Archive: April 2009
No, it was all a mistake!
It turns out that the AGREEMENT that I was asked to sign in order to participate in the Bolder Boulder was not for the likes of me, only for participants pushing someone else. This has become clear after a day-long communications comedy that included the following: Someone from the Bolder Boulder called my husband to [...]
(Full Post)What’s Missing from Your Website?
I came across a couple of nice items on the website of the Access Center for Independent Living in Dayton, Ohio: Myths about Disability Talking about Disability Then I noticed a blog link on these pages, but it didn’t seem to be valid. In fact, every link in the footer links to the same page [...]
(Full Post)Am I the Pusher of the “Conveyance”?
I registered for the Bolder Boulder today. I got to sign a special agreement. Here it is: AGREEMENT This Agreement is made between BolderBOULDER, Inc., the producer of the DICK’S Sporting Goods BolderBOULDER road race held on Memorial Day of every year in Boulder, Colorado, and the undersigned. WHEREAS, the undersigned wishes to participate in [...]
(Full Post)Silica and the Inventor of the Electron Microscope
Other people with chronic illnesses report that they are frequently accosted by people who press weird cures on them. This doesn’t seem to happen to me very often (maybe I scare them away), but it did the other day. A kind of hippie-ish guy fell in with me as I was crossing the street. He [...]
(Full Post)Paralysis Study
A new study, funded by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, shows that paralysis is more common among the US population than has been thought. Instead of 250,000 Americans paralyzed by spinal cord injury (SCI), the study shows that the number is more like 1,275,000. The two big surprises for me were the number of [...]
(Full Post)People who Know
They’re out there: From Chewing the Fat: I was trusting this kid with my mobility. I was going on a trip in minutes, I started to change my mind just as he looked up at me and said, ‘I know.’ From Wheelie Catholic: I didn’t have to leave a cone to remind people not to [...]
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