It happened so fast it stunned me. After one week in a hospital, I found myself in a nursing home. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised. We think nursing homes are just for old people, but that’s not always true.
Roll right up and come right in, ladies and gents, we’ve got big shots galore this month. We’ve got eye-popping movie stars and Eye-talian rock stars, world-class athletes and cold-facts activists. We’ve got the only openly quadriplegic recovering alcoholic conservative political candidate in captivity, and the second largest sporting event on earth. We’ve got Fonzi, Dangling and Squirt, and Jerry Lewis to boot.
No celebration would be complete without a word from the guest of honor. Here is an excerpt from a speech, the 25th annual John Young [...]
Staying healthy and happy--and free of decubiti--has always been a struggle for wheelchair users. Innovative new seating systems make the ride a lot easier. [...]
After all the discussion, suicide remains a personal matter. Individuals, not organizations, commit suicide. We shouldn’t moralize or psychologize after the fact.
Philip Simmons In 1993 Phil Simmons was teaching at a small Midwestern college. He was 35 years old, married, on the fast track [...]
You get out of rehab, and you're a flash on wheels. But you're no fool--you know that pressure sores can become a problem so you [...]
The parks have always been my very own playgrounds. Growing up in British Columbia, I escaped childhood to the provincial parks, playing in Garibaldi, working [...]
"The material I do is not really handicapped jokes," says Chris Fonseca. "It's jokes about things that happen because I'm handicapped. I'm not doing, [...]
Craig Hospital, in Englewood, Colo., is a spinal cord injury rehabilitation facility, so there's nothing unusual about seeing people using wheelchairs around the neighborhood. But [...]
