An amazing Hawaiian artist I just found, died in 2008 at the age of 62 of ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease.
PEGGY CHUN was diagnosed in 2002 at the height of her fame as a watercolorist. deciding this dread disease would not take over her life. A year after her initial diagnosis she could no longer paint with her right hand so started using her left. Another year passes and she can no longer use either hand, so painted with the brush held between her teeth.
Many years ago, when a pre-med student, I worked in the largest rehab center in the USA, and saw first hand how post polio patients did the same thing. One young man even used his feet.
When the disease had taken over and she was now paralyzed, Peggy used a computer program which tracked her eye movements.
She never stopped: you don't paint with your hands, you paint with your heart". Not only did she paint with the Aloha spirit, she lived it!
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