Los Martincitos (9): Observations on Public Health and Society E-Mail Home May 31, 2002 "We visited a woman with polio who has participated in Special Olympics marathons in a chair she built herself from old bicycle wheels. Even though I've seen sights that have really upset and saddened me, there are also some signs that have been reassuring. A big group of us walk into a house that barely has a corrugated tin roof, straw mat for walls, and a dirt floor, and people will offer us their couches or, more often, their very beds to sit on."