As a casualty of the downturn in the economy, my wife and I find ourselves moving out of our home into a “pre-fabbed” home. That’s just a nice way to say trailer home. We’ve picked the place out and it’s in a very nice “neighborhood.” We’ll be moving in next week. But here’s the catch. It doesn’t have a wheelchair ramp for my power scooter.

With my knee so bad and my legs so weak, I can’t get up and down those stairs every day. So I need some help building a wheelchair ramp. Does anyone know where I might find plans to add a wheelchair ramp to a “pre-fabbed” home with a porch? Any help would be very greatly appreciated.

I had a check up with my physician last week. I like her a lot. She’s a good doctor and has always seemed to take my best interests to heart. As a routine part of the check up, we got discussing my eating habits. Now I’m no nutrition fanatic, but I’ve always tried to eat pretty healthy. I like vegetables and consider my diet pretty balanced.

But then the topic of diet soda came up. I always thought I was making a better choice by going with the diet soda. But my doctor advised me to give it up‹not to pick up sugar soda in its place, but to drink more water. She said for me particularly, she’s worried about kidney stones and said there’s pretty strong evidence that ties diet sodas with caffeine to kidney stones.