Word: wheelchairs
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Ellison relies on a ventilator and a motorized wheelchair operated with a tongue-sensitive device on the roof of her mouth. Her mother, Jean Ellison, lived in Harvard dorms with her and attended all her classes...
Whenever he leaves home now, even for a brief shopping trip by wheelchair or to see a relative, his most valuable possession is his one-page do-not-resuscitate order, which ensures that all life-sustaining treatment will be withheld in the event his heartbeat or breathing stops. "Because it's signed by a doctor, health workers tend to honor it more reliably than a living will that has similar instructions," explained his hospice nurse JoAnn Shenk...
...winging like a metronome, Rabbi Yaakov Ifargan slings candles into a brazier until the flame rises 20 ft. and wax sizzles onto the dusty ground. At 3 a.m., almost four hours into this ceremony, he turns to a row of cripples, sweating near the fire in their wheelchairs. "Are you a believer?" Ifargan asks Gabriel Rafael, 22, who suffers from multiple sclerosis. The crowd raises Rafael by his arms. The young man struggles to scuff his feet through the dirt. The crowd wills a miracle, until the exhausted invalid collapses into his wheelchair. "I do feel stronger," he says...
...waiting room and saw a mother pushing a sweet little girl in a wheelchair. The girl wore a stocking cap, having lost her hair. An old man was called to the desk, accompanied by his son. A nurse explained to the son how to collect a stool sample. And then a stocky woman in white called my name and led me down the hall to an examining room and told me to strip to my shorts and don a small gown. She was friendly and matter of fact in the manner of small-town Lutherans, and I could imagine striking...
...need for a real Patients' Bill of Rights, and the crowd was really roaring. Tipper noticed a woman crying softly near the front of the crowd. Afterwards, we both went up to her and asked her what was wrong. She explained that her daughter had a prescription for a wheelchair, but her HMO wouldn't pay for it. I promised her I would fight for her, and help her stand up against the powerful interests...