Comments on: University Library http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:09:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Danielle http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-5047 Danielle Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:27:08 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-5047 I did that at that age too! I would go to my school library, (which was fairly large) and read up on wheelchairs, spinal cord injuries, care for paralysis...every time I could get down there, I'd go to a table in the very back and just indulge myself in the book. Of course, I always loved the fiction stories too. But yes, I did the same thing. :) I did that at that age too! I would go to my school library, (which was fairly large) and read up on wheelchairs, spinal cord injuries, care for paralysis…every time I could get down there, I’d go to a table in the very back and just indulge myself in the book. Of course, I always loved the fiction stories too. But yes, I did the same thing. :)

]]> By: jen http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-3213 jen Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:05:44 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-3213 We had a set of "installment" medical encyclopedias. The "B" volume automatically opened to the picture of the little boy in braces. Wonder how that happened? We had a set of “installment” medical encyclopedias. The “B” volume automatically opened to the picture of the little boy in braces. Wonder how that happened?

]]> By: Claire http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-3209 Claire Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:54:43 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-3209 I wasn't quite that sophisticated at that age, but I devoured every story about disabled people that I could get my hands on. I could never get enough though! I wasn’t quite that sophisticated at that age, but I devoured every story about disabled people that I could get my hands on. I could never get enough though!

]]> By: jim http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-3205 jim Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:00:54 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/university-library.htm#comment-3205 I was 15, and the small college where my Dad was head football coach (and that I later attended) opened a beautiful new library. The cheapskate head librarian had this brilliant idea to hire young kids, for like $2 an hour to lug books back and forth all day from the old library to the new. My Dad got me and about 10 of my pals in on it. We carried books back and forth for about 3 days and each got about 30 bucks or so, and it was hard work, even for for young football players. Well, in one stack of books I carried (the school had a large and excellent school of nursing and it was from that section) there was a book titled something like physical care for quadriplegics and was nothing but pictures from some rehab hospital in Vancouver Canada. Actual paras and quads, getting in and out of bed, bathtubs, being lifted, transfers, you name it, it was in there. I wanted that book! I wondered how I could take it and not get caught. It stayed on my mind for years, and when I enrolled as a student 3 years later, I checked it out. At its due date I went in and said I misplaced it. They made me pay for it. But not brand new price, because it was old and hadn't been checked out for 2 years, so for I think $10 it was mine. I kept it untill I got married and was moving out of my bachelor pad in Tempe, Arizona. I sure wish I had it back. I was 15, and the small college where my Dad was head football coach (and that I later attended) opened a beautiful new library. The cheapskate head librarian had this brilliant idea to hire young kids, for like $2 an hour to lug books back and forth all day from the old library to the new. My Dad got me and about 10 of my pals in on it. We carried books back and forth for about 3 days and each got about 30 bucks or so, and it was hard work, even for for young football players.

Well, in one stack of books I carried (the school had a large and excellent school of nursing and it was from that section) there was a book titled something like physical care for quadriplegics and was nothing but pictures from some rehab hospital in Vancouver Canada. Actual paras and quads, getting in and out of bed, bathtubs, being lifted, transfers, you name it, it was in there. I wanted that book! I wondered how I could take it and not get caught.

It stayed on my mind for years, and when I enrolled as a student 3 years later, I checked it out. At its due date I went in and said I misplaced it. They made me pay for it. But not brand new price, because it was old and hadn’t been checked out for 2 years, so for I think $10 it was mine. I kept it untill I got married and was moving out of my bachelor pad in Tempe, Arizona. I sure wish I had it back.

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