People are often asked, with or without a disability, how to be successful in life?  The world today is a struggle with the employment rates and the economy.  Along with the current struggles, a person with a disability can find difficulty with other factors of being independent, employment, transportation, money, education, and this writer could go on.  ........ Full Article

If you do a search on any search engine with any key words of “the disabled and relationships,” you will find many things.  You will find people with disability afraid of being alone all their life and you will find people with a disability wandering why they cannot find a special someone when they do not look at them selves as special ........ Full Article

There are many things taken into consideration with the ADA.  Factors can be how does the ADA relate to your situation, it can be employment, accommodations, discrimination, parking, or violation of your civil rights as protected under the United States Constitution .......  Full Article

Have you ever heard of the Office of Disability Employment Policy, which is in our government?  In 2002, the federal government created the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP).  Congress implemented the ODEP because of the need for people with disabilities integrated successfully in the workforce .......  Full Article

After two years of becoming paralyzed, I started to experience pounding headaches, goose bumps, and nausea every time I would get a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).  At this time, I could urinate on my own through a Texas Catheter that went into a bag attached to my leg ......... Full Article

I was awaken in an automobile listening to the wheels turning and people shouting.  I remember thinking what is going on and what are these people doing around me.  All a sudden, I heard a male voice yelling, Can you move ........   Full Article

I remember one time walking (rolling, no pun attended) into a nursing home.  The odor took my breath away as I gasped for another breath.  The smell was of urine and I clearly could see some wet spots, when I looked down the hall.  When I was going down the hall, I had to remove three wheelchairs, a mop bucket, and a gentleman in a wheelchair sitting in the middle of the hall, which he could not move himself ........  Full Article

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