Wheelchair Mom

New Wheelchair Technology Uses Tongue Ring for Mobility

December 9, 2013

There may be a new, medical reason for disabled individuals to get a tongue piercing. Strange as it may seem, a professor at Georgia Tech, Maysam Ghovanloo, is working on a new wheelchair technology that would allow individuals with spinal cord injuries to control their power chairs and other devices through a magnet in metal…

Today is Give to the Max Day

November 14, 2013

Last year, I was introduced to the Madison Claire Foundation and I am happy to say that the foundation is still working hard to make their accessible playground a success. The foundation and playground are named after a beautiful little girl taken away much too soon because of SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy), which is under the…

Filling an Accessible Garden Box

May 13, 2013

So now that my garden box has been built and placed in the yard where it’s easily accessible (aka, a relatively flat spot in the yard where I’m less likely to get stuck), it was time to fill the sucker. Wait . . . HOW much dirt will this hold? Holy crap, did I…

Building an Accessible Garden Box

April 29, 2013

Last Summer, I had an intense desire to start a garden. Yes, you read that right. Summer. I’m not the greatest at planning ahead at times. So this year, the gardening bug hit me early and Ben made me a simple garden box – something that was easy for me to reach from my wheelchair,…

Disability Searches that Landed You on this Blog: Answered

March 25, 2013

One blogging trick that most of us use, is to check search engine inquiries that land people on our sites. It should come as no surprise that, a lot of my search engine results are questions about disabilities. And being the awesome, I-will-answer-anything-you-ask, crippled girl that I am, I felt that many of these burning questions require a…