Day 8 (pg.168-191)

• the first time that he heard of anthropology was in 1947
• started to work on a project of diability at around 1979
• the project ended in 1983
• some of his muscle spasms got so bad that he would slip half way down his chair, because of this he had to wear a seat belt
• he could not feel temperature, and his pores did not open and close to exude persperation
• from 1980-1981 his state of health began to decline
• he found that from sitting in his chair all day he started getting ulcers
• one got so big that he had to have surgery on it to get it removed
• in 1984 he came down with a bad case of the flu, which did not help his healing and he got weaker
• in 1981 he got another ulcer, but it was not as big as the first one. He got that one removed as well by surgery
• later that summer he got another ulcer that formed on top of the surgical scar
• he went in for more surgery to remove it in the end of October, and he had to stay at he hospital for 2 months
• every 2 hours in the night someone would come and turn him over so that he would not get any more ulcer, or blood pooling
• as the pressure on the spinla cord in the lower cervical area increased, his fingers and hands had become weaker and stiffer
• in 1981 he could still pick up light objects with his left hand
• in about 1982 or 1983 he could do only that with his right hand and not pick up heavier things
• bought a computer because he could not type on a typewriter
• his left arm had become too weak to move his wheelshair, so he ordered a electric one
• his chest muscles had deteriorated, and hiss lung capacity had dropped to 50%