Hey everyone,

So I know we are getting closer and closer to the time of High School graduations. Chances are many of you might know a graduating senior this year. Well I have an idea for you as to what you could get them.  One of the most helpfull things I was given last year for my graduation was a digital camera.  It was actually reccommended to my mother by one of the nurses at a string of hospitals and clinics that we go to know as Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare, but who also have an adults clinic to follow their patients into adulthood at Gillette Lifetime Specialty Healthcare. Anyways, we were talking about college and she said she had sent her son off to college the year before, and her son was going to school about 2-3 hours away.  Her son has Cerebral Palsy.  She said one thing they gave their son was a digital camera for school. Not only this way could he take pictures of times with friends, and the campus and his dorm and whatever else, but he could also if something should happen take a picture of the injury send it to them over the computer by email and then they could send it to his primary doctor here in the cities to decide if he needed to come home and be treated or if he could be treated up there. Sure enough such an incident happened. He slipped and cracked his head open, he took the picture, sent it to her, while she was on the phone with his doctor and getting in the car just in case she had to leave the doctor took one look and the picture and said go get him. She drove the 2 hours north picked him and up brought him home where he got stiches and spent a night in the hospital due to increased pressure within his head.  Anyways I am not saying that this would happen for everyone, but it does come in handy.  I know personally after hearing that my parents made sure I had a camera at school, and it was a good thing too. One morning I slipped and fell, I was actually at home but neither of my parents were.  I fell on my wrist, and it swelled up like a balloon.  It was black and blue and swollen.  I took a picture of two different angles sent them to my mom and called her. She told me I needed to get to the emergency room right away, I called my brother who took me to the emergency room where it was determined that I had a broken wrist.  I was put in a splint and told to follow up with an orthopedist.  The thing was having that camera was huge.  My mom didn't get off work that night untill 4:30 and my dad was out of town.  If I hadn't been able to send that picture to my mom, I would probably have waited untill she got home at 5 to go to the ER. Which would not have been good being as I did this at 9 in the morning.  Anyways, its just something to think about, it can be used for so many other things too, it just happens to be helpfull in these situations.

Hope this is helpfull to someone,

Brianna