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The Home And I, No. 2
Being that my paralysis was not as involved as that of the writers of the previous articles, my problems were not so much adapting my home to me as myself to my home. Because we have a ranch-type house it was not necessary to add ramps for my wheel chair and outside of my portable chest respirator, which I use only at night, I needed no other breathing apparatus....
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Title: The Home And I, No. 2
Creator: Mickie McGraw (author)
Date: 1959
Format: Article
Publication: Toomeyville Jr. Gazette
Source: Gazette International Networking Institute
Location: vol.2, no.1, pp.16-17
Keywords: Accessibility; Architecture; Assistive Technology; Automobile; Cleveland, OH; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disability Culture; Disease; Education; Family; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Identity; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Occupational Therapy; Ohio; Physical Disability; Physical Therapy; Polio; Ramps; Respirator; Self Help; Technology & Equipment; Toomey Pavilion Respiratory Center; Wheelchair
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Physical Environment; Science, Health & Technology
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America