Word: wheelchairs
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...once peripatetic Ram Dass gets around these days by wheelchair or, as he calls it, his swan boat. While working on a manuscript about aging in 1997, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He remains partially paralyzed and has aphasia. When he was able to resume writing, the experience had enriched his understanding, and, as he writes in his new book, Still Here, "it gave me an encounter with a kind of physical suffering that often accompanies aging." Had it happened when he was young, he says, he would have been thrown into turmoil. "I can accept more now because...
...therapy room bustling with the noise and activity coming from other patients re-learning how to walk, my father still kept falling asleep. It seemed pointless to continue the hour-long session, and my dad's therapist and I were ready to put him back into his wheelchair and try again the next day. Until, of course, my mother intervened...
...hundreds of buildings worldwide have also garnered acclaim. A Bordeaux residence he designed for a man confined to a wheelchair was named Best Design of 1998 by Time magazine...
...involved in numerous affairs, despite being confined to a wheelchair. The media had an unspoken agreement never to photograph the presidentis legs while in coitus...
...criticize Christopher Reeve. It is not easy attacking someone who suffered such a devastating injury and has carried on with spirit. Nor am I particularly keen to violate the Brotherhood of the Extremely Unlucky. (I injured my spinal cord when I was 22 and have been in a wheelchair ever since...