We’ve been contacted by Anthony Michael (Mike) Stewart who is trying to find information about his father, Douglas Alexander (Doug) Stewart. Mike, who was one of the children of Doug’s first family and who was born in Jersey, had lost touch with his father who left the family when Mike was 11 and his sister [...]
We’ve been contacted by Kate Drysdale who’s currently working on the second series of Channel 4′s “Embarrassing Fat Bodies”. Given the recent press reports on the rising numbers of Diabetes Type 2 cases plus the further reports on diabetic amputation rates she’s keen to film an item with a patient who has diabetes and has [...]
We have had a very kind offer from a supporter whose husband had to undergo an amputation and then, sadly, suffered a stroke before being able to make use of his prosthetic leg. His widow is very kindly offering the leg to anyone who might benefit from it so, if you know of anyone, do [...]
Seasonal tips from The Mirror in case the foretold cold snap hits us. Frostbite occurs after exposure to extreme cold, when the blood flow to the exposed area stops and the affected area of skin becomes frozen. Is it serious? Yes, and it should be treated as an emergency, but there’s a first-aid routine you [...]
From JS Online The gift of donated human tissue meant that Susan Cossabone was able to avoid leg amputation and return to her passion of horseback riding following a devastating accident. Cossabone will join 27 other float riders from around the country Jan. 2 on the Donate Life float in the Tournament of Roses Parade. [...]
Soldiers injured by roadside bombs in Afghanistan take on rehab rowing voyage to the Caribbean By SIMON TOMLINSON A group of British servicemen, including four amputees, will tomorrow embark on a gruelling challenge to row the Atlantic. The six-man team – of whom four lost limbs during service in Iraq or Afghanistan – will leave La [...]
By Neil Bowdler Health reporter, BBC News Mahran Agil, 30, used to work in a perfume shop. In his spare time, he loved buying, breeding and selling pigeons. Then the uprising against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi began and he was catapulted into a bloody civil war. “Gaddafi was killing the people of my country. I had [...]
A long distance runner who spent more than two days in freezing winter temperatures without winter gear has had his feet amputated just above the ankles. Marko Cheseto, 28, is one of several Kenyan runners who competed for the University of Alaska Anchorage in cross-country and track. The amputations were reported on Monday on the [...]
This past Saturday, Montclair State University musical theatre major Evan Ruggiero posted a video on YouTube of himself tap dancing. By Tuesday night, almost 6,000 people had viewed it. No wonder. Ruggiero, a 21-year-old bone cancer survivor who had his leg amputated last year, had taped himself tap dancing with his one remaining leg — [...]
By Beena Raghavendran From participating in the U.S. Paralympic Ski Team to writing a best-selling memoir, Josh Sundquist hasn’t let the amputation of his left leg define his life. At the age of 9, Sundquist was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, which caused the need for an amputation. While doctors predicted he had [...]
TAMPA – Moffitt Cancer Center surgeon Doug Letson has an enemy. It’s the number 448. That’s how many American children learn they have bone cancer each year, then face painful treatments, the risk of limb amputation and possible death. It doesn’t matter that those children account for just 4 percent of the 11,210 annual pediatric [...]
MANKATO — From a young age, Adam Starr was always the kid you immediately liked and wanted your own kid to be around. As a state-placing diver at Mankato West High School in 2007-08, Starr showed his poise and acrobatic skills, along with an infectious smile, optimism and humility. It’s a personality that’s served him [...]
By: Julia McWatt, South Wales Echo Jul 27 2011 At the age of 16 Andrea Evans caught meningitis, which resulted in kidney failure and the amputation of both her legs. Julia McWatt hears her story of survival and how she’s now helping a New Zealand earthquake survivor WHEN Andrea Evans became severely unwell as a [...]
By: Daily Mail Reporter A teenage ballerina chose to have her leg AMPUTATED after a huge benign tumour left her with an ‘elephant foot’ and unable to dance. Chanel Carter, 15, was left devastated when she developed a rare bone condition that left her with a tumour on her right leg – crushing her dreams [...]
WENZHOU, July 26 (Xinhua) — A two-year-eight-month-old girl rescued 21 hours after a deadly high-speed train crash in east China probably will not lose her left leg, said her doctor Tuesday. “Currently, the hospital doesn’t intend to perform an amputation,” said Chen Xinglong, who is in charge of the girl’s treatment at the No. 2 [...]
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Last updated at 7:31 AM on 27th July 2011 A bus driver who had to have his leg amputated was told by his insurers they would only pay out if he lost both legs. Martin Wells spent more than £4,500 on critical illness cover with Scottish Widows over the past 12 years [...]
For America’s wounded soldiers the battles continue even though they’re thousands of miles removed from the front. Sgt. Shaun Tichenor, 32, a graduate of Staples-Motley High School, is currently rehabilitating at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., after stepping on an improvised explosive device last spring in Afghanistan and undergoing a leg amputation in June. [...]
Pete and Maria Castelli stood to the side, tears streaming down their faces as their daughter, Denise, sprinted up and down an indoor turf field at New York’s Chelsea Piers. It took one clinic for Castelli to run again. One session, after needing two months to learn to walk again. One session, after a year [...]
A one-legged South African man has been banned from driving after he was caught using his 11-year-old son to operate the clutch in his car. A one-legged South African man has been found using his 11-year-old to operate the clutch in his car. The 39-year-old motorist – who had a leg amputation in 1996 after [...]
Author: Alan • Monday, July 18th, 2011 Failings at a Croydon Hospital which led to a woman having to suffer a limb amputation, has resulted in a successful £75,000 medical negligence compensation claim. The woman, who has not been named, was admitted to the Croydon University Hospital, suffering with pains in her leg and an [...]
On the morning of Easter Sunday 2009, Army Specialist Brendan Marracco’s vehicle was hit by an Explosive Fired Projectile as he returned to his base in Iraq. Two years later and after several surgeries resulting in the amputation of both arms and legs, Marracco is the first quadruple amputee to survive the war and is [...]
Toby Harnden Spare a thought this evening for Guardsman Joe Penlington, 20, from Mold in North Wales. Nearly two years after an Improvised Explosive Device ripped through his Viking in Helmand, the soldier had an initial procedure to have his left leg amputated earlier today. The second, main procedure will take place tomorrow (Wednesday). Joe, who features in [...]
By Catherine Kolonko Bacterial meningitis caused Kyla Winters of Carmel Valley to lose both her legs to amputation but she can walk again and still considers herself lucky. In the summer of 2009, she was with a group of friends when she suddenly felt awful and told them to get her to a hospital, quick. [...]
COURAGEOUS mum-of-six Jennifer Clark told today how she faces learning to walk for the third time after an operation to remove her legs. The 41-year-old, from Hollycarrside, first had to have her deformed feet amputated to overcome a deteriorating condition. But after buying her first pair of shoes and learning to walk all over again, [...]
The South African, known as the ‘Blade Runner’, is hoping to educate people about disability while continuing his journey to the London 2012 Games A lean and sculpted Oscar Pistorius politely pushes aside a breakfast basket piled high with croissants and pastries. He stretches out his legs for the day and gazes at the London [...]
Ken Green has been called a lot of things in his professional golf career, but “inspirational” has rarely been at the top of the list. That’s where the feisty iconoclast finds himself these days, though, when he straps on his prosthetic right leg and competes in senior competition — including this week’s 72nd Senior PGA [...]
The inspirational story of Alyssia Crook has captured the hearts of West Michigan and, along the way, has gained worldwide attention. After years of what seemed like endless procedures, the Hudsonville teenager surrendered a portion of her left leg to amputation last Thursday. Alyssia was a few weeks shy of her 13th birthday when she [...]
It didn’t take long for Alyssia Crook to return to the basketball court after having a portion of her left leg amputated last Thursday. Less than 48 hours after her surgery, Alyssia found her way to the gymnasium within Chicago’s Shriners Children’s hospital so she could shoot some hoops. This video was provided to WZZM [...]
Lions and tigers aren’t usually the sort of animals you’d want to get close to, but that’s exactly what double amputee John Reinke likes to do. In fact, he’s discovered an incredible ability to get so close to such animals that he can cuddle them. He only released his sensitive skill after a bungee jump [...]
Zoe Gibbs, the Lakeland teenager whose lower left leg was severed in a watercraft collision April 24 on Lake Gibson, faces further amputation because of a persistent infection. Zoe, 14, received a muscle graft on the wound site last week. Doctors at Tampa General Hospital discovered Wednesday that the implanted muscle, taken from under her [...]
Faith has come home……. Readers have become avid followers of Faith and have taken her in to their hearts as we have charted her progress in recent months, both the ups and downs, and on Friday Sue and Rod Weeding were on hand at the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre to welcome her home. Faith [...]
Life as a teenager is about feeling free to be competitive, exuberant, and happy. It’s no different for Alyssia Crook — despite some not so obvious limitations. Alyssia’s parents, Chad and Karen, are missionaries. But it was on a personal mission trip to the Ukraine in 2003 that they found the special girl who would [...]
A man has chosen to have his hand cut off so that he can have a bionic arm fitted after he lost use of it in a motorbike accident. The 26-year-old, a Serbian living in Austria known only as Milo, was severely injured in the collision in which he also hurt his leg and shoulder. [...]
Proving that dogs can certainly be man’s best friend! Fallbrook Post 1924 VFW Ladies Auxiliary is the proud sponsor of wounded serviceman Bren Denney and his Canine Companion for Independence, Stefano. Denney has served in the U.S. Navy for 22 years, doing three tours of duty. In 2008, he had a 30-foot fall while on [...]
A TATTOOED thug who kicked a puppy so hard that its leg had to be amputated was given a conditional discharge by a court this week. But Whitley man Martin Bates, who appeared in court via video link from Reading Young Offenders Institution, where he is already serving a 10-week sentence for other offences, was [...]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Swimmer Natalie du Toit is the first female amputee to ever compete at the Olympics She’s won gold medals at the Paralympics and the Commonwealth Games South African du Toit plans to retire after the London 2012 Olympic Games Every week CNN International’s African Voices highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives [...]
Standing on your own feet One week away from losing his leg to cancer, 6-year-old Tom became the youngest patient to have pioneering bone replacement surgery. In total, he has undergone 48 operations – and defied doctors’ predictions that he would never be a dad. Tom McKenzie is every inch the successful man. A happily [...]
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan — Flags for the international fighting force were flying at half-staff outside the military trauma hospital the morning of our visit, in remembrance of the latest troops killed in the war. Some die here on the operating tables, despite the best efforts of British and American surgeons. Others succumb to their injuries [...]
Vavra ran on enthusiasm By Susan Szalewski WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER Leonard Vavra was known as “Crazy Leonard.” Not just because he started his running hobby in his late 40s, back in the days when nobody went out and just ran. Not just because he continued running as an old man, no matter what — even [...]
A super lamb born with six legs on a farm at Aughagowla, Fahy, near Westport, has had two of them successfully amputated. Castlebar veterinary surgeon George O’Malley confirmed to The Connaught Telegraph that ‘Lambo’, as he is nicknamed, is doing very well. It was the first time Mr. O’Malley, who has been practicing for over 40 [...]
Matthew Fink, from Minnesota, was born without a spleen. This led to a massive Septis infection that required the amputation of his legs and his arms below the elbow. Against seemingly overwhelming odds, Matthew has gone on to become an honors high school graduate and is one of 100 Thomas Watson Fellowship winners in the [...]
By: Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY McLOUTH, Kan. — Amid the crash of pads and grunts of effort three Friday nights ago, several of McLouth High’s football players heard a telltale pop. Trevor Roberts did not. Nor did the senior receiver feel any immediate pain, he says, when his awkwardly planted left leg gave way, two [...]
A case of negligence has been filed against the operating surgeon and a second doctor for causing bodily harm to a patient. The trial is slated to start in the month of November. On June 16, a woman had gone to a hospital in the Tyrolean town of Sankt Johann for a leg amputation. After [...]
A tale of hope emerges from the devastation as a Paralympian finds inspiration from volleyball – and flies high as she contemplates the 2012 Games. Alan Hubbard meets Martine Wright Sunday, 10 October 2010 Fifty-two people died in the terrorist atrocities in London on the morning of 7 July 2005, eight on the Circle Line [...]
How’s this for an inspirational story? A fantastic achievement, Philippe, you have the Bader spirit in spades. Your courage will inspire many – amputees and non-amputees alike. Frenchman Philippe Croizon, who lost both arms and legs in an electrical accident in 1994, successfully swam across the English Channel yesterday in just under 14 hours, using a [...]
Three people fainted and one person had a seizure after watching a horrific arm amputation scene in Oscar winner, Danny Boyle’s, latest film, 127 Hours. Click HERE to see the article with a pretty action-packed trailer.
The National Amputee Golf Association announced this year that it was opening its national championships to men and women with disabilities other than a major joint amputation. Blind golfers and golfers with various physical challenges or mobility limitations can now compete as associate members of the amputee association. The national championship and senior championship are [...]
The weekend for the next Amputee Games has been announced. It will be held on the 14th-15th August at Stoke Mandeville Stadium. As before, The Games is aimed at primary amputees (people who have undergone an amputation within the last 1-4 years) and will give them an opportunity to experience a wide variety of sports, [...]
The latest Newsletter from Team Anglia GB. Please do support this excellent organisation if you can and, if you can’t get involved yourself, please spread the word to those who might be interested. If you have any queries, please contact Simon Johnston via the Website below. http://www.teamanglia.ukcentre.com Press Release 5th July 2010 Please note that [...]
♦ 26 MILES FOR 26 CHARITIES IN 26 HOURS ♦ The Douglas Bader Foundation is very honoured to have been chosen as one of Phil Packer’s 26 beneficiary charities for the forthcoming Virgin London Marathon 2010 on the 26th April. Each of the 26 charities in Phil Packer’s “26″ project have been asked to choose a [...]
Team Anglia GB, The East Anglian Regional Amputee Football Squad, has an excellent new Website. If you were born without a limb or have suffered an Amputation or loss of use of a limb you are able to join the Region’s Elite Squad. Compete in the Amputee National Football League. Challenge for Honours and Trophies. [...]
This is Tracey’s own story about her terrible accident, subsequent amputation and eventual return to fitness and well-being through her love of dance. Tracey’s courage is amazing and an inspiration to all. We are very grateful to Tracey for allowing us to publish her story on the Website and wish her the best of luck [...]
By Brian M. Boyce The Tribune-Star BLOOMFIELD — Deep within a body full of scars, the spirit of Christmas beats in “B.J. Claus.” The youthful Santa recently spearheaded a Christmas gift drive on behalf of Riley Hospital for Children. “And I want to do it every year,” B.J. Yoho said. For the 7-year-old Bloomfield boy [...]
By CRYSTAL CHAN IT’S A typical evening and the family of four sit at their table, having dinner. Three have cutlery in their hands. Only one, in a wheelchair, eats with cutlery stuck to her magnetic hand gloves. Such moments remind Madam Teo Siew Kim, 60, of what she has lost – both her hands [...]
7:30am Thursday 3rd December 2009 By Diarmuid MacDonagh » A HOTELIER faces having his foot amputated after an allegation of misdiagnosis at Dorset County Hospital. David Knight, from Weymouth, is now seeking compensation from the crisis-hit Dorchester hospital. He claims that he now faces an uncertain future following the failure to diagnose a condition known [...]
A stork in the German state of Saxony had the bad luck to break his leg, resulting in an amputation. Now, though, Dietmar is being nursed back to health with the help of a prosthesis. Being a stork is hard work. Not only do you have to collect enough frogs and other delicacies to keep [...]
By Chanda Temple Guster November 10, 2009, 5:30AM After losing part of his left leg following a 2004 motorcycle accident in Birmingham, Chris Osborne started helping people who faced amputation or were having a tough time dealing with losing a limb. His visits to hospital rooms became a ministry of sorts for him. “I am [...]
NEW DELHI: A glass piece inside one eye, more than 50% burn injuries that had got infected, multiple fractures, and a foot which had been completely destroyed. Twenty-six-year-old Mohammad Mussa an Afghanistan national employed with the Indian embassy in Kabul was flown to India in this condition three weeks back. He was a victim of [...]
This comes from the States but may be worth a look. ************************************** Me, I would have guessed that the fingertip amputation threshold for a recall would be, say, 10. I mean, ten little fingers and ten little toes, right? As for the fingertip amputation threshold for a re-evaluation of a key element of a folding [...]
Calcutta, Nov. 6: A young accident victim needing emergency trauma care to stand a chance of his legs being saved is facing amputation after going without treatment for a crucial six-hour period during which five city hospitals turned him away. Tausif Khan, a 21-year-old assistant chef in a housing estate club on EM Bypass, received [...]
by Elisabeth Rappe Nov 5th 2009 // 10:33AM Cinematical (blog) After a year of speculation Danny Boyle has finally settled on his next project. Variety reports that it will be 127 Hours, the tale of mountain climber Aron Ralston. Boyle has been loosely attached to the project since June when the LA Times reported that [...]
Published Date: 07 October 2009 Gordon Worley sailing one of the Sailability trimarans at Ferry Meadows. (ET061009AS034) Picture: ALAN STORER HE may have lost both legs and relies on an electric scooter to get around – but in a boat on the lapping waters of Ferry Meadows, Gordon Worley feels free again. The remarkable octogenarian [...]
From the Pensacola News-Journal: Jessica Jensen dreams of dancing on Broadway. And the 25-year-old Pensacola resident is letting nothing, including the loss of her left hand to cancer, stand in her way. Leggy and slender, Jensen has the poise and grace of a professional dancer. When she moves across a stage using muscles honed by [...]
AMPUTEE AMBASSADOR WANTED Did you know that there is more than one serious accident per day in the United Kingdom involving Fork Lift Trucks? Were you injured in one? If so, you could really make a difference. David McGuire is currently working on National Fork Lift Truck Safety Week, raising awareness of the dangers of [...]
BY DR. DAVID ABDOO For The Salinas Californian About 82,000 per year — that’s how many legs and feet are amputated annually in the United States because of diabetes. Diabetes affects about 23.6 million people in the United States. People with diabetes have a 15 percent greater risk of lower extremity amputation than those without [...]
HEALTHBEAT: Frustrated foot specialists find too many diabetics on stairway to amputation By LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press WASHINGTON It costs $1,400 to cover the oozing sore on the diabetic’s foot with a piece of artificial skin, helping it heal if patients keep pressure off that spot. So when Medicare paid for the treatment but [...]
By Shands/PIO August 20, 2009 Bria Brown, a 13 year-old Miami girl, calls herself the Queen Bee Survivor — and that she is. When she was only 6 years old, she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare, progressive form of bone cancer. The disease targets the knees, one of the fastest growing areas in the [...]
One platoon commander said of the combat medics: ‘They do brilliant work. You can’t pay people enough to do their job’ Anthony Loyd in Sangin Japhet Joel has a story to tell, but he does not tell it, not really: it is others who fill in the gaps. You cannot blame him for his reticence. [...]
19 August Response To The President on Surgical Costs of Foot Surgery ACFAS Responds to President on Surgical Costs The American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) has joined the American College of Surgeons by writing to President Obama about his recent comments on the appropriateness and cost of surgical procedures, particularly the cost [...]
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL–(Marketwire – August 20, 2009) – Wake Pharma US, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) Seal of Approval for its innovative product, Wound-Be-Gone®, based on a revolutionary oxygen free radical binding technology. In addition to the growing number of professional awards, Wound-Be-Gone® continues to [...]
Tamara Dietrich 9:58 PM EDT, August 20, 2009 Last summer, this community rallied to help a man who’d undergone multiple amputations because of a rare condition first diagnosed when he was 14. That’s when he had his first amputation — a toe. Over the next 20 years, William Allen Honeycutt would lose a leg, half [...]
PANAMA CITY, Fla., Aug. 20 (UPI) — An Ohio man lost both his legs after contracting an infection from eating oysters while on a wedding trip to Florida. Darrell Dishon, 40, of Lebanon planned to marry Nicole Copas in Florida, the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News reported. But he got sick several days before the ceremony. [...]
By Chris Elsberry Staff writer Updated: 08/20/2009 12:45:14 AM EDT His first steps weren’t cautious, they were taken with confidence.His first exercises weren’t exhausting, they were exhilarating. So much so, that when the patient wanted to do more, the therapist agreed. At the end of the first day with his new prosthetic, Ken Green felt like [...]
The name is not commonly known and is difficult to pronounce, but the disease afflicts an estimated 12 million Americans. It’s called critical limb ischemia. Treatments are lacking and often require amputation, but help may be on the way: A potential solution for people afflicted with diabetes and obesity who are facing amputation of a [...]
By John J. Monahan TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF President Barack Obama yesterday laid out his plans for universal health care in front of a town meeting-style audience at Portsmouth High School, fielding questions on the controversial plans and trying to set the record straight by dispelling what he called wild exaggerations from critics. Mr. Obama [...]
In an earlier article I wrote that diabetes is a disease that creeps up on you and before you know it, a person can be diagnosed with diabetes at quite a late stage. I had suggested that those in the high-risk group of getting diabetes should be prudent and look through their family history to [...]
NewsTarget.com 10/08/2009 08:00 (NaturalNews) Jerome, a 53-year-old high school teacher, was in the hospital awaiting amputation of his left leg. He’d been receiving IV antibiotics to treat a diabetic ulcer, a wide, oozing open wound on his ankle, but this didn’t halt the steady advance of gangrene, and he was told they had no choice [...]
Monday, August 10, 2009, 18:00 by Aline Nassif To her patients, surgeon Stella Vig is something of a phenomenon at Mayday Hospital. Her gift is saving thousands of diabetic patients the agony of losing a leg. The 42-year-old vascular surgeon and diabetes expert has received two prestigious awards in the last few weeks for her [...]
By Simon Wright 2/08/2009 Sas hero Stuart Trow had his left leg amputated after being shot by the Taliban during a bloody 24-hour battle in Helmand Province. The brave dad-of-two, 33, was cut down by bullets while storming an al-Qaeda hide-out – ending the career he loved and heralding an eightyear nightmare which he admits [...]
WHITEHALL — Kayak racing is a bit like life. That is, you’re never really sure how hard it can get until you spend a little time heading up stream. Whitehall’s John VanSanden has learned that lesson in spades, not only inside a kayak — where he recently finished fourth out of 40 participants, seconds out [...]
by CRAIG ROBINSON Last updated: 30/06/2009 06:00:00 A WOMAN who lost her leg in what should have been a routine knee operation has won more than £1million in compensation. Karen Flory has been left significantly disabled and continues to experience pain in the affected leg as well as phantom limb pains. Ipswich Hospital admitted responsibility [...]
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
www.thebadercup.co.uk
Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.