Mel - that is great

Hi Mel and Theresa,

I have not disclosed this but I am leagally disabled. I am no longer able to work in the "Real" world. That is why I am trying to subsidise my income by having a website for stained glass. Theresa I have the short term memory problem too. I have been dealing with it for 3 years, it does get better if you remain positive and think of yourself as a valuable human and want to contribute to your better ment instead of giving up at the first road block. There is always another way to get around it. Hang in there, and take one day at a time-just make the most of it that you can. Good luck-Carla

> Awww. *hug* That's what board buddies are for!

> BTW, this URL came through an artists group -- it's to help patients with
> low income who have expensive meds. Don't know if you qualify, but you can
> give it a look-see (and if not you, perhaps you can pass it along):
> https://www.pparx.org/Intro.php

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> Two weeks ago, I got notification that I was accepted into the PhD program
> for Information Sciences at the University of North Texas. My proposed
> dissertation is on how disabled people find out about technology and how
> they use it in their lives. You see, some folks seem to hunt up and adopt
> high tech stuff and others don't, and if we knew who was a good candidate
> for this (and how they find out about it), we can help folks.

> Because there's a pilot program to get Segway scooters into the hands of a
> few of the soldiers coming back from Iraq who have been maimed and who
> can't walk well now. And it's my thought that if we can figure out how to
> match people with tech that works for THEM (and how they find out about
> this tech), then... well, it wouldn't cure the world but some people could
> have a better life.

> Right now, I don't know nuffin'. Totally clueless (and I'm scrambling for
> funds to pay for this degree.) But this summer and continuing on until I
> get that degree, I'll start posting research proposals and any of my
> academic conference papers on the topic (I will have to produce several
> academic papers over the next 4 years) on www.melwhite.com (don't go look
> at it now because there's nothing there.) I'll also post links to papers
> that relate to the topic of what I'm studying and probably links to the
> devices as well.

> I'll also post calls for "help, I need people to talk to so I can
> understand your side of things" there, too.

> I don't know if any of it will be of any use to you, but I mention it just
> in case. (I'm such a bleeding-heart tree-hugging liberal hippie... I
> really am!)