I recently posted a blog about an interview I had with Henry, a man in his 60s who had sustained a hemiplegic spinal cord injury (SCI) some 20 years ago in a car accident. This injury left him paralyzed from about his waist down. That interview focused on the first few days post-accident – his initial…
On December 12, 2015 my husband and I got a phone call from one of his brothers. It was bad news. Their 87 year old mother was in hospital in grave condition. The thoracic aortic aneurysm, which she had had for many years, had grown to the size of a cantaloupe and was now leaking. The biggest concern…
