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		<title>Special Aids can Still be Simple!</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2012/04/special-aids-can-still-be-simple.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=1073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson Have you noticed that technology is constantly changing the product as we know it, adding more whizzes and bangs and making physical participation in life less and less? Let’s look no further than that simple black and white television of yesteryear which, dare I say, came into my family’s life as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loss of Limb or Loss of Use?</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2012/03/loss-of-limb-or-loss-of-use.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=1033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it’s loss of limb or loss of use, quality of life is affected. Impaired use can come about in so many ways and getting to grips with lifestyle changes won’t happen overnight. Okay, you have lost the use of your left arm and hand. This isn’t your dominant hand but think about when you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to Grip with Bad Grip (and the aids that can help!)</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2012/03/grip-aid.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Life isn’t so easy when you have some fingers missing and the difficulty isn’t easy to describe either, because it depends on which fingers you don’t have. Take for instance that one of your thumbs is missing. Grip is now seriously affected, because it’s that wrapping your fingers around something that makes for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping your Eyes on the Job in Hand: Solutions for your Eyesight Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2012/01/keeping-your-eyes-on-the-job-in-hand-solutions-for-your-eyesight-problems.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal story]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=1006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson When eyesight goes wrong, it leaves you with a myriad of changes and, though it is impossible to generalise, you are almost always left with a need to re-assess your lifestyle. Doing so may also affect the lives of those close to you, as shared responsibilities become less accessible or you find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense of it All</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/10/making-sense-of-it-all.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Suggestions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eyesight]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[touch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson The five senses – sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.  Though we can’t imagine life without them, we probably don’t know how valuable they are until they’re not there anymore.Sight is so very important.  They do say that only five per cent of people registered blind can’t see but we’re still talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Caught Short and Personal Hygiene: Some Solutions</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/10/being-caught-short-and-personal-hygiene-some-solutions.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[product information]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been caught short? I have but it’s always been my own fault. ‘I must finish what I’m doing, before I go to the loo’ or ‘ten minutes and I’ll be home’ – that kind of thing. And there are certain trigger points too, like when the key goes in the door lock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sciatica: Untrapping that trapped nerve</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/sciatica-untrapping-that-trapped-nerve.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/sciatica-untrapping-that-trapped-nerve.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sciatica]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson Denise explores Sciatica, the problems it causes, and the solutions and aids that can help. Have you ever had a trapped nerve in your leg – you know, at the point where that ball of the femur bone fits into the hip socket? If you haven’t, let me tell you that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acute v. Chronic: Just what is the difference?</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/acute-chronicdifference.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/08/acute-chronicdifference.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compulsive obstructive pulmonary disease]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Denise, her battle with chronic COPD (compulsive obstructive pulmonary disease), and the aids that helped. By Denise Watson Doctor to Patient – “Mrs. Smith, you have acute angina.” Patient’s response – “Now doctor, I haven’t come here to be admired.” Just what does ‘acute’ mean and is ‘chronic’ better or worse? When my doctor told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special aids to make your life a whole lot better!</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/07/special-aids-for-all.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/07/special-aids-for-all.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Suggestions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[aids]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The majority of us go through life as independent human beings, doing most things for ourselves and paying for those ‘out of the norm of home life’ things, such as getting the car repaired, replacing the roof and even having a haircut. Those born with disabilities will have differences in their lifestyles that have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Hip Surgery is Not a Time to be Taken Lying Down!</title>
		<link>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/07/post-hip-surgery-is-not-a-time-to-be-taken-lying-down.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/2011/07/post-hip-surgery-is-not-a-time-to-be-taken-lying-down.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arthritis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denise]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thedisabledshop.com/Blog/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denise Watson It’s hard to imagine, isn’t it? Your whole bone structure comes together to allow you to do what you do – sit, stretch, walk, run, work, play – and someone comes along and removes one of your hip bones.  We all the know the song ‘your hip bone’s connected to your thigh [...]]]></description>
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