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...blood draws because we do not have a service in the area that does blood drawing," he believes that he can do a better physical of his patients at home. "I can't give them a good exam at the office because they can't get out of the wheelchair," he says. "At home in bed, you can examine the whole body." He can also snoop around the house. "We open a lot of refrigerators and look at bathrooms," he says. "You find patients are taking their medications wrong. You try to prevent crises, and nothing can do that better...
...left me raw and wide open, no more so than my new friends who had honed their bodies for a completely different cause: war. The military represented the perfect synthesis of muscle and discovery, a place to play out feelings of invincibility. Now they confronted the world from a wheelchair or without an arm. Life looked different with no war to fight, orders to follow and comrades to love. The question was how to fill the void, and with what...
...roommates will stop believing that your computer gets its best wireless reception in the bathroom, and you will realize that the girl you have a crush on won’t be able to visit your room—because the fifth floor of Canaday isn’t wheelchair accessible. We’ve been through three years of these trials and they don’t show any sign of stopping. For instance, just two weeks before school started one of our closest friends was forced to withdraw after accidentally implicating himself in the Jon Benet Ramsey murder...
...those folks who come to conclude that a tiny house is a bit too small, expansion modules are available. When attorney Chris Young, 66, decided to build a second home in Montana, she needed a guest room and wheelchair access for her son Dylan, 36, who is paraplegic. So Young had Alchemy upgrade the basic weeHouse by adding a bedroom on each end as well as a surrounding deck. With no radio or television in their 786-sq.-ft. not-so-weeHouse, Young and her son enjoy the view of the Bitterroot Mountains outside. The minimalist design, Young says, lets...
...missed a day of visitation when her father lay dying in the spring of 2001. She took all the children with her to the local VA hospital. She cared for him after doctors sent him home. The man who once taught her to sail was now confined to a wheelchair and could only gargle the water Andrea gave him. The night he died, Andrea insisted on driving to her parents' house. But the sight of her father's corpse devastated her. Rusty still wonders how guilty Andrea felt about the death--whether she believed her father could have lived longer...