We're heading out to visit relatives this week, along with everyone else in the US. Ours live in New York, so we have a 5 hour car ride. My little son has taken to throwing up during any car trip longer than 15 minutes.
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Some of you have asked how I made so much progress in my gait recently.
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My rehab hospital has a new exoskeleton for use by stroke and spinal cord patients.
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This week is Head of the Charles, a regatta where people from all over the world row down the Charles River in Boston.
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Finally! I can walk without contorting my stroke leg
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Neither my husband nor I are huge people. Our toddler, on the other hand, is a giant. Lugging a 33lb+ kid around beats the gym. Even my therapists have noticed.
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Choreographer Heidi Lasky has been creating works with abled and disabled dancers.
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I'm getting my back zapped! I've been using electrical stimulation on my arm and hand for this past year.
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James is a scientist who was in a horrible accident and needed prosthetics. Then a video game company advertised for a patient who wanted a cyborg arm, like one of their game characters
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There are tiny muscles in your hands called lumbricals. Apparently my stroke palm was super tight. My doctor injected them with Botox -- Zop! Eek! Not fun
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I had a very sweet Mother's Day, with flowers picked out by my son.
Someday he will notice and ask about my hand problem. Then what? What do other parents with disabilities say to small children?
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At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, they are running an exhibit on fashion and technology. One piece is a video by the Alternative Limb Project, of art and prosthetics. Here are some more images of Model / Pop Singer Viktoria Modesta, who has a prosthetic.
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