Sometimes when I was watching astronauts walking on the moon, I imagined in my mind what would weightless movement feel like in my body. I got some sense of it last week when I tested unweighted walking on the AlterG treadmill. AlterG treadmill is originally designed for NASA astronauts to …
Five years after I became handicapped I noticed that the past years had taught me more about life than 19 years before I became disabled. No-one had prepared me for my new challenges. I had to count on my own resources. This resource is the good old common sense. Emotional …
Just before the fatal New Years Eve I had finished the curriculum of my school. I had only the final exam before me that was needed to seal the school education. I had accomplished the first tests as I was in rehabilitation centre. In spring 1980 I completed the second …
One year after the stroke, in the New Year’s Eve 1979, I was feeling like a newborn child. My former life time had passed by and nothing new was built to replace it. I felt that I had an endless amount of blank paper before me, on which I could …
On July 3rd, 1979, exactly 33 years ago my life was at a turning point like today, on July 3rd, 2012, when I open this blog. 33 years ago in the New Year’s Eve I had a stroke in brain and after a week in coma I found myself …