Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living with a Disability.

Abstract

Foreword Acknowledgments Part I. Before Prologue: Overcoming Is Only the Start 1. In the Beginning There Was an Idea 2. Several Hours in a Utopia Part II. During 3. So Much in So Short a Time--Thursday, May 25 4. The Little Things that Fill a Day--Friday, May 26 5. The Greatest Night of the Year--Saturday, May 27 6. Confrontations and Conversations with Myself--Sunday, May 28 7. On the Problem of Sharing Power and Love--Monday, May 29 8. It All Depends on Whether You Stand or Sit--Tuesday, May 30 9. Gone but Not Forgotten--Wednesday, May 31 Part III. After 10. If Listening is Hard, Telling Is Worse: Thoughts on the improbable and Problematic World of the Physically Handicapped and Chronically Ill 11. Four Steps on the Road to Invalidity: The Denial of Sexuality, Anger, Vulnerability, and Potentiality Epilogue: Some Concluding but Hardly Final Thoughts on Integration, Personal and Social