posted on April 1, 2009 - 10:42am
During cool spring and fall weather, friends and neighbors gather around Tom’s fire pit down by his lake dock almost every Friday night. Some arrive by car, some by boat and some, meaning me, by wheelchair.
posted on April 1, 2009 - 4:34pm
While I lay on a plinth, a Swiss doctor gestured that I should lift up my left leg. He bear-hugged my leg and resisted its elevation with his full body weight. He grunted as he fought my movement.
He wasn’t the only person prodding and inspecting me. A team of doctors, biokineticists and physiotherapists surrounded me. It was like the United Nations of medics. Besides the Swiss doctor, there was...
posted on January 1, 2009 - 3:43pm
Ms. Wheelchair Michigan spreads message of self-advocacy and inclusion
posted on January 1, 2008 - 2:54pm
Jason Hinkle
Conveying a sense of Jason Hinkle’s dynamic personality in writing isn’t difficult after exchanging a few sentences with this California man.
Online Worlds Provide Places to Escape
posted on September 1, 2008 - 9:31am
Connie Davis is 43 years old, has myasthenia gravis (MG) and lives in Kirkwood, N.Y. Evan Fries, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), is 24 and hails from Charlotte, N.C. And Samuel Kahn is 25; he has Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD) and resides in San Diego, Calif.
Carl Yeager: Artist with SMA evolves from film-based photography to electronic imaging
posted on July 1, 2008 - 2:44pm
Life was good for Carl Yeager back in the 1970s. By day, he was a master mechanic at a large Philadelphia hospital. By night and on weekends, his talented hands played a different tune … literally. As a pianist, he played professionally in bands opening for big-name rock groups like Chicago, Iron Butterfly, and Blood Sweat and Tears.
Man with FSHD commands radio-controlled fleet of model aircraft
posted on January 12, 2009 - 11:11am
Flying automobiles … flying lawnmowers … flying doghouses … where’s this madness going to end?
If Chris “Lucky” Carnes has his druthers, the sky’s the limit.
For the past four years, the 33-year-old from Chase City, Va., has been busy practically every weekend with the rapidly growing hobby/sport of model aviation.
A 50-year-old with DMD escapes his nursing home via the Internet, thanks to a friend with SMA
posted on January 2, 2009 - 1:40pm
Dale Dulaney travels the World Wide Web via a mouth-controlled computer obtained by his friend Karen Wheeler, who also has a neuromuscular disease.
An old lathe, a washing machine motor … voila!
posted on February 20, 2009 - 12:20pm
Tom Mumper, 80, revels in shaping wood into “functional art
Twenty years and 4,600 artfully crafted pieces later, Tom Mumper has no plans to slow down with his unique woodturning avocation.
A former expert skier now schusses the slopes on a bi-ski
posted on March 19, 2009 - 9:00pm
Learning that Gregg Kuersteiner snow-skis black diamond (expert) slopes at high speed doesn’t seem unusual until you see the rig he skis on.
Kuersteiner, 47, began skiing at age 2 every weekend of the season in his native upstate New York, under the tutelage of his father, a ski school instructor. He became an expert skier at an early age, and raced on the giant slalom team in high school.
