I recently had a meeting that did not go well.  It was with a high muckymuck
who hands out blessings and punishments for designers who attempt to improve
or avoid access in keeping with, or by ignoring ADA.  This particular
tormentor was in a wheel chair and my punishement was based upon my inability
to directly overcome the challenge that Mother Nature had handed to me and
her.  And somewhere in the middle of this I found myself wondering about the
arrogance of her disability to take precedence over all others simply because
they were not represented, or worse, were in the room, but dared not expose
themselves.

Not sure what this had to do with diebetes, but it seemed releveant when I
started.

-jc

Lawrence Kestenbaum wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Ken Follett wrote:
>
> > I love it. I often express that diabetes, which I have, is a slow death.
>
> Where I work, diabetes is constantly mentioned as the exemplar disease,
> probably because (1) lots of the respondents in our study of retirement
> and aging have mature diabetes, and (2) our Principal Investigator (the
> guy my wife refers to as "the Boss of all Bosses") is interested in
> diabetes.
>
> So, when someone gives a for-instance about extracting some slim vector of
> data from our stupendous hoard, it is almost invariably about some aspect
> of diabetic life or death.  (They could just as easily ask about widowed
> sisters living together, or income from private pension plans among
> African-Americans, or a jillion other things we have asked our respondents
> about and compiled into vast databanks.)
>
> Inevitably, I picked up this diabetes-example habit from my co-workers,
> but sometimes I worry that the diabetics in earshot or mailshot might
> resent having their specific affliction invoked so casually.  I'm too
> embarrassed to go back to the BP archives and count how many times I have
> mentioned the disease in previous postings.  Thank you (and everyone else)
> for not hitting me over the head with it.
>
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