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I got 99 problems, palsy is just one
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
The only true disability is a crushed spirit
war between paralyzed telepaths.
There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.
A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed - caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who
Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.
I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.
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When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf.
Drowning in a sea of logic
this monstrous state of palsy
Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease, a rare and debilitating neurological disorder.
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about ... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up ... Your muscles trick you; they did me.
I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head.
There is nothing more important one mortal man can do for another, in the area of restoring health, other than correct vertebral subluxations, step back and allow the innate intelligence of the body to express itself.
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again.
What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him:
Once a year my back will go out and it'll be ... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.
He who limps is still walking.
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Neurology's favourite word is 'deficit', denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties).
The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.
I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.
But here's something I bet you already know, deep down. It's your brain that's hurting, and blaming it on your leg. Brains are crafty that way.
Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.
Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs
and arms used to be. That's how his mind
felt - like his missing memories were aching.
If I'm writing, at least I don't feel as paralyzed.
This paralysis is my greatest mercy.7
Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.
Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.
I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.
In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.
Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.
It's Parkinson's. And if you talk about it again the way you just did, I'll be the one to take some of your teeth out the hard way. Understand?
It is better to be handicapped in both arms and legs than to be crippled in the mind.
There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
In her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field
You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.
I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.
You don't limp at all. Your recovery is going well."
"Yes." Though whether someone ever fully recovered from losing a limb, he didn't know. He sure as hell hadn't. It had been five years, and still there were days when the pain in his nonexistent leg was enough to drive him out of his mind.
Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.
Some days you see lots of people on crutches.
In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.
An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute.
It's happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm.
shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I
Someone severed the link between my brain and my fingers.
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.
Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing.
Do you have some sort of walking disorder? One foot in front of the other. It's real simple.
Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving out. Keep going.
I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.
You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the mother, advocate and protector of a child with a disability.
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm!
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
she'd had to get good at being crippled.
I go to my physical therapist to keep fighting it and one of them told me if you don't use it, you lose it, but I know we're on television so I won't say what I would often say.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel
Meeting people of different kinds,
Remember that being handicapped
Is only a state of mind
leg in an amputee. Over the centuries, medical treatment had become quite adept at fixing parts of the body that were broken: a shattered bone, or even a shattered mind;
Strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse),
There's no medical term for what I've got.
Parkinson's dementia. Or was it something else? Only time would
Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.
It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to the patients. Doing a demonstration in a stadium is something very much outside our routine in robotics. It's never been done before.
I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.
My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen - numb.
Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.
I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
Some call it Down's Syndrome
I call it Up's Syndrome.
It's easier if you do a handstand,' commented Rebus. 'What is?' 'Talking out of your arse.
What happened?"
"You fell."
"Really? What did I fall into?"
"My fist."
"That explains the headache.
I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.
In Parkinson disease, double vision arises from the inability of the eyes to keep pace with each other.
I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
Some men live with an invisible limp,
stagger, or drag
a leg. Their sons are often angry.
Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.
I'm double-jointed. I can put my legs over my head, which freaks people out.
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
When some of the neural "lights" in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls "anhedonia" - a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world.
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.