  Apart from its fairly  regular software crashes, its
incompatibility with the rest of our system (not its fault I realize)
and its speed it has one serious drawback, it is discontinued and
passing out of support.  Given its high asking price I'm am tempted to
return it.

2)  The Minolta Stereocopier.  This produces the Rolles-Royce of
tactile diagrams in my opinion.  I had access to one of these in a
former job.  Coupled with a conventional LASER printer I managed to
produce fine output.  At a cost.  If I recall the start-up cost for
the machine was much lower, about $2000 but the marginal cost was very
high with paper running $1-$2 per sheet.  Also it wasn't automated in
the same way that a connected printer would be.  It also had one other
serious disadvantage ... noone in the U.S. ever seems to have heard of
the thing.  Is this "not invented here Syndrome" on a grand scale?

So now my questions.  Have I missed an alternative?  If someone told
me there was a Pixelmaster equivalent which (a) worked and (b) was
postscript-compatible they would have my eternal gratitude.  Does
anyone know of any suppliers of the stereocopier?  The magic paper to
make it work?  Also I usually had someone in another lab copy my stuff
for me as they actually had the machine.  How hard is the thing to
use?

Ok, that's more questions than is fair in one article.  Thanks in
advance for any advice.

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From: renee@tso.uc.EDU (Renee Alper)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Speech recognition
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:01:18 GMT
Reply-To: renee@tso.uc.EDU (Renee Alper)

Index Number: 23235

Macintosh computers have great systenms for the disabled; I feel
they are the best choice. The mouse is easy to use (esp. a track
ball), and there is a new version of Voice Navigator (a voice
recognition program) that seems to be very good. I will be using my
Macintosh in the construction of my new house, which will be
computer-controlled (lights, doors, thermostat, the whole works).
I'm working with Apple and several companies that make software in
trying to co-ordinate this, and everyone has been very helpful.
So, my suggestion is: fix your aunt up with a Mac--she won;t regret it!

                                       Renee