“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.]
Aunt Julia wrote:
“I’m already sick and tired of paying for extreme means of keeping people alive who normally wouldn’t be.”
And I’m already sick and tired of paying for extreme means of killing people who normally should live. The Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq for example, which cost untold lives and us taxpayers three trillion dollars.
Aunt Julia… U should ask ur government not to go for war. Have a look how much it cost u every year. May be that amount of money will keep u American happy. Pls dont tell others what to do with their disabled kids.
Aunt Julia… U should ask ur government not to go for war. Have a look how much it cost u every year. May be that amount of money will keep u American happy. Pls dont tell others what to do with their disabled kids.
Hmm, Aunt Julia seems to be mentally disabled. I think we should just short list her for the death chamber immediately because her mental disability has clearly demonstrated that she is less than a human being and should be treated as such.
Of course I don’t believe that and do believe in your right to free speech. But if you want to advocate killing people, then I say great. Let’s start with you.
Hmm, Aunt Julia seems to be mentally disabled. I think we should just short list her for the death chamber immediately because her mental disability has clearly demonstrated that she is less than a human being and should be treated as such.
Of course I don’t believe that and do believe in your right to free speech. But if you want to advocate killing people, then I say great. Let’s start with you.
I think we should take a lesson from Iran: Remember during their war with Iraq when they rounded up all of the orphans and ran them through the mine fields in order to clear the way for their soldiers? Now that’s logical thinking.
We should do the same in our trumped up wars. Keep the strong and healthy at home and ship out all of the criminals, gimps, retards and gays (except C1) to the front lines. Might as well through in the old codgers, too. Buncha leeches!
I think we should take a lesson from Iran: Remember during their war with Iraq when they rounded up all of the orphans and ran them through the mine fields in order to clear the way for their soldiers? Now that’s logical thinking.
We should do the same in our trumped up wars. Keep the strong and healthy at home and ship out all of the criminals, gimps, retards and gays (except C1) to the front lines. Might as well through in the old codgers, too. Buncha leeches!
“Throw” – not “through”. Looks like I’m a candidate too.
“Throw” – not “through”. Looks like I’m a candidate too.