"Bobbi Linn is a fi ghter and has been for the more than 40 years I have had the privilege to know her - fi ghting against discrimination based on disability and fi ghting the depression that tries to overpower her, taking her away from her work as a leader in the Independent Living Disability Rights Movement. Her dynamic spirit and keen intellect empower her again as she experiences a life-threatening blow to her independence. In Ode to a Diet Coke, she shares with us in descriptive prose the jolting experiences which land her in the hospital, a rehabilitation unit and then threaten to keep her in a nursing home." Judith Heumann Co-Founder, Berkeley Center for Independence Co-Founder, World Institute on Disability