Growing Pains




Diminished Visitability

Monday, April 7th, 2008

When visiting a friend resembles an episode of Man vs. Wild.
By Beth Livingston
Last summer I made plans to visit my friends Lisa and Mike in Salt Lake City. I was going to be in town on business and delighted in the thought that I would get to see them, too, as a side […]

GROWING PAINS: “Different” Folks

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

By Beth Livingston

“You people are amazing!”
How often do you hear that and wonder whether you belong to some unnamed tribe?
When I returned to Bozeman after rehab, I was officially “different.” I was in a wheelchair. I stood out. I suppose some communities have larger populations of people with disabilities than in Bozeman, Montana, […]

GROWING PAINS: Motherhood

Monday, May 1st, 2006

By Beth Livingston

Lila and Parker, the author’s children.
Months after the car accident that left me paralyzed, my husband gently revisited the subject of having children. I had always assumed we’d have one—or many. “Things are different now,” he said. “I would understand if you didn’t want to have kids.”
Things were different, I […]

Growing Pains: Coming Back Home

Friday, April 21st, 2006

By Beth Livingston
Just months before I was injured in a car accident (see Growing Pains, “Chronicles of a Young Woman Coping with Paralysis,” in the January Action), I had relocated to Bozeman, Montana, from the East Coast. I was still settling in, so to speak, when I caught a Med-Jet to the trauma center […]

GROWING PAINS: Valleys and Mountains

Friday, February 24th, 2006

By Beth Livingston

After my car accident, I was stabilized at our local hospital, before making the flight to North West University Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. There I was to undergo spinal reduction surgery, and the thought was that I would do my rehabilitation at the nearby Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. I had family in […]

Growing Pains: Chronicles Of A Young Woman Coping With Paralysis

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

By Beth Livingston
In 1989, I had arrived. I had recently completed my undergraduate studies at Parsons School of Design in New York City and had moved across the country to start a new adventure. My husband George and I were married 3 years earlier. We were committed to living in the Rocky Mountains, and […]

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