Paralyzed

[amazinglib]

what does it feel like to be paralyzed, (any kind fully, partially) emotionally and physically.
what is your typical day like. school, learning friends, sport.
If you are paralyzed full body or from the waist down how do you go to the bathroom, get dressed, take care of yourself, do school work or work work.
do you have invulentary bodily functions? do you drool?(neck up)
just the stuff that I need to do a school report and learn beacuase one day I want to be a doctor of some sort.

[Buenchico]

Try reading some blogs:
http://luisguillermo-quadriplegic.blogspot.co.uk/

http://queenquad.blogspot.co.uk/?zx=b8a8bf27bcf05ed4

http://www.quadriplegicmotherofsix.blogspot.co.uk/

[Eve]

Are you able to pick? The day of someone partially paralyzed would be different to someone fully paralyzed.

I used to do a lot of voluntary work with severely disabled people and in a hospice and have done a fair bit of personal care and 24/7 voluntary work so if you are able to be a bit more specific I might be able to help a bit more.

[amazinglib]

thanks but not axcatly what im looking for the first one was okay though

[amazinglib]

Eve. thxs so much. so my teacher/professor whatever u want to call him says we have to write an essay about how fully paralyzed kids/teens/adults are diferent from waist down partially paralyzed kids/teens/adults. any information that would help me out would be great. and thank you sooo much.

[Eve]

Right ok, got to be quite brief as heading to bed shortly. Ok, if someone is fully paralyzed then full time care will often be in place, relative, carers or both.

So a hypothetical day from a care perspective, in getting up, they would need to wait for assistance. Equipment used for bowel/urinary issues would need to be checked , eg a catheter, convene... and usually sorted before any moving is done.

Unless they are light enough to be safely lifted without discomfort it is common for a hoist to be used where the person can be lifted out of bed that way rather than manual lifting.

This would usually be in a chair or wheelchair. This also gives the chance for the bed to be dealt with, made or changed as appropriate.

Depending on where they are and modifications to the home, washing could consist of either a "strip" wash or chair accessible shower or bath. Special chairs can be used for that for better all round access to make sure all personal areas are properly clean and to allow for cleaning and checking of areas which could be affected by problems such as bed sores, skin irritation from incontinence, cleaning under skin flaps etc...

Dressing would need to be done depending on the ability to move the individual and ability to lift and such for dressing them - imagine dressing someone who cannot assist you in getting trousers pulled up etc...

Breakfast (could be done before or after, consideration to the time that it can take for someone to get up, cleaned and dressed could factor in here) and other mealtimes may need food to be liquidised and they may need to be hand fed and have drinks held to them to drink via a straw.

Communication could also be an issue. They may have limited or no speech so little way of being able to communicating their wants, needs, preferences...

This gives a bit of an idea, obviously someone who is partly paralyzed could be able to be a lot more independent, be able to move themselves and move around themselves more eg wheeling their own wheelchair, sorting their own toilet and personal needs and washing and dressing (maybe with some assistance), be able to move from chair to bed or other places, feed themselves...

Modifications could have been made to the home to assist them in getting about (and themselves about) such as ramps, stair lifts, rails...