Janie Kryski bids farewell to Davis and KDRT lpfm Radio

ACCESS RADIO program on KDRT Radio 101.5fm bids Janie Kryski farewell and good luck with her new job. Kryski has been very active in the Davis area - a member of The Mad Cows Racing Team with her tandem trike, the Davis Toastmaster’s and many other community events. Janie has traveled the world, her stories are so compelling. She is fiesty and funny. Her theme is - "It is a wonderful life".

Unfortunately she will have to move because her new position is in Merced - Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor at the Department of Rehabilitation for the State of California.


Janie Kryski was often a guest on ACCESS RADIO and also hosted the Rolling with Janie radio program on KDRT Radio during the past year. She was 20-years old when she an arterial venous malformation hemorrhaged. After finishing up a semester abroad in Paris, Janie was on a skiing holiday in Mont Blanc (Chamonix), France when the hemorrhage occurred. The six months before her hemorrhage, she was in Paris having the time of my life and she kept a journal. The summer after Janie’s hemorrhage was her graduation summer, so she had many trips. She attempted to contrast the two lives: one walking and one in a wheelchair. Hence, the title of her book, which is Malchance: From Walking to a Wheelchair. Malchance means bad luck in French. Her book was published by Washington House in April 2004.

In December 1998 a surgeon removed the malformation, about half the size of pinky nail, from the left side of her brain to prevent another stroke. Just a month later, days after having metal staples removed from her shaved head, Kryski returned to campus in a motorized wheelchair. Since graduating from UC Davis, Kryski hasn't stopped advancing herself. She earned a master's degree in vocational rehabilitation from California State University, Sacramento.

Kryski's time in France is not something she looks back on bitterly. She still lives with bright memories of the time she spent in France and her triumphs over the challenges she faced when she returned home.


Since graduating from UC Davis, Kryski hasn't stopped advancing herself. She earned a master's degree in vocational rehabilitation from California State University, Sacramento.

Kryski will really be missed in Davis and especially at KDRT Radio. She reminds us to put things in perspective.
I am a cancer survior, I learned from Janie too - that it is a wonderful life. And that life is more about how we take it
and not about how others may see us. The hardest part about being disabled is how other people think you do not have much to offer. I am glad I had the chance to help Janie start her Rolling With Janie radio program. At KDRT Radio and in Davis our lives were made a little brighter because Janie shared time with us.

Janie ....keep on rolling with your sweet success.
May we be a little closer each day to having folks see us for our abilities.

Anne B Evans
Host
ACCESS RADIO
KDRT 101.5lpfm
THE VOICE OF SACRAMENTO

other info

Disability Books Spotlight
Malchance: From Walking to a Wheelchair

(Paperback)
Author: Jane Kryski
Released: April 2004
Publisher: Washington House