If It Weren't For the Honor- I'd Rather Have Walked
Previously Untold Tales of the Journey to the ADA
by Jan Little In the last polio epidemic, before the vaccine, Jan Little became a cripple. No Wisconsin University took cripples, but the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana did, so that's were Little went. There she met other cripples and joined the
Gizz Kids. Little had many sports adventures on many continents, ranging from small fundraisers to the paralympics. With her degree in journalism, she became an editor, where being a woman held her back more than being crippled did. MED(Medical Equiptment Distributors, Inc.) hired her to put their catalogue together, and Little was once again working in the world of the disabled. She was in the midst of innovative technology for the disabled, especially wheelchairs. On behalf of MED, Little was involved in legal action concerning the disabled, including the ADA. After MED collapsed, Invacare (a wheelchair company) hired her, and Little once again worked with crip technology. The book does not go beyond the point where Invacare downsizes and Little loses her job, although the prologue implies that there are more interesting bits to come.
The subtitle is inaccurate- the journey to the ADA is covered in a very small part of the book. A lot of the book is composed of the adventures of being at Champaign-Urbana and the sports that went with it. The chapters are small humorous stories. Little is humorous and informative, but the grammer could use work. There are often enough parenthesis, commas, and dashes to utterly confuse me.
Question: Much of latter half of this book is about competition between companies and how the customers benefitted. Do customers always benefit from competition?
Happy reading.
