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MDA’s award-winning bimonthly national magazine goes to everyone registered with MDA, as well as to MDA clinics, researchers and subscribers.
Quest publishes articles on all aspects of living with a neuromuscular disease, and updates on research findings. Quest’s circulation is 125,000.
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Check Out the New Digital Version of Quest! |
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Get Up, Get Out, Get Going
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Check out our selection of holiday gifts to enable and enhance your active lifestyle.
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Stories by Topic
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ARE YOU SCARED YET?
GHOSTS, BUGATTIS AND GROUCHO GLASSES
At Christmas 1995, Marcus Mann of Houston bore gifts in a style befitting a biblical wise man. Omar the camel is made of cardboard boxes covered with fabric attached to handles on the back of Marcus' chair and the front tray. A cutout allowed Marcus, then 9, to reach his controls. Total cost of materials was about $25.
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 Bryce Riley of Perry Hall, Md., has been an alien, Lord Zed and Batman on various Halloweens. His 1991 Killer Tomato killed.
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 Andrew Driggs' mom converted his wagon into a pirate ship to help Andrew troll for Halloween booty when he was 5. The sails are made of newsprint, glued to wooden dowels and anchored to a brick. Two years later, Andrew was a real "specter"-cle in his Sandy, Utah, neighborhood. Six yards of muslin fabric were held in place by safety pins and wire coat hangers attached to his wheelchair armrests.
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At MDA's 1996 Halloween party in Tucson, Ariz., Cory Carrier ruled the night as Dracula, and Mary Claire Ellis was everybody's baby.
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OK, it has nothing to do with a wheelchair, but once we spotted this we  couldn't keep it to ourselves. Lynn G. Christian of Ames, Iowa, and his best friend, Agate, shopped for matching outfits at the Goodwill store a few years ago. Christian, who has oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, reports that Agate has now gone "to the big dog bone in the sky."
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