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 [...]
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 [...]
Amputated girl will live challenged life Dec 1, 2009 10:55 PM | By Judy Lelliott Two-year-old Thembisa Kometsi, who was admitted to hospital for burns on her hands but ended up with her legs amputated, does not realise that her life has changed forever. HEARTBREAKING: Two-year-old Thembisa Kometsi, whose legs were amputated after she was [...]
South African health authorities are investigating how a two-year-old girl who burnt her arms instead had her legs amputated in hospital. Gauteng provincial minister Gedani Mahlangu set up a task-team on Monday. Thembisa Kometsi was admitted into a Johannesburg hospital, where officials say her legs were amputated because they had gangrene. An opposition party has [...]
Amputee Peng Shuilin opens bargain supermarket called Half Man-Half Price Store From: The Daily Telegraph (Austrailia) November 17, 2009 8:09AM A MAN who had half his body amputated after being run over by a truck has not only recovered but opened his own bargain supermarket – called the Half Man-Half Price Store. Inspiration for amputees [...]
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 [...]
By Seth Robbins, Stars and Stripes European edition, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 2009 Seth Robbins / S&S Army Chaplain (Maj.) Eric R. Meyners looks over bins filled with shoes in the chaplain’s closet at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Meyners says he doesn’t notice the mateless shoes, which are meant for amputees, when he’s [...]
TEENAGER Kyle Bowyer is back home and recovering after having his feet amputated following an angling incident. The 13-year-old has also been fishing for the first time since the accident on land near Ball Green more than two-and-a-half months ago. Kyle spent eight weeks at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, where he underwent a series of skin [...]
A STAFF REPORTER Tausif Khan, the young accident victim who was allegedly turned away by five city hospitals on Wednesday night, can yet hope to stand on his feet again. “His condition is stable. As of now, the legs need not be amputated as the arteries and nerves have not been irreparably damaged,” said Bijoy [...]
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 [...]
Lord Horatio Nelson was giving orders 30 minutes after his arm was amputated, according to journals in the National Archive that illustrate the importance of medical skill in securing Britain’s naval might. A collection of 1,200 naval journals, not seen for 200 years, depicts the horror of life on board British fighting vessels in the [...]
7:00am Monday 26th October 2009 COUNCIL bosses shelved a grant they promised to give a disabled man for vital home improvements — and did not bother telling him. In January, Doug Westwood, aged 62, had his legs amputated and the council agreed to give him £23,000 to build a wet room and an access ramp. [...]
By Emily Cook 12/10/2009 A woman whose leg was needlessly amputated has received a six-figure payout from the hospital trust responsible for the blunder. Doreen Nicholls, 72, was told a lump in her foot was cancerous and that her leg should be removed. But after the operation at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH), Birmingham, she [...]
Meningitis charities are warning parents to be aware of the symptoms this winter. Nerys Davies tells Health Editor Madeleine Brindley how the deadly disease almost claimed the life of her youngest daughter Amber JULY 1, 2005 is etched on Nerys Davies’ memory – it is the day her youngest daughter almost died after she contracted [...]
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 [...]
Aug 28 2009 by John Siddle, Southport Visiter A PARTIALLY-sighted woman with one leg was refused disability benefits…in case she “got better”. Diabetic Beryl Prescott, 57, had her leg amputated in January after suffering a gangrene infection, and applied for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) from her hospital bed. Benefits bosses astonishingly told the former nurse [...]
Comparing Scars Comments (1) Thursday, August 27, 2009 By Laura Bennett Photo Courtesy of The News Journal For Rob Kislow, getting shot was a kind of relief. He remembers a moment of otherworldly calm as the percussive roar of gunfire and the voices of soldiers dissolved into white noise. He blinked back blood. He saw [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Abdi Dhuhulow can run a marathon in just over three hours – an impressive feat by most standards. But what makes the 28-year-old’s achievement even more special is that he has only one leg. The Somali refugee had to have his other leg amputated below the knee after being shot in the civil war. “In [...]
Pocket-knife amputation Photo: INLSA August 07, 2009 Edition 1 A man’s right leg had to be amputated with a pocket-knife after he became trapped under a harvester on a farm in the Free State, paramedics said yesterday. “Quick action by a local doctor and paramedics probably saved a 22-year-old man’s life this afternoon after his [...]
Nick Ternette, seen in a file image below, is angry about the amputation of his legs but learning to accept it, his wife says. (CBC)Well-known Winnipeg activist Nick Ternette was in intensive care on Thursday after both his legs were amputated due to a massive infection. Ternette, 64, was admitted to the Health Sciences Centre [...]
By KAREN ZRAICK Published: July 27, 2009 A police officer whose left leg had to be amputated after he was struck by a car while on duty in Brooklyn two weeks ago left the hospital on Monday afternoon, saying more with a gesture than he did with words. Instead of being pushed out of Kings [...]
This is ‘Faith’ This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002. He was born with 3 legs – 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which need to be amputated. He of course could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not want him. His first owner [...]
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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.
