“Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before,” Hager reports. “He aimed his left pointer finger at an icon on the screen, touched it — just barely — and opened the application Gravitarium, which plays music as users create landscapes of stars on the screen.”
Hager reports, “Over the years, Owen’s parents had tried several computerized communications contraptions to give him an escape from his disability, but the iPad was the first that worked on the first try. ‘We have spent all this time keeping him alive, and now we owe him more than that,’ said his mother, Ellen Goldstein, a vice president at the Times Square Alliance business association.”
“When Owen was about 8 weeks old, his mother noticed his right arm drooping. It led to a crushing diagnosis: the motor-neuron disease known as spinal muscular atrophy Type 1. A 2003 New York Times article about spinal muscular atrophy said his parents had been told Owen would be ‘paralyzed for his life, which doctors predicted would last no more than about two years,'” Hager reports. “Owen will turn 8 on Nov. 11. While his condition is not expected to worsen, he is extremely sensitive to infection and once nearly died of pneumonia; three specialized therapists and a nurse help keep him alive.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Joe J.” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Revolutionary and Magical IPad strikes again
Revolutionary and Magical IPad strikes again
Thwarting natural selection has a price.
How much is this kid costing us? I bet you’d be shocked. This is why our health care costs are out of control. And for what? Stuck on a respirator like a lump for life?
Years ago, this kid wouldn’t have lived. Years ago, health care was affordable.
This sort of thing is why I’m strongly pro-abortion. Vacuum these mistakes right out – like Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome baby. Slurp! Done!
This family is selfish. This mother thinks only about herself: not the horror she’s prolonging for her poor boy, certainly not the costs she’s inflicting on the rest of us.
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
Thwarting natural selection has a price.
How much is this kid costing us? I bet you’d be shocked. This is why our health care costs are out of control. And for what? Stuck on a respirator like a lump for life?
Years ago, this kid wouldn’t have lived. Years ago, health care was affordable.
This sort of thing is why I’m strongly pro-abortion. Vacuum these mistakes right out – like Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome baby. Slurp! Done!
This family is selfish. This mother thinks only about herself: not the horror she’s prolonging for her poor boy, certainly not the costs she’s inflicting on the rest of us.
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
Wow, words escape me
Wow, words escape me
This is one of the many benefits of great innovation and technology. There are several stories that I have read about the great impact the iPad is making on several different types of handicapped and special needs people.
Great societies help and reach out to people like this that are unable to help themselves. I hope to see many apps for these people’s unique needs.
This is one of the many benefits of great innovation and technology. There are several stories that I have read about the great impact the iPad is making on several different types of handicapped and special needs people.
Great societies help and reach out to people like this that are unable to help themselves. I hope to see many apps for these people’s unique needs.
I wonder how much Stephen Hawking is costing?
I wonder how much Stephen Hawking is costing?
Aunt Julia,
You make a few points, however harsh they may be:
– 8 weeks earlier and Owen would have been a nice legal partial-birth abortion, but when his problem developed, if “aborted” then, it would have been murder.
– How many extremely severe health cases are we expected to support through our rapidly rising health insurance premiums?
Aunt Julia,
You make a few points, however harsh they may be:
– 8 weeks earlier and Owen would have been a nice legal partial-birth abortion, but when his problem developed, if “aborted” then, it would have been murder.
– How many extremely severe health cases are we expected to support through our rapidly rising health insurance premiums?
Aunt Julia: omg. your a simple sole arn’t you sweetie. your certainly not a parent are you. read some books. go work with the disadvantaged. gain some perspective on life. think about your own place in the world and what you can contribute.
her daughters life is precious. she’d give her life for her child. she’s probably paying a fortune for her care. who the hell are you to say she should do otherwise.
simpleton.
Aunt Julia: omg. your a simple sole arn’t you sweetie. your certainly not a parent are you. read some books. go work with the disadvantaged. gain some perspective on life. think about your own place in the world and what you can contribute.
her daughters life is precious. she’d give her life for her child. she’s probably paying a fortune for her care. who the hell are you to say she should do otherwise.
simpleton.
Wow, deciding who lives and who dies…
Now if there were only an App for that!
Wow, deciding who lives and who dies…
Now if there were only an App for that!
Aunt Julia, cold and clueless and sad.
• Note: “… his mother, Ellen Goldstein, a vice president at the Times Square Alliance business association.” These parents and the Palin family seem to have already established how their loved and cared for children will be taken care of.
• Note: Neither of the above to families you pointed out have asked for money from you.
• Note: If this stupid government takes over our choices and make them for us, they need to stop crying about how they run up the cost when they take it over. It was not theirs to take. Vote Tuesday and get the government out of this crisis. They don’t belong their. But, the families, friends and churches do.
Aunt Julia, cold and clueless and sad.
• Note: “… his mother, Ellen Goldstein, a vice president at the Times Square Alliance business association.” These parents and the Palin family seem to have already established how their loved and cared for children will be taken care of.
• Note: Neither of the above to families you pointed out have asked for money from you.
• Note: If this stupid government takes over our choices and make them for us, they need to stop crying about how they run up the cost when they take it over. It was not theirs to take. Vote Tuesday and get the government out of this crisis. They don’t belong their. But, the families, friends and churches do.
Medical applications combined with iOS4 plus iPad technology touch screen/voice activation helps people with disabilities yet the same tech also makes it easier for the rest of use!!!!
Win – win.
Go Apple!
Buy AAPL stocks!
Medical applications combined with iOS4 plus iPad technology touch screen/voice activation helps people with disabilities yet the same tech also makes it easier for the rest of use!!!!
Win – win.
Go Apple!
Buy AAPL stocks!
“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women’s Rights Movement Organizer, October 16, 1887
“As bad as the economy is, as bad as the war is, the destruction of innocent human life, especially in the womb, is a greater evil, and correction of this grave evil must take place. Each of us has a role in making this correction in our duties as citizens.” – Bishop Samuel J. Aquila, Has America Lost Its Way?, October 24, 2008
“When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women’s Rights Movement Organizer, October 16, 1887
“As bad as the economy is, as bad as the war is, the destruction of innocent human life, especially in the womb, is a greater evil, and correction of this grave evil must take place. Each of us has a role in making this correction in our duties as citizens.” – Bishop Samuel J. Aquila, Has America Lost Its Way?, October 24, 2008
Okay i read the article, he’s being kept alive on medicare.
Perhaps the money would be better spent on reducing the US deficit…. I’m kidding.
Aunt Julia: we’re never going to agree.
Okay i read the article, he’s being kept alive on medicare.
Perhaps the money would be better spent on reducing the US deficit…. I’m kidding.
Aunt Julia: we’re never going to agree.
Wow, Aunt Julia
Your lack of compassion shocks the conscious, regardless of views on abortion. Some day when you’re afflicted by a disease or are in a debilitating accident, perhaps your family will choose to be “less selfish” and let you go. I hope you’ve asked them to, for the sake of humanity.
I truly pity you.