Inspired Spinal Cord Injury Support Forum

mikeq Advanced Member Posts: 446 Post Likes Received: 730 Date Joined: December 2016 Injury: C5/C6 Date Injured: 1981 Member is: Offline Send PM	Life expectancy Oct 22, 2019 0:30:06 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mikeq on Oct 22, 2019 0:30:06 GMT -8 To sleep perchance to dream. Ah ... there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil?
	Karen67 likes this

softballdad Member Posts: 143 Post Likes Received: 222 Date Joined: November 2016 Injury: C6-7 quad diving Date Injured: 6/12/79 Member is: Offline Send PM	Life expectancy Oct 22, 2019 6:51:25 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by softballdad on Oct 22, 2019 6:51:25 GMT -8 I was injured when I was 14 in 1979. I'm 54 now and not going anywhere. Too much to see and do. Too many new weed strains to try.
	sam, moco, and 5 more like this C6-7 COMPLETE QUAD

moco
Advanced Member

Posts: 352

Post Likes Received: 409
Date Joined: November 2016
Injury: Wife of incomplete C4-C7
Date Injured: July 2012

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 22, 2019 9:47:57 GMT -8

Quote

Post by moco on Oct 22, 2019 9:47:57 GMT -8

Oct 22, 2019 0:30:06 GMT -8 mikeq said:

To sleep perchance to dream. Ah ... there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil?

I'll see your Shakespeare quote mikeq,and raise it with a Kahlil Gibron

image upload

tls and mikeq like this

Karen67 Member Posts: 108 Post Likes Received: 20 Date Joined: May 2016 Member is: Offline Send PM	Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 20:44:41 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 20:44:41 GMT -8 Dec 12, 2018 20:40:57 GMT -8 DJ said: Dec 12, 2018 19:27:17 GMT -8 Karen67 said: subaru brz 0 60 Are you into cars too? No, sorry

Karen67
Member

Posts: 108

Post Likes Received: 20
Date Joined: May 2016

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 21:04:23 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:04:23 GMT -8

Dec 13, 2018 15:20:15 GMT -8 vintage said:

That looks great, Karen67. I’m clueless on how you did that. It’s a little like millifiori, but the pieces have a different arrangement from millifiori. How did you do that? Here’s a glass millifiori that I found, somewhat similar to your bowl.

That looks nice, too. You can actually do millifiori with polymer clay. You can combine metal, beads and a variety of items with clay to make, jewelry, figurines like fantasy creatures, animals, or people, clocks, containers, and much more. The best way to find out more about it is to search polymer clay on YouTube. Use more detailed searches like "...for beginners", ""what is...", millifiori...", etc.

peter62 likes this

Karen67
Member

Posts: 108

Post Likes Received: 20
Date Joined: May 2016

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 21:07:36 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:07:36 GMT -8

Dec 13, 2018 15:37:35 GMT -8 vintage said:

Here’s an insurance life-expectancy site with a calculator. I calculated a skinny, non-smoking 20 year old, and it came out 83 years.

www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/life-age-expectancy-calculator.aspx

I looked at that link, but it does not take into account being paralyzed and at what age it happened.

Karen67
Member

Posts: 108

Post Likes Received: 20
Date Joined: May 2016

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 21:15:34 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:15:34 GMT -8

Oct 20, 2019 18:40:54 GMT -8 vintage said:

ibra73, good to know! Life expectancy was one of the things I looked up in those first weeks in the hospital after being hit by a car. It seems like, yes, we average shorter lives. But there are so many variables. I have internal injuries from the accident that cause me pain ‘five years in’. If it were just the paralysis, I think my life would be much healthier,...and longer. But all it really takes is one serious “event” with no one to help, and a doctor who doesn’t take it seriously, and that can be the deathblow to the strongest among us.

I know what you mean. On Oct 2nd, I went to ER, reluctantly because I'm a very hard stick for IVs and usually suffer for it. I had been throwing up for 2 days and nights. Also my foley and tubing had thick sediments in them and my during was a deep brown color. If it were not for my wound care nurse coming by in the morning and telling me to go to the ER, I probably would have died. I had a bad UTI infection that made me septic.

Karen67
Member

Posts: 108

Post Likes Received: 20
Date Joined: May 2016

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 21:26:46 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:26:46 GMT -8

Oct 22, 2019 6:51:25 GMT -8 softballdad said:

I was injured when I was 14 in 1979. I'm 54 now and not going anywhere. Too much to see and do. Too many new weed strains to try.

Maybe it is easier to adapt when it happens to you at a young age, I do not know. I became paralyzed at 48 and am now 52.

I have no transportation other than what my Medicaid insurance pays for which is only for medical-related trips, plus 1 non-medical trip per month. There are many places to which I wish I could travel, but it just is not possible. Besides, most of the places to which I want to go are not power chair accessible, mostly ancient ruins. And being on disability, I cannot even afford to travel to accessible places like around the US, much less other countries!

nathanau Global Moderator STAFF Posts: 312 Post Likes Received: 251 Date Joined: August 2015 Injury: T-11 Son Date Injured: 7th April 2015 Member is: Offline Send PM	Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 21:53:57 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by nathanau on Oct 24, 2019 21:53:57 GMT -8 I'm not that sure it is, my sons fusion has to be redone at 12 then probably again at 16. It might be easier from a psychological perspective but not physical.

Karen67
Member

Posts: 108

Post Likes Received: 20
Date Joined: May 2016

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 21:58:24 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:58:24 GMT -8

Oct 24, 2019 21:53:57 GMT -8 nathanau said:

I'm not that sure it is, my sons fusion has to be redone at 12 then probably again at 16. It might be easier from a psychological perspective but not physical.

Could be, but we all probably have physical issues and dangers related to being paralyzed that never ends. As I mentioned in a response to another party to this thread, I just hot out of the hospital after 19 days due to becoming septic from an UTI infection.

vintage
Advanced Member

Posts: 2,576

Post Likes Received: 1,757
Date Joined: November 2016
Injury: T9 incomplete
Date Injured: March 15, 2014

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 24, 2019 22:03:58 GMT -8

Quote

Post by vintage on Oct 24, 2019 22:03:58 GMT -8

Karen67, thanks for stating your situation. I’ve kept my mouth shut on forums for paralyzed people when others talk about their trips, the hotels here and there, the rims on their off-road wheelchair or motorcycle,...because I want other people to have fun,...and because we need friends to be happy for us when something goes right. But the truth is, I’m just like you. No transportation other than the trips to the doctor. I think I get more of those trips than you do. It depends on which (free) insurance one gets. And I watch travel shows on TV. A kindred spirit to you.

Karen67 likes this

aliyash
New Member

Posts: 32
Post Likes Received: 28
Date Joined: February 2018

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 25, 2019 7:33:28 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by aliyash on Oct 25, 2019 7:33:28 GMT -8

Oct 24, 2019 22:03:58 GMT -8 vintage said:

Karen67, thanks for stating your situation. I’ve kept my mouth shut on forums for paralyzed people when others talk about their trips, the hotels here and there, the rims on their off-road wheelchair or motorcycle,...because I want other people to have fun,...and because we need friends to be happy for us when something goes right. But the truth us, I’m just like you. No transportation other than the trips to the doctor. I think I get more of those trips than you do. It depends on which (free) insurance one gets. And I watch travel shows on TV. A kindred spirit to you.

Whereabouts do you live? My husband and I have been blessed to be able to afford adaptive equipment and a vehicle. We are in Idaho and always looking for people to take fishing, hunting, shooting, or just for a drive. I completely understand what you are saying. Life is hard enough for us, I can’t imagine not having a vehicle that we could both ride in, let alone the thousands of other items we have acquired and/or built.

Karen67 and annev308 like this

vintage Advanced Member Posts: 2,576 Post Likes Received: 1,757 Date Joined: November 2016 Injury: T9 incomplete Date Injured: March 15, 2014 Member is: Offline Send PM	Life expectancy Oct 25, 2019 11:40:40 GMT -8 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by vintage on Oct 25, 2019 11:40:40 GMT -8 It’s kind of you to think of including me, aliyash. Even a ride to get fried chicken is sporting enough for me. But, I’m too far away.
	aliyash likes this

Karen67
Member

Posts: 108

Post Likes Received: 20
Date Joined: May 2016

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Oct 27, 2019 17:14:55 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by Karen67 on Oct 27, 2019 17:14:55 GMT -8

Oct 25, 2019 7:33:28 GMT -8 aliyash said:

Oct 24, 2019 22:03:58 GMT -8 vintage said:

Karen67, thanks for stating your situation. I’ve kept my mouth shut on forums for paralyzed people when others talk about their trips, the hotels here and there, the rims on their off-road wheelchair or motorcycle,...because I want other people to have fun,...and because we need friends to be happy for us when something goes right. But the truth us, I’m just like you. No transportation other than the trips to the doctor. I think I get more of those trips than you do. It depends on which (free) insurance one gets. And I watch travel shows on TV. A kindred spirit to you.

Whereabouts do you live? My husband and I have been blessed to be able to afford adaptive equipment and a vehicle. We are in Idaho and always looking for people to take fishing, hunting, shooting, or just for a drive. I completely understand what you are saying. Life is hard enough for us, I can’t imagine not having a vehicle that we could both ride in, let alone the thousands of other items we have acquired and/or built.

I am in Orange Park, FL, a suburb of Jacksonville, FL.

earle46
New Member

Posts: 3
Reputation: 0 Likes
Date Joined: October 2019

Member is: Offline
Send PM

Life expectancy Nov 2, 2019 1:46:26 GMT -8 via Inspired Mobile

Quote

Post by earle46 on Nov 2, 2019 1:46:26 GMT -8

I'm sure hoping I can live on quite some time yet being 46. It's not hard to be positive, but but interesting to understand as being damaged is of great concern. Hoping I can navigate to success or as successful as I can try to be. I survived a T2-T4 injury.

Site Map	Site Policies	Helpful Links
Home	Terms of Service	Forum Features
About Us	Privacy Policy	Site Discussion
Account	Rules	Server Status
New Posts	Report Abuse	Mobile App

Life expectancy

Post by mikeq on Oct 22, 2019 0:30:06 GMT -8

Post by softballdad on Oct 22, 2019 6:51:25 GMT -8

Post by moco on Oct 22, 2019 9:47:57 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 20:44:41 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:04:23 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:07:36 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:15:34 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:26:46 GMT -8

Post by nathanau on Oct 24, 2019 21:53:57 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 24, 2019 21:58:24 GMT -8

Post by vintage on Oct 24, 2019 22:03:58 GMT -8

Post by aliyash on Oct 25, 2019 7:33:28 GMT -8

Post by vintage on Oct 25, 2019 11:40:40 GMT -8

Post by Karen67 on Oct 27, 2019 17:14:55 GMT -8

Post by earle46 on Nov 2, 2019 1:46:26 GMT -8

Like Us On Facebook

Help Support The Forum