INTERVIEW

See recent interview of me by Marilyn Moore of the Atlas Society: https://atlassociety.org/commentary/commentary-blog/6318-member-spotlight-diana-amsden. It reveals facets of me that may be new even to my relatives.

In May, 2014, in the Santee YMCA parking lot (spaces for ~314 cars), I tripped over a tire stop in the walking lane between two parking spaces, indistinguishable in color from the adjacent pavement.  I did a face plant, sustaining nasal and left suborbital fractures.  My vision corrected after a few weeks, but my voice remains hoarse.  The engineering company skimped in just that one row, making five tire stops serve ten cars by placing them in the walking lanes between cars.  They offered me a pittance––on the condition that I not tell their name––(you can easily find it using the information above).  They did eventually meet my demand that they correct that row of tire stops so that no one else has a devastating fall.

My August 2016 pedestrian versus SUV accident (I was not the SUV) caused four fractures, four surgeries, months in a SNF.  They thought I might not walk again and my daughter Mary and son-in-law Clete Williams installed a wheelchair lift at my home.  I can walk (using a walker away from home).   In 2017, I took the brilliant Robert McKee’s “Story” seminar in LA.  I highly recommend it (so does John Cleese).

Today I discovered that twelve of my descendants are in the medical field.  So is my great-niece.