Archive: March 2004
Accessibility Bitch
Apparently, I am Accessibility Bitch.
We decided on the spur of the moment to go see the Seldom Scene at the Historic Boulder Theater last night. I’ve never been there, so I rolled into the box office when it opened yesterday afternoon, and said, “If I buy a ticket, will I be able to get to [...]
Adventures in Markup
Can I just moan here? Most people have absolutely no f**ing clue about semantics. And doing tables in MS Word doesn’t help the situation.
Headlines
Disabled Riders Plan Suit Against Metro (washingtonpost.com)
Condo board sued over wheelchair policy (outrageous - goes in the “things more important the people” category)
Perils of Love
Anti-Depressants
I’m pulling for Dorothea’s take on the antidepressant/suicide connection.
Monster.com
Monster.com has some good articles about disability in the workplace; there’s also useful information even for those who aren’t working:
Great Gadgets: Innovations for People with Disabilities
Interviewing and Networking Tips
Americans with Disabilities at Work
The ADA Grows Up
Disability Disclosure: To Tell or Not to Tell
What’s Reasonable Accommodation?
Entitlement
Why would a highly paid, highly educated scientist with MS be using a clunky 50 pound depot wheelchair that is difficult for him to push and clearly doesn’t fit him?
Because he got fed up with the roadblocks his insurance company put in the way of getting a properly fitted lightweight chair, and in a magnificent [...]
Disability Models
Physical Disability as Diversity
The moral model is likely the oldest, placing blame on the individual for having something wrong with him or her.
[In] the medical model, the view is that a disabled individual has a limitation or defect in one or more bodily systems. The goal in the medical model is “cure”.
[T]he minority model [...]
Wow, She’s Fast
It was great to meet Patricia at the concert tonight!
Passive Aggressive Martyr
I did Passive Aggressive Martyr today.
The boys’ high school swim season has started. This year’s Swim Team Mom (whom I have not yet met) is desperate for help. She sent out an email asking for timers on Thursday, for concession workers on Friday and Saturday, and for baked goods to sell at the concession.
I told [...]
Protesters - Obnoxious Irritants, or ?
The lady who sits next to me at the symphony has a degenerative neuro-muscular disease, and is clearly getting worse. Yesterday we wound up chatting about AFOs and parking and how hard it is to walk up the sloped auditorium.
She told me that she used to work in the President’s office at UC Berkeley. She [...]
Women’s Stuff
Just take me now, God: Epson Printer For Women.
This is right up there with the woman phone.
Medicaid Tragedy
Alabama Medicaid’s 21 cut-off policy, a tragedy: The 19th Floor: Worlds Apart .
Isolation or Freedom?
Isolation or Freedom?
I personally, made a choice to use a wheelchair to continue working and to liberate me from the bondage of my fatigue and weakness I experience everyday.
Perceptions of My Seated Life
I may have an illness, but I certainly don’t feel sick. In fact, I feel quite well, thank you!
Both articles by Thomas R. [...]
Updated Travel Page
I’ve updated the Travel with a Wheelchair page, mostly to add some words about aisle chairs.
Huntington Beach
I’m back from Huntington Beach, Surf City USA.
Sometimes you’re the windshield…
If the two flights I took were any indication, United is getting better at this whole disability thing. Being trussed into an aisle chair is still pretty undignified, but I was asked how I wanted to be transferred, my instructions were followed, and I was [...]
In Print!
My vanity has been immortalized in print - check out the blurb for Gary Karp’s article (Back in the Fold) about folding chairs at New Mobility Magazine.
Adaption of Motor Vehicles
Automotive Safety Issues for Persons with Disabilities
This NHTSA website covers adaptive equipment for motor vehicles, safety of adapted vehicles, regulations and standards, and includes numerous research links.
Hotel Woes
A couple of companies ago, I travelled for business a bunch, but then I went to work for the telecom company, and didn’t travel at all, and then I got laid off, so I didn’t travel at all.
Now I’m taking my first trip with my new employer, attending a meeting in California with three colleagues. [...]
Censorship
My employer, in its wisdom, has decided that the domain livejournal.com is a Malicious Website. So I added little LJ notes to my bloglist to remind myself not to click on those links while using my employer’s computer.
Edited on 2004.03.02 to add: Hmm, now it’s not blocked. Wonder if someone complained?
So 1950s
Via The 19th Floor - Edwards rankles area disabled:
Just because I am a woman who uses a wheelchair, does not mean anyone should be patting me on the head. That is so 1950s.
The First Motorcycles of Spring
In between snowfalls, I’ve spotted the first motorcycles of spring parked outside my office. People here seem to favor really big bikes.
Nineteen days till spring, sixty-five days till the average last frost date for the Front Range!
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