Post: ask someone who has a brother with cerebral palsy anything(srs)
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12-03-2011, 12:09 PM
#3
bmxdude9
Million Miles Of Fun!
Originally posted by Winning
What is cerebral palsy?
Well I hope we at least know what the cerebrum is? The simplest way to understand it would be to describe it as a disability caused from a damaged part of the brain(cerebrum) that majorly effects the skeletal system and its muscles making a lot of standard joint movements much harder for the individual to form. For example my bro originally could only move his forearm a few degrees upward and was never able to achieve full extension in his arms until recently since I have been stretching him out. It effects individuals to varying degrees and can also cause mental retardation i.e. slower learning, unable to grasp subjects and so forth.
12-03-2011, 01:14 PM
#6
bmxdude9
Million Miles Of Fun!
Originally posted by ZoneHD
Sorry no offence to you, but why would people come to a gaming forum to get help with a illness..
Isnt that what a doctor is for?
Or one of them advisors on health?
Isnt that what a doctor is for?
Or one of them advisors on health?
Reread the title. This is a thread that I made on another forum and am posting here in case anyone has any questions about having a sibling that has a disability not for me to get help. People on here have asked me before so I thought why not make a thread.
Originally posted by Gizmo
Do your family look after him or is he in a home ?
How hard is looking after him on a day to day basis ?
How hard is looking after him on a day to day basis ?
He currently lives with us and my parents really don't want to put him in a home(he's covered till 21 I think where the school will take care of him or however that works and after that either my mom has to[she will full time] or he goes into a home) the very sad thing(s) about this is at 18 my parents have to adopt him, and because my mom is relatively older I remember her saying that she wishes that he goes before her because that would kill her knowing her son is not being taken care of the way she would. I understand its a big thing but if my life is not too bad I would do my best to try and take him in and help with him as much as I can and if that means I have to give up a lot of stuff than Im willing to do it. I care about my little "buddy"(what my mom always asks him when he cries.. if he wants his buddy[me] and that usually quiets him down quick).
How hard to what degree I cannot fully say since Im now busy with college but I know its pretty tough as Ive been helping out with him for as long as I could remember. Its hard though as he really cannot do anything for himself except roll around, sit up, feed himself simple foods and he has basic communication through several sounds so yeah the majority of day to day activities are done for him.
12-03-2011, 01:35 PM
#7
Gizmo
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Originally posted by bmxdude9
I remember her saying that she wishes that he goes before her because that would kill her knowing her son is not being taken care of the way she would. ..
That's really sad :cry: .
My uncle also has Cerebral Palsy, and up until a while ago he was living in a care home with other people with similar conditions who they thought he would get along with.
He found it distressing and one day he lashed out and hit another patient, so he has been forced to move out.
My grandma is far too old to look after him, and so he she has had to buy a flat for him (with govenment support) and a full time care worker.
The care worker is a really nice person (i think she looked after him in the home as well) and does a really great job, but obviously she has to be there a lot of the time, and leaving him alone in a flat can be very worrying sometimes.
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