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From: Bob.Donovan@p0.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Donovan)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Chest/Rib Cage Pain
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:27:42 GMT
Reply-To: Bob.Donovan@p0.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:114/15.0 - St Joes Hospital, Phoenix AZ

Index Number: 24142

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

I seem to have a problem that I hope someone can help me
with.  It seems unless you have insurance in this state most
hospitals would just as soon let you die in agony at the
front door before letting you in to see what the problem is.
Even at country where you can get in, they just prescribe
medication to cloak the pain and toss you back out without
even really checking out the problem.

So, maybe someone can help me on the computer without me
coming in to "waste space" in the hospital.  If so, I would
greatly appreciate it.

Nearly 3 years ago I began having upper chest pains that
shot across the top of my rib cage.  It made me nervous and
I went to a hospital (back in Massachusetts) who checked me
out and ran limited tests and told me it was stress.  It has
come and gone many times since this.  Now it is happening
again but this time I am getting VERY sharp pains in other
areas as well.

For example, Just below my left rib cage I get pains
regularly and a couple of times they have been so bad I have
been doubled up on the ground in terrible pain.  Now the
same is happening on the exact other side as well as
shooting across and being very sore in the center of my
chest.

My blood pressure seems to be fine, temperature seems fine,
no pain in arms, no nausea, no fainting, no shortness of
breath at any time.

I am 32 years old, about 185-195 lbs, I smoke 1-1/2 or so
packs a day, don't drink, don't do drugs.  I don't get
"lots" of sleep or eat 3 meals a day, but I do eat and get
sleep.  I used to be in construction and landscape
construction but had to stop due to a back injury a few
years back and, I must say, I don't get much exercise these
days.

Can anyone help me here.  It seems I had the curse of being
born an American and made the mistake of working and paying
taxes for quite a few years.  Now I find all that means is I
don't qualify for any State or Federal help to cover my
doctors bills.  All I want to know Is how serious is this
and for how long will I be in this kind of pain and being
scared every night that I won't wake up ever again?

Thanks,

Bob

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From: Keith.Bucher@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Bucher)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Recognita Question
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:04:08 GMT
Reply-To: Keith.Bucher@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:129/89.0 - BlinkLink, Pittsburgh PA
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 24193

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Hello Mr. Blazie, I have been looking at various OCR packages for some
time now, and have some questions about the Recognita Software.  Will,
or does it support the automatic contrast of the HP ScanJet 2C scanner?
Are there any plans to make it work better with columns of text?  Will
it save in Q&A Write, or just ASCII or other word processor formats?  In
what format is the manual, and is there any echo in this country or
other provisions for contacting its Author?  Anything else you can tell
me concerning this OCR Software would be greatly appreciated.  Keith
Bucher.

... Mental Floss prevents Moral Decay.

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From: patt@squid.tram.com (Patt Bromberger)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Quarterly Recorded Catalog Order Form - Recording For The Blind
Keywords: Electronic Books Order Form
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: patt@squid.tram.com (Patt Bromberger)
Organization: Tramway Unix Systems
X-Fidonet: None

Index Number: 24090

Uploaded with the permission of
Mr. John Churchill
Vice President - Production
Recording For The Blind
Preinceton, New Jersey

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for the Blind.

Called the Quarterly Recorded Catalog or QRC, it contains a
selection of approximately 350 titles from newly recorded books
produced by RFB each quarter of the year.  The first issue is
Spring (January-March) 1991.   The QRC is offered on an annual
subscription basis at $12.00 per year.

The QRC is on 4-track cassette, 15/16 ips., the same speed as
RFB's books.  A brief description of each recorded book is
provided and the titles are arranged by subject.  Shelf numbers
are included for easy ordering.

Payment may be sent with your order, or if you prefer, we will
bill you.  Orders for the QRC may also be placed over the phone or
by FAX, see the telephone numbers below.

Toll Free 1-800-221-4792
Fax    609-987-8116

                            ORDER FORM

                      RECORDING FOR THE BLIND
                   CUSTOMER SERVICES DEPARTMENT
                20 ROSZEL ROAD, PRINCETON, NJ 08540

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From: Tim.Syfert@f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Syfert)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: aides
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:59:15 GMT
Reply-To: Tim.Syfert@f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:114/15 - St Joes Hospital, Phoenix AZ
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference

Index Number: 24332

[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

->> for "peanuts" at $16.25/hr. He thought that he should be paid more be

 AC>      Whew! Is this typical pay for an aide??? I don't require
 AC>  one so I am one of the uninformed on the going pay for an aide.

 AC>
 AC>  Allison

Allison,

I'm paying $7.00/hr for aides. Seems to be about the going rate here in
the Phoenix area. If I'd only broken it about an inch lower..... would
have been to heck with aides!!!!!

                                           Tim

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From: William.Lewellen@f24.n232.z1.fidonet.org (William Lewellen)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Hello Again
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:28:54 GMT
Reply-To: William.Lewellen@f24.n232.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:232/24 - Altered Paradise, Peoria IL

Index Number: 24391

Is that UK as in United Kingdom?
Anybody: know anything about this problem? In the last 1.5 years, my
eyeesight has decreased by 50 points. In the two years before that,
it dropped 100 points (most of that seemed to be while I slept one
night. Something has eaten holes in the back of my eyes. Extremely
sensitive to light. One doctor saaid it was uveitus. Next said
degenerative macular cyst, hole, or pseudohole. It burns, it's
getting worse, and I don't understand it. BTW: my eyes were already
under 20/50 from a different (normal) problem. Thanks.

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From: Wayne.Briggs@p0.f5109.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Briggs)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: TENS
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:12:54 GMT
Reply-To: Wayne.Briggs@p0.f5109.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:124/5109.0 - National Amputee Co, Dallas TX

Index Number: 24022

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

I've used a TENS on/off since about 1985.I was allergic to all but the
deposite pads with flesh colored tape arrached. LOCATION OF PADS IS
CRITICAL!  Suggest to talk with MD pain management spedialist or PT on
placement. It helped someon thee timw, which was100% better thannone of
the time. Goof luvk!

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From: VFOAO073@vax.csun.edu (Harry Murphy)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Virtual Reality and Disability
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:20:16 GMT
Reply-To: VFOAO073@vax.csun.edu (Harry Murphy)

Index Number: 24001

[Forwarded by Patt Bromberger <patt@squid.tram.com>]

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) offers to
serve as an electronic distribution vehicle for information
about Virtual Reality and Disability.  Please send items
to HMURPHY@VAX.CSUN.EDU

If you know of others who would like to receive information,
please forward their email addresses.

CSUN conducted a conference on VR and Disability as a part of its
Seventh Annual International Conference, "Technology and Persons
with Disabilities."  A dozen papers were presented, including a
keynote address by Jaron Lanier of VPL.  Single copies of the
Proceedings of this VR and Disability conference are available
at no cost.

CSUN's Eighth Annual Conference, March 17-20, 1993 will again feature
special sessions on VR and Disability and papers are invited.  For a
Call for Participation, please contact CSUN electronically or
otherwise.

Dr. Harry J. Murphy, California State University, Northridge (CSUN),
18111 Nordhoff Street - DVSS, Northridge, CA 91330, Phone: 818 885 2578;
FAX: 818 885 4929; EMAIL: HMURPHY@VAX.CSUN.EDU
Calendar Items:  "Technology and Persons with Disabilities", 8th Annual
Conference, LAX Marriott Hotel, March 17-20, 1993, with special sessions
on Virtual Reality, and Speech Recognition.  "Virtual Reality and
Persons with Disabilities," June 17-18, 1993 at a San Francisco Airport
location (to be announced).
From: philipf@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Philip Feldman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Reading systems
Keywords: vision blind scanner
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:18:06 GMT
Reply-To: philipf@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Philip Feldman)
Organization: University of Melbourne, Australia

Index Number: 23974

I am helping some vision impaired students from The University
of Melbourne evaluate reading systems.

Among the criteria they consider important are:

1  Ease of use
2  Quality of character recognition
3  Speech clarity
4  Hardware and software support
5  Ability to interface with Eureka personal computer
    (I think this is an 8 bit machine)

They may later be interested in hooking it up to a braille printer.

These are not in any special order of priority. Different students
have different needs.

Three manufacturers are being considered - Robotron, Arkenstone and
Kurzweil but that does not close out other manufacturers so long as
there is local support in Melbourne, Australia.

I would be very grateful for any information, recommendation, warnings -
particularly from those that have been down the same track.

Thanks

Philipf@ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au
From: Linda.Cummings@f22.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Cummings)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: cancer
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:28:26 GMT
Reply-To: Linda.Cummings@f22.n375.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:375/22 - Ken's BBS, Montgomery AL

Index Number: 24146

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

In a message to Shelby Sherman:

 >I mean,why do people have to go through so much pain? She is just
 >supposed to live with this the rest of her life.It's not much living is it?

Hi Debra,

I've asked myself this question over and over again.  I still don't have any
answers, unfortunately.  I was sent to the Birmingham Pain Clinic to "learn
to live with my pain for possibly the rest of my life."  I sometimes get so
depressed because I can't even do some of the simple tasks around the house
anymore.  Cooking a big meal (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.) now takes at
least 2 days to prepare.  But, I sure don't like the alternative to NOT
living in pain...if it were an option, which it is, to all of us.  I once
wrote a suicide note.  Had it all fixed up.  Got to the bottom, and before I
signed it, I started laughing uncontrollably.  You wanna know why?  I
thought to myself..."I can't kill myself...I'll miss the last episode of
Dallas!"  ;-)

Anyway, we all seem to deal with what we are dealt in our own ways.  With
me, it's computing, crafts, and Nintendo.  I can't work because of my
chronic pain, so I find other things that I can do to keep myself occupied.

Linda

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From: Wayne.Briggs@p0.f5109.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Wayne Briggs)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: RSDS
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:19:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: handicap.24042
Reply-To: Wayne.Briggs@p0.f5109.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:124/5109.0 - National Amputee Co, Dallas TX

Index Number: 24042

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

Yes RSD 1 year with stelate gangillion blocks, surgery on stelate
gangillion w. partial loss of gag reflex. RSD is pain problem #2.
#1 is poor ciculation,lumphatic, requiring finger to shoulder Jobst &
Varney sling holding right hand above left breast some # per 15
surgeries to arm since Viet-Nam, etc. No longer able to work because of
pain. Bye & thanks.

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From: Lincoln.Decoursey@f220.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Lincoln Decoursey)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Use of specialised progs
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:19:30 GMT
Reply-To: Lincoln.Decoursey@f220.n260.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/220 - Exit 47, LeRoy NY
X-Fidonet: Silent Talk Conference

Index Number: 24131

[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

First of all, let me introduce myself, I am (as if you couldn't have
guessed) Lincoln DeCoursey, I am not deaf, or hard of hearing.
I can hear you now "well what are you doing on this conf. then?"
Well, not much, but my sysop is hearing impared (I am not sure if he
is deaf or just HOH) so I use a more generic term, which sounds better
and is less offensive. What brings me is that my sysop made a file
avaliable called "Futurra TDD" a communication program for the hearing
impared. My first question is What advantage does this program have over
the vast amount of communication programs for people without such
dis-advantages?  I first thought that it had all the numers programmed
into it, then I thought that anybody could create a dialing list
compatable with any popular comm programs like Telix, or Qmodem, or
Procomm, or Bitcom, etc. Does this specialised program offer specialised
emulation? Well, I thought of that and I have come up with Anybody could
create an emulation file compatible with Telix, and rename it to
corespond with something like Wang, or Wyse-50 so Telix thought it was
emulating Wang, yet really a specialised emulation for you guys and
gals.
I think that the company in Canada that makes telix would probably
create (if not already there) the proper way to include extended
emulation. What's the deal folks, am I at all right.
Type to _ya later.

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From: Christopher.Hill@p233.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Christopher Hill)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Buying a lap top
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:31:39 GMT
Reply-To: Christopher.Hill@p233.f4115.n124.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:124/4115.233 - Southern Crossroads, Grapevine TX
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 24155

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I read your post about laptops, and I thought I'd drop in a few
suggestions.  If you live in a city with some big computer stores,
have a look.  Many notebooks have the features you are looking for,
vga screen, decent power, hard disk, etc, and I'm not sure Toshiba
has come down to the price reality that is happening in the
notebookw world yet.

If you have a COMP USA in your area, you should have a look.  They
carry some Toshiba, compudine, dell, etc.  Compuad also makes some
nice notebooks.  I have an el-cheapo notebook cfrom a mail order
outfit called Evertech in California.   It came with a 30-day
trial, so I found that I liked it before I was stuck with it.

Try to get a 30-day money back on one if possible, this way if
there is something that the salesman neglected to tell you about
the machine, you won't get burned.

Last but not least, you might try to get ahold of the "laptop" echo
available on the fidonet backbone.  It isn't particularly large,
but there is good information there.  I'll mention one last company
in passing.  Everex has a nice line of notebooks, which have a
fantastic service plan.  If there is any problem, I believe they
will ship you a new one asap, and this is usually next day, and you
simply  return yours.  I wish mine came with that kind of service.

One thing you might also look for is a notebook with two serial
ports, in case you want to run a synthesizer and a modem at the
same time.  I've got a synthesizer that'll do parallel or serial,
but it's really nice to have the option.  Other things to ask:
battery life, cost of extra batteries, cost of car adapter, does it
come with a carying case (notebooks don't usually have handles and
they also do need protection), .sdoes it have sleep features to
prolong battery life, is the ram in custom modules, or does it take
simm's, how much are any other accessories such as an internal fax
modem, etc.

Hope this helps..
 Chris

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From: keith@atott2.irap.nrc.ca (Keith Bourns)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Transportation
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:58:16 GMT
Reply-To: keith@atott2.irap.nrc.ca (Keith Bourns)
X-Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference

Index Number: 24356

In article <24244@handicap.news>, Tony.Albritton@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org
(Tony Albritton) writes:
> Index Number: 24244
>
> I'm looking into purchasing a van and there are somethings I want
> advice on. I need to know which would be better, lowering the floor
> or putting on a higher roof. Which van would be best a Chevy or a
> Ford. And where would the lift on the van best work on the side or
> in the back.
>

In looking for a minivan for my son's chair, they claim a VW Eurovan is
ok as is.  It was the only minivan I saw at a show that would take his
chair without customization. (A tilt Quickie with a insert and headrest)
The floor drops behind the driver's seat. As minivans go they are expensive
but should not need any lowering of the floor or raising of the roof.

Reliability may be a problem? I still have not bought anything yet.

Keith Bourns
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From: Ruthie.Hoffman@f223.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Ruthie Hoffman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Tens units, etc
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:26:51 GMT
Reply-To: Ruthie.Hoffman@f223.n260.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:260/223 - Interstellar System, Vine Valley NY

Index Number: 24139

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

 > I was trying to gether some info on how long the pads seem to
 > last. I wear in tens unit 16 hours a day. The pad are worn on my
 > lower back. The last about 6-7 days. I found that if I use a
 > Cleans towelet (alcohol) that will last almost twice as long. My
 > problem is that the adheasive no long work well in the pads drop
 > off.

I'm guessing you use the re-usable electrodes???  What type/brand?
6-7 days with 16hr/day is pretty good compared to my experience so
far with the re-usable/removable ones.  I wear mine on my lower
back and upper buttock.  I really like the ones that stick on and
STAY on (not removable/reusable) for 4 days approx., but the
adhesive on those is rough on the skin after awhile, even with skin
prep first.

CULater, Ruthie

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From: Steve.Matzura@f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Matzura)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: from the president of syntha-voice 3 of 4
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:06:30 GMT
Reply-To: Steve.Matzura@f203.n2603.z1.fidonet.org
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2603/203 - The Shop Mail Only, Flushing NY
X-Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 24205

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 > If I have spent hundreds of dollars on a product, and I have a
 > problem, how would I feel if I called the manufacturer about this
 > problem, and could not get through because the lines were tied up by
 > people who did not purchase the product, or wanted Application
 > Program training over the phone.

All you have to do is make it abundantly clear to callers that (a)
you will >not< give applications training over the phone whether
they're registered or not, (b) create a demo disk with a time-out
timer that renders the system inoperative and even possibly removes
it from memory after a certain predetermined time period, and (c)
offer the same level of support to all callers and don't
discriminate between those with registration identification and
those without and leave it up to the usership to police
themselves.  If people like your product, whomever you are and
whatever product you have to offer, they'll pay for it--"build it,
and they will come".  If you give someone a good taste of what it
could be like owning and using your product, including a short demo
time period (either upon each running of the program or with, say,
a 15- or 30-day trial period of the software), people will register
it.  This is the D-Bridge concept, and it seems to work well for
him and his product (no comments about the product in general,
floks, just the philosophy, we're just talkin' philosophy of
support here, not product quality).  These are my thoughts.

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