> What is considered medically necessary for the American insurance standard is whatever gets you from the bed to the toilet. I am not kidding. No other aspect of daily living other than using the bathroom is considered "necessary," which means your basic prosthetic given to most amputees—…
Went to rehab this morning and wore Bioness to walk for the first time since May. I suppose I could grouse about the conditioning and training I will have to start again, but the fact is that it feels so much better to wear this than an AFO and it&…
I'm spending a fair amount of time these days working on social networks—Facebook (don't get it), Linked In, Ning, and Twitter. My main idea is to see how and if they can be used not to market Toastmasters but to improve "circulation" of…
An eventful week...I finished my Bioness evaluation successfully and have an application for a personal unit ready to get to my doctor. I started an application to volunteer at Virginia Hospital Center. And I spent some time walking at Lake Accotink this afternoon. Once again, I got farther on…
I just finished another physical therapy evaluation, this time to see if I was a candidate for using Bioness instead of an AFO to assist my walking. An AFO is a brace; Bioness is an electronic marvel. The therapists fitted electrodes over two nerves at my knee and in my…
I should have been all over Wordpress yesterday. I have just arranged to receive a largish reimbursement for a newsletter I put together for Toastmasters, and I was pretty much settled on using part of the money to buy a Kindle. But when I was reading the morning newsfeeds, I…
Angler is the book that's claiming most of my attention now, though E. B. White's One Man's Meat and Tess of the D'Urbervilles are also open on my shelf. I haven't done an update in quite a while. After I…
The 3G iPhone and the new software and the application store have arrived. It's pretty amazing to see how much junk has been released, but how useful some of the apps are and how much more valuable they make the phone seem. I'm writing this post…