2009 Post Script

This 2009 revision especially honors all the wonderful souls who have touched my life ...always

full of surprises.

On September 19, 2008, at Barrows Neurological, St. Joe's Hospital, Phoenix, I had brain surgery, or microvascular decompression. Two neurosurgeons, Drs. Andrew Shetter and Joseph Zabramski performed this high risk procedure. These guys were brilliant and the surgery 100% successful. But a couple of days post op I developed multiple complications, including pneumonia.

On my third trip back into intensive care I felt... spent. I told the attending nurse that I didn't want

to be re-intubated. The nurse called my wife and told her what I wanted.... After four weeks of

hospitalization and five more weeks of intense therapy and recovery at home, I returned to my

job with the State of Arizona....

Barack Obama had just been elected President of the United States.... An ever worsening

economic crisis was gripping this country.... The historically predictable causes for this crisis

had been forewarned by renowned scholars.... For now, consider the "health" of a US economy

that's been moving away from... producing real products... to one which exchanges paper

— buying and selling... corporate and consumer debt... making financial bets, i.e., hedging.

Contemporaneously... erode this economy's

middle class while concentrating... its wealth into

fewer hands. That's what's been happening in

the US over the last 40+ years. It's an historical

flashing red light for the end of an empire. Guess

which empire.

On May 18, 2009, I was advised that

due to budgetary constraints, the Arizona

Office for Americans with Disabilities was to

be permanently closed.... My job as Executive

Director... would terminate.... Like many of you

who read this, I'm looking for another job. That's

life. The rest is inside.

Jacuzzi's creative memoir of growing up disabled in a family of Italian inventors is filled with

history, romance, and globe-trekking adventure.

Business coach, manager, and ADA advocate,

Ken has lived an incredible life!