The APF Video Project

Cindy

My first few patient interviews went really well. I’ll share a bit now about Cindy, then more about Ken next week. In short, they are both amazingly interesting and warm people. Cindy lives in downtown Manhattan. We greeted her outside her apartment and she spotted us before we recognized her. After all, we’ve never met…and we gave ourselves away on the sidewalk with some light equipment!

What an interesting day it was, all around. It was my first day of interviewing people, live, on camera. I wasn’t nervous, as Cindy is a very warm person at ease with herself and others. It’s hard to explain - but it’s a very hard-to-describe quality that I’ve noticed in patients that have experienced extraordinary physical challenges. We’ll talk about this quite a bit more on this blog, but much moreso in the video.

Oh, by the way, Cindy actually lives in the Pentagon. Well, not the government version, the Manhattan version. It takes about two or three hours to walk from her elevator to the courtyard, where we filmed the interview. It’s an expansive courtyard that afforded a reasonably quiet place for a nice place to talk. And to listen. And to film. And maybe to film some more…that’s a story for another day.