A Brilliant Career

On July 9Th 1980 I Broke My Neck In A Waterskiing Accident Which Resulted In Quadriplegia. A Brilliant Career Proceeds In Three Parts. In Part I I Discuss My Eight-Month Hospitalization With Flashbacks To An Able-Bodied Trip To The East Coast Taken Ten Days Before My Accident And Ending With My Narration Of The Accident. Part Ii Contains Vignettes Of Life In A Wheelchair Difficult Facts Often Retold With Humor. Part Iii Contains One-Sentence To Five-Page Reflections On What The Disability Might Mean This Radical Slowing Down From The Perspective Of Having Lived For Twenty-Six Years Between Wheels.