Wheelchair Blanket

I have known her since she was in her late 60's and her health has been getting worse every year it seems. She can't hear well, can't see well and is confined to a wheelchair. She still knows who people are, so that's good. I have given her lap blankets in the past because she always says that she is cold. But I want to give her something else. Please help me with some ideas.

Perhaps the best gift is just your time.

2009-07-15 13:15:17 by Bad Hair Everyday

My hubby is in a wheelchair, and having a heated throw tethered to an electrical outlet can be cumbursome and even dangerous. He won't be using it in the car, so an adapter with a 12v isn't a help for daytime use.
I can't seem to find anyone who manufactures heated throws or blankets that use C or D cell batteries. Is this even a product made out there? Surely campers would use something like this????

Websites, suggestions are appreciated!
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I checked out the Hammer..site and called their customer service line. They do not offer what I am looking for.

More suggestions, please!
There are some available that I found, but V E R Y expensive. They use NiMH battery packs and the more affordable models only hold 2 hrs of power. Here is a link to one I found:
http://www.batteryspace.com/index.asp?Pa geAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=4104

Sadly, these do not exist. Batteries just cannot generate enough power to make them work. I do have a solution, though. Buy a heated towel rack and two 100% cotton blankets. Be sure to use 100% cotton blankets to avoid melting.

Heat the blankets on the towel rack and switch them out as needed. Helpful hint: cover the warm blanket on his legs with another one of silk or fleece to help keep the heat in. Not a perfect solution, but a safer alternative.

2008-01-22 19:04:43 by Kim Y

The blanket has a roomy front pocket and a velcro patch for securing the blanket behind the legs.
Navy plush fleece 36" by 42" Wheelchair Blanket has two velcro straps on each side to secure the blanket to the rear and side frame of the chair.

Hi, I am looking for donations for a very special group of children who live in vietnam. They live in a home for abadoned and disabled children. There are 16 children with 8 nuns caring for them. The children spend most of the day on the hard floor or in a crib and share a few outfits, one baby bottle and 2 wheelchairs that most of them cannot sit up in. I am looking to send them used clothing (any sizes will help), bottles, sippy cups, diapers, blankets, towels, washcloths, bibs, pillows, toys, and also any type of special equipment for disabled children....wheelchairs, seats, gait trainers, standers....anything will help these children. They also take donations at the website. If anyone can donate any type of supplies, I will take them! They also need medical supplies...thermometers, medications (otc), lotions, soaps, cremes, Please contact me at:
littledeaftink@yahoo.com

http://www.forgottenpeople.net

I went out to the website and I think it is Great what all of you are doing. Trust me I will pass your link onto other people I know to see wha they can do as well.

Keep up the good work. It is nice to know someone still cares about the disabled children in need of help.

Bless You!!!!!!!!! :)

2007-05-24 19:21:30 by littledeaftink

Price: $24.99 $11.74

Roomy 41 by 30-inch
Product features: 2 hook and loop straps to secure to wheelchair
Tapers at bottom to avoid getting caught in wheels

anybody know the title of a korean movie where a mermaid is disguised as a normal human, and placed on a wheelchair where her tail is covered with blanket and she always stays on a tub? thanks!

Dyesebel (1978): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359196/

Summary:
"Dyesebel (Alma Moreno) was a mermaid born to a rich couple. The husband claimed his wife had an affair with a merman. Still loving and accepting, they moved to their beachhouse where Dyesebel was kept in a wheelchair covered with a blanket to hide her tail. It was only her parents and her nanny who knew her identity as a mermaid. As she grew up into a lady mermaid (still on shore) the family hires Fredo and his dad as their gardener. Fredo and Dyesebel fall in love and after Dyesebel reveals herself to Fredo, they decide to get married (complete with Dyesebel wearing a wedding gown, in a fishtail). Shortly after they got married, Dyesebel's parents died in a plane crash. Then, Dyesebel discovered that Fredo is a womanizer. In full despair, she heard (after a long, long time) the ocean calling her and she joined the mermaid kingdom. Trying to be happy, she admitted that she misses Fredo and asks Banak (Nova Villa) how to be become human. She leads her to Dyangga (Bella Flores), a human octopus, where with the help of a merman friend, kills Dyangga to get the magical pearl on her head. She becomes human for an hour or so, only to break up with Fredo and decide to be a mermaid forever, and live in the ocean she was deprived from since birth."

2009-09-28 16:51:00 by pinkpiggy

The Window

Meghan stared out of the window. She sleepily tried to contemplate life. It was all too much. Sleep would not overtake her. Peace could not be made yet. Answers eluded her at that moment. All of this happened for a reason. It would be revealed in God’s time. The vastness of the world struck her. White winter light blared in midafternoon. Charcoal roads whirred past monotonously. Dry beige cornfields multiplied with the miles. Tepid air choked her. Her body unfolded like a switchblade. The back seat hurt her knees. A wheelchair flanked her right side. A duffle bag flanked her left. She felt like a pharaoh entombed among the things of her former life. What would be kept and what discarded? She couldn’t be completely sure. That hideous hospital wheelchair would go. Aidan’s blanket would stay. The droning engine spared all conversation. Meghan was thankful unsure of what to say. She was grateful to her driver. But what else was he?
This is a rough draft of part of it. It has been copyrighted as well.

I agree with other criticisms, you are clearly talented but there are a few problems. As others said, your sentances are too short and you use too many analogies that, as fluid and impressive as they may be, detract from the impact of your piece. Also, your sentances are a little awkward. "Peace could not be made yet" and "Answers eluded her at that moment" only complicate your point, that she can't get to sleep becuase she's thinking too much. You could probably get that point across in one or two sentances rather than five, don't be afraid to use the word "and" and commas to lengthen your sentances and convey your ideas with artistic simplicity

2007-02-03 08:53:45 by Stacye S