Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Chloe - 10 November 2008
It is important to me to try to prepare myself emotionally for becoming paraplegic. I don’t take this lightly. I am not so naive as to imagine that BIID will protect me from grief and depression. Paraplegia is not just sunshine and rainbows. The adjustment will be tough, physically and emotionally. Recently I read a book that helped me work through some of these issues.
“From There To Here” continues »
by Chloe - 29 October 2008
It is important to me to be informed about the medical aspects, as well as the practical and emotional consequences of living with a spinal cord injury. The book, titled above, provided me with quite a lot of useful information and stimulated many thoughts.
“A Complete Plain-English Guide to Living with a Spinal Cord Injury” continues »
by Chloe - 23 October 2008
While skiing in December 2006, I sustained a minor T10-T12 spinal compression injury resulting in some permanent nerve damage. I am happy to have a teaser, but at the same time frustrated not to have much more extensive paralysis and sensory loss.
My Back Injury continues »
by Sean - 6 October 2008
I’ve been going to the physiotherapist for a bit of an injury. They’ve been using EMS Electrotherapy, which is proving to be both helpful and interesting from a BIID point of view. Basically, small 4 electrodes are applied around the injury site and a current is run. You can increase or decrease the amount of current used, hence getting more or less of an effect on your muscles.
BIID and Muscle Spasms continues »
by Sean - 19 September 2008
We were watching Extreme Makeover - the Home Edition. This one was about an LAPD cop who got shot while chasing a crook and ended up paraplegic when the crook shot her. They build her and her family a very nice home, as they usualy do. Part of the show involved one of the designers going to a local rehab facility and talking to a bunch of folks with spinal cord injuries. Many of them standing when they shouldn’t have been able to, or even walking. My partner said to me "I know what will happen to you. You’ll finally get your wish and the doctors will be able to fix you up and send you home in a week, walking".
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