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Ellison, who is paralyzed from the neck down, delivered the speech from a wheelchair and told the audience about sharing a room with her mother for all four years...
...tone that indicated I might benefit from a class she teaches to interested adults at U.S.C. called "Your Aging Parents." For one thing, "nursing home" is an antiquated term; her students learn that options range from long-term assisted-living facilities to short-term rehab to building a wheelchair ramp from driveway to door...
...more expensive--for people like the Trapp family of Plantation, Fla. As if their life isn't hard enough already. Eight-year-old Annelise, the oldest of the three Trapp children, is a bright, spunky, dark-haired wisp who suffers from a degenerative muscular condition. She lives in a wheelchair or bed, is tied to a respirator at least eight hours a day, eats mostly through a tube and requires round-the-clock nursing care. Doctors have implanted steel rods in her back to stem the curvature of her spine...
...Everything" began with his wife's diabetes. "She just lost her toe in 1984," he says. Then "they had to cut her leg. And they had to keep cutting it off." Finally, they amputated both legs. To accommodate her wheelchair, Smith built a ramp and made other renovations. To pay for it all and to keep up with the monthly payments on all his credit cards, he borrowed against his house, which had been paid off. "I had what they called triple-A credit," he says...
Boston Marathon, 2000 Two competitors in the wheelchair race are disqualified when organizers discover that they are, in fact, able-bodied athletes...