++++ Daniel Barenboim ++++ Campaign to make Mozart a part of outpatient therapy at Health South, Pleasant Gap, PA. Suggested donation $18. ++++ Ivo Sillamaa, fortepiano ++++ Surprise: Medical resources have found music is good for your health. It is especially good for the health of […]
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Using the parallel bars (not available at home) builds strength and reduces pain
Sisyphus and me I am overdue for a shower. Tomorrow is my last day of occupational therapy at HealthSouth. Last week, I completed the 28 weeks of physical therapy Medicare allows. I asked HealthSouth C.E.O. at Pleasant Gap PA yesterday as she prepared for a meeting and I for a 10th cup of […]
This is my last week of occupational therapy
If I were not a [Jewish] Buddhist, this would be my Mad As Hell and I Can’t Take it Anymore moment. ++++ It is 3:04 AM. I am making coffee. Washing the dishes. A shower is overdue. At 8:10 a Cataride para-transit bus will pick me up here in Downtown State College where parking (believe […]
How I Celebrated My Seventieth Birthday in Segregated State College, PA
This is what a “wheel chair accessible” restaurant looks like in segregated State College PA. Video by Emily Hartsay Cafe Verve received an operating license from Walt Schneider, head of code for the PA Centre County Council of Governments. To receive the license, the restaurant was required to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. […]
Analysis: Limitations of disability housing design
Figure 1.1. Nadya Ludwig in her customary position watching the front door at Addison Court and greeting all 95 residents by name [1] ++++ Summary The generation born after the Second World War is commonly referred to as “The Baby Boom Generation.” The U.S. Census Bureau provides statistics on Baby Boomers not as helpful as one […]
Challenges a Mobility-Disabled Resident Encounters Renovating for Independent Living
The authors of Middletown, Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, were distinguished sociologists who taught at Columbia University. They studied Muncie, Indiana (to which they originally assigned the name “Middletown”) using cultural anthropological technique. [2] “Middletown” is widely regarded in academia as a classic example of sociology as a science (in the tradition of Émile […]
Billy Joel helps me recover from surgery
My lungs are clogged. After surgery at Mount Nittany Medical Center, the hospital commissioned a van to take me and my mobility device (a.k.a. scooter–an Amigo [accept no substitutes]) from State College to Pleasant Gap. There on my 69th birthday the HealthSouth Physical Rehabilitation nurse tried again to get me to breathe deeply–handing me the […]
My credentials for writing an academic paper on renovating existing housing for residents with a mobility disability
This is a photograph of the house where I lived when I lost the ability to walk. The year was 1995. I was 48 years old. I lived with my wife and two daughters–Joanna age 9 and Amelia age 4– in Durham, N.C. I was working as a technical writer for Northern Telecom. Northern Telecom manufactured […]