Document from the year 2009 in the subject Nursing Science, grade: B, The University of Texas at Austin, language: English, abstract: "No matter how much I was admired by others or by myself, there was still much more I had to face. "My Polio" and "My Accident" were not just my past; they were part of my present and my future" (Zola, 1982, p.84). There are 53.9 million Americans with a disability (Jans & Stoddard, 1999); 28.6 million are women and their numbers are increasing (Gerschick, 2000). The increase is partly due to a longer lifespan for persons with disabilities, which is most...