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• recieved a Mark Van Doren award for teavhing from the students of Columbia College his alma matter
• not being able to drive was hard for him, because it took away some of his freedom
• if they had to stay in a hotel they would have to measure the door way to make sure that the wheelchair could get in, they would have to bring things to help him, and if they wanted to go to a resturante they had to phone and ask if there was wheelchair access
• in 1962 he signed a conteact with the Prentice-Hall publishing house to do a textbook on introductory anthropology
• he did not do the textbook so in the spring of 1977 while looking for a writing project he had the idea of writing a text on cultural antropology, which he knew off the top of his head so he did not have to try and reaserch in the library which was hard because of his condition
• starting in early May he finished a 100,000 wor manuscript at the end of August
• his book "My Dialectics of Social Life" took him 8 month in 1968 and 1969
• he also wrote "An Overture to Social Anthropology" in 1979
• He sent the completed manuscript to the publishing company and the first copies were published in 1978
• his book was successful enough to warrant a second edition in 1986
• he returned to teaching in September 1977, and because it was a class of about 200 he had to project his voice, and that was hard for him, but it helped strenghten his muscles
• he knew what was wrong with him, and the fact that it was only going to get worse, and he was able to accept that. He was not able to accept the social limits, or tolerate the clips from his past
• it made him feel alone and isolated, despite the strong support from his family and friends
• the interesting part about his condition was that if you ran a knife through his leg, he could not feel it
• ever since the tumour became symptomatic the upper body functions suffered some impairment. It diminished his lung capacity, and consequently, more rapid and shallow and rapid breathing.
• the musculature of his arms and hands and progressively weakened, the range of movement had become more narrow, his fingers stiffened, and his hands became numb and insensitive to touch and temperature.
• he had to be careful of hot water, dishes and pots because he could burn himself without knowing
• by the spring of 1986 his left hand was almost useless because the fingers of quadriplegics curl inward towards the palms