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  1. Doing My Best

    Adaptive clothing suggestions?

    Hi all, I am looking for suggestions for adaptive clothing or ways to modify regular clothing to make getting dressed easier on both CALS and PALS. My PALS, Steve, is nearly completely paralyzed from the neck down, and also has limited range of motion in his arms and shoulders. I got a great tip...
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    Condom catheter problem

    My PALS, Steve, is almost 100% immobile, and splits his time between his PWC and his bed, transferring by Hoyer. He has been wearing a condom catheter 24/7 for several months. We change it every day, and it has generally worked well. He's had trouble with it occasionally slipping off, but with a...
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    G-tube adventures

    Just want to share a feeding tube event that I'm sure I could have handled better, and would love any advice for next time it happens (though hopefully never). Monday night I managed to yank the G-tube out while I was taking PALS' sweater off at bedtime. He has the dangly cord and it caught and...
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