Jan 25, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
The Early Years of Sexuality Up there on the list with chatting about money and politics, sex is such a taboo topic. I grew up in Europe with a very open-minded family and a very open culture with respect to talking about sexuality and running around half naked...
Jan 15, 2024 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Medical, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
HOW TO START BUILDING A NEW (POSITIVE) HABIT Your life today is essentially the some of your habits. How happy or unhappy are you? – a result of your habits. In psychology, the process of building a habit can be divided into four simple steps: cue, craving,...
Jan 9, 2024 | Advocacy, Funnies, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Online dating. Those two words. I would wager a bet they are evoking quite a few emotions for many of you – either positive or negative. As a newly divorced quadriplegic I’m back in the dating game. I never thought I would be here...
Dec 13, 2023 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional
WHAT’S WORSE THAN BEING PARALYZED? Sleep Deprivation – Millions Sharing a collective pain together I’ve commented before that paralysis itself is not innately the biggest challenge with living a life in a wheelchair. It’s the secondary...
Nov 29, 2023 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Things have been challenging in my care life at the moment. I am going to leave it at that and just say that everyone is doing the best they can despite unforeseen circumstances. With that said, I have some of my beautiful caregivers coming in the morning to help....