Mercies in Disguise
A few nights ago I found myself in a scary situation. I woke up around 11:45 feeling sore and achy, desperate to be moved. Awakening Kevin with my eye-gaze computer, I requested him to turn my head and make a few adjustments and then put the computer back to "sleep" (I have the ability with my eye-gaze computer to turn the screen on or off by looking down then back up to the screen). A few moments later I felt cold and attempted to turn on the eye-gaze again to ask Kevin to pull up my blanket. It came on, but somehow the infrared camera froze and it wouldn't recognize my eye movements. I suddenly found myself stuck in one of my worst fears. We have a back up alarm called a "twitch switch" to hopefully help me out of predicaments like this. It's a small unit with a sensor that is taped to my forehead and is supposed to sound an alarm if I raise my eyebrows. However, we've been having significant challenges with it. The "glitch switch”, as we call