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 [...]
Apr 292009
Apr 262009
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 [...]
Apr 262009
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 [...]
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 [...]
Apr 212009
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 [...]
Apr 192009
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 [...]
Apr 152009
From today’s paper: On Labor Day that year Clark’s sister was able to talk her through an attack, which was brought on by the stress of planning to go away for the weekend. After that, she was able to stop several other attacks by relaxing during stressful times. “Talk her through an attack”? Maybe it’s [...]
Apr 102009
The Bolder Boulder is the big road race around here – 10k, 50,000 contestants, giant party. It’s Memorial Day weekend. I’ve been spending some time going over parts of the course (the hilly parts!), trying to decide if I want to enter this year. My Beloved, who normally runs it more than twice as fast [...]
Apr 042009
Run, do not walk, to Chewing the Fat to read A New Meaning for OT. Please. Thank God there are still people out there with some respect for accuracy in speech.
Apr 022009
My alma mater, The College of William and Mary (or, as we used to call it in the heyday of the women’s movement, The College of Mary and Whatshisname), is celebrating 90 years of women students: Due to World War I, enrollment at the College in the early 20th century had dropped drastically. This decline [...]
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