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Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled (Large Print)
Waist-High in the World A Life Among the Nondisabled - Large Print Author:Nancy Mairs Essayist Nancy Mairs, who is fierce and funny by turns, landed in a wheelchair years ago due to degenerative multiple sclerosis. In this book she explores issues of disability -- how it affects and shapes one's life from the details of physical care to the broad sweep of care giving in general. — One candid, pained essay tells of longing to give ... more »care, not just accept it. Others describe the shifting line in the sands marking limits she could live with; teeth-grinding frustration at foolish building practices that keep even public bathrooms out of her reach; and a discomforting adventure as an undercover agent exposing a drug fraud aimed at people with diseases like MS.« less