Archive: January 2007

The Cathedral Church of St. John, Albuquerque

Posted by Katja on 30 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, religion | 3 comments so far

Website: http://www.stjohnsabq.org/home/Welcome.html
Parking:

on the street (metered, Albuquerque allows handicapped parking permit holders to park at meters for free)
church lot on the northeast corner of property, no permit spaces
commercial parking lot across the street to the north, no charge on Sundays

Building access:
The building is accessible via the northeast entrance; all other entrances have steps. There is no [...]

Crip Etiquette

Posted by Katja on 29 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under disability | 8 comments so far

I’m in Albuquerque for a mission operations rehearsal.
I’ve got about an hour and a half before I go on duty, so I go to the Starbucks near the base, get myself a latte, and settle down in an armchair to read for a little while.
In a bit I look up and see two women, one [...]

Pigs have flown

Posted by Katja on 16 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, st-andrew, wheelchair use | 3 comments so far

I went off tonight, back to the inaccessible church (after much renovation), for choir rehearsal. My Beloved said, “You better pee before you go.”
I admit, I was skeptical. But children, I am here to tell you that after seven draining, gut-wrenchingly painful years, St Andrew Presbyterian Church of Boulder has a wheelchair accessible restroom.
So you [...]

Pigs hanging around the runway

Posted by Katja on 16 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, st-andrew | Comments are closed

St Andrew Presbyterian in Boulder still hasn’t managed to have its re-dedication Sunday - it’s been postponed several times.
My choir has resumed rehearsing there, so I’m going tonight. Since we’re channelling a Michigan winter, I called to ask if they had moved the handicapped permit spaces, increased the number of spaces, shovelled the curbcuts and/or [...]

Hooray for the Albuquerque Sunport

Posted by Katja on 10 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under accessibility, travel | Comments are closed

This is a shout out to whoever runs the Albuquerque Sunport (their cute name for the airport) rental car center shuttle bus services.
First, the buses run constantly. I’ve never had to wait for a bus.
Second, the entire fleet was recently replaced with kneeling buses with flip out ramps. (I thought the previous vehicles, which had [...]

Another one bites the dust

Posted by Katja on 3 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under current events, wheelchair use | 1 comment

Invacare is discontinuing sales of Kuschall chairs in North America:

“Kuschall was doing OK, but it wasn’t profitable for us,” said Invacare Vice President Brian Ellacott. “(Medicare) reimbursement is going to be reviewed in 2007, and we know it’s going to go down. So if it wasn’t viable financially currently, the picture could get worse in [...]

2006 Recap

Posted by Katja on 2 January 2007 | Permalink
Filed under blogging | 3 comments so far

First sentence of each month for 2006 (idea shamelessly stolen from amputeehee):
January: Thanks to my on-going remission (hooray!), I flew last week with only crutches, no wheelchair, and discovered that this made me a second class crip.
February: Disability Bitch is back, with some schoolin’ for cutesy crips:
March: After all, it could be hay fever.
April: I [...]