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CN8 on health tonight a new product to help the disabled drink on their own something
many of us take for granted but when you can't use your hands what do you do. Tonight Gwen Owen in
shows us a local invention that's getting national attention
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Eliot Spindel is a quadriplegic a fall fifteen years ago after a accident left him with no upper body movement
except for his eyes and mouth
I didn't want to sit around and not do nothing
What Eliot wanted more than anything was to get back to work
but you would have thought the steps would have prevented that. But it wasnt't the access that presented the barrier. It was water.
Like many quadgraplegics Eliot blows thru a straw like mechanism to operators his wheelchair
and he's uses his voice to control the computer
all that makes his mouth very dry
I didn't want to rely on someone else to get me water.
and it not really functional and not really impliable
It's problems like his that got Linda Rosen thinking over ten years ago
While working the disabled residents at Inglis House in Philadelphia she help a man to drink
on his own
I took a plain water bottle
with some velcro and duct tape
and attached it his chair
That has envolved a few times into this contraption
A horse fall left him paralyzed Willis "Cowboy" Childs 15 years ago. 01:24.000,01:26.000 He now jokes how he can now lounge and sip two drinks by himself at th same time. 01:32.120 That's the most important fact especially when your in a wheelchair
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That's the most important fact especially when your in a wheelchair to have your independents and not totally rely on someone else
I use it
continuously and can't be without it.
I went out in the park yesterday
and I filled it up here and took it out there and it lasted me three hours and that's cold water
Inglis House residents make the bottles and they man the web site.
It gives them a chance to work and be productive.
A reason to get up in the morning and got to work.
In Philadelphia Gwen Owen CN8.
Because of the website and trade shows Drink-Aide are used as far away as British Columbia
all the way out to California.
If you'd like some more information about this hands free invention here's the Toll-Free
number for you to call. You can also visit the web site and that's Drink-aide
. com. Incidentally Inglis house got the patent for this invention
just yesterday on Independence Day.
Ironic since it ultimately gives the disabled more independence.