Robots for Humanity: How technology is changing the life of one Bay Area man
From: KALW Radio - San Francisco - 12/08/2014
By: Angela Johnston

Henry Evans and his wife Jane live high up in the Los Altos foothills. To get
there you have to drive up twisting roads with steep switchback turns. On a
Thursday morning 12 years ago Henry drove up these same roads after dropping
his children off at school.

"Life was more what you want to call normal," says Jane Evans. "We had a very
busy life raising four kids, my husband was a CFO for a startup company. We
were very involved in our children’s activities whether it was boy scouts or
hikes, bicycle rides, coaching them in sports."

Then, Henry suffered from what is called a brain stem dissection.

"It's a very rare type of stroke, but it left him completely paralyzed and
mute. As Henry described to me, he woke up and felt like he was cemented in
his body, literally cemented," Jane remembers.

That stroke left him trapped, unable to lift a finger at first, or say a
word. But now, with help from technology, Henry feels free.

Read the entire article and listen to the radio interview (10:08) at:
http://kalw.org/post/robots-humanity-how-technology-changing-life-one-bay-area-man