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Personal Perspectives on Living With a Disability The objective of this work is to examine a work in writing that provides a first-hand perspective on the psychosocial issues involved with living with a disability of a disabling illness. personal perspectives on living with a disability. Questions addressed in this study include those as follows: (1) what type of disability or disabling illness did the person have? (2) provide a description of how this disability/illness affects the individual's perceptions of his/her identity? (3) What forms of prejudice or discrimination did he/she encounter from others? How did he/she cope with it? And (4) What did you learn from this individual's account of his/her experience that would help you as a therapist in working with another individual who has a similar illness or disability?

Type of Disability or Illness

Anthony Galvez relates that in September 2005 he was diagnosed with a "non-malignant brain tumor the size of a golf ball" on his brainstem and cerebellum." (2010) Galvez reports that he had to undergo surgery for removal of the brain tumor and as well took radiation therapy and a long stint of outpatient physical and occupational therapy following the surgery. Galvez reports that he is "a walking contradiction" stating that generally, he does not enjoy the pursuit of reading, but surprisingly, he wrote a book.

Galvez reports that he is "a jock" however, he states that he has always enjoyed writing. It is somewhat ironic that Galvez is a physical therapist who experienced a reversal to being a patient for more than a year. Galvez states that as a physical therapist, it is his job to "help people regain their function in everyday life" but that he had now been...

(2010) Galvez reports being in the Intensive Care Unit for eight days and to have been hospitalized for five weeks with outpatient lasting more than a year.
II. Decryption of the Impacts of the Disability on the Individual's Perceptions of Identity

Galvez states that following brain surgery that he was "left with no coordination, double vision, and an extremely weak voice, and the inability to walk." (2010) As Galvez continues his account of the process leading up to surgery he ponders on how he will be "buck naked in front of a bunch of people" and thinks about the Foley catheter that will have to be inserted hoping he will be knocked out at the time. Galvez also thinks about having his head shaved hoping that his hair will grow back as it should and he ponders his most certain loss of hearing following surgery to remove the brain tumor.

III. Forms of Prejudice or Discrimination Encountered by Individual

Galvez reports that his cognition and will "were 100% normal" upon returning home after surgery although he states that he "was not perceived by other people as normal." (2010) Galvez states that he received some "peculiar responses from people." (2010) Galvez relates that he attended a wedding and was required to sit in the handicapped area "with the little kids." (2010) Galvez additionally relates that it was difficult having to ask "people to move out of the way if you want to pass by and get to 'point b'." (2010) He also discovered that when he went out with friends he was not able to go to all the places he wanted to…

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Galvez, Anthony (2010) Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient. Health and Fitness. Google Books. Retrieved from: http://books.google.com/books?id=3E1hch-CMDcC&dq=Reversal:+When+a+Therapist+Becomes+a+Patient+by+Eric+Anthony+Galvez+(PT+with+brain+tumor)&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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