Word: wheelchair
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...Caroline is released that night. Next day, the clan floods the fourth floor of HealthSouth to finally pay the visit we had come for. Mama, in a wheelchair, is surrounded by her 85-year-old husband, her three kids, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law and her five grandkids-our three and Gail and Scott's two. There's a lot of talk about all the recent trips to the hospital by everyone here, and about Mom's hip, but the acute focus is on Caroline. She's tired but happy, still with no appetite and still with...
...think of Henri Matisse, wheelchair-bound in his 80s, who continued to create art - cutting out bits of colored paper, painting with his brush in his mouth, supervising his decoration of the Chapel of the Rosary in Saint-Paul de Vence - because it was what he did, because it kept him alive. For those reasons, Les Paul shows up at Iridium each Monday evening, putting the final touches, grace notes, to the edifice of his achievement...
Each morning, Kohli, a Swiss national who suffers from multiple sclerosis, which has left him paralyzed from the neck down, maneuvers his wheelchair using a chin-operated control to a table in the living room of his Bangalore bungalow. There, neatly laid out, are his laptop, transceivers and an assortment of amateur radio equipment. His physical movements may be limited, but by using his mouth to manipulate a set of three sticks to work his laptop, Kohli, an avid ham operator, can change the direction and height of the four massive antennas on his roof and communicate with the world...
Technology also allows Kohli to be independently mobile. In his battery-operated wheelchair, he has clocked some 4,000 km in the past couple of years, visiting friends and shopping at the weekly farmers' market. "My wheelchair is interactive," Kohli jokes. Evenings he spends with his family or eyeballing (as face-to-face meetings are called) local ham buddies over a beer at the neighborhood pub. "I gave up the Swiss climate that I loved," he says. "I thought: What use is the climate if I have to spend the rest of my life in a ghetto?" India and innovations...
Someone very wise once said, "A sport is something that you can?t ask someone else to do for you." In other words, if I were confined to a wheelchair, I could still play chess with exactly the same degree of success as someone who is able-bodied. By that definition, chess is not a sport...