Mar 8, 2025 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
(Because Some Moments Take Time to Face) Signing up for the National Storytelling Competition made me revisit a photograph I’ve never shared beforeI blocked off four-hour chunks for book editing. Progress update? Still on round one… with three more to go. Turns out,...
Apr 2, 2024 | Before the Accident, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Misc, Professional, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
I’m excited to share an episode of Hustle + Gather, “Going Beyond Your Limits.” I had the distinct pleasure to be a host on Courtney and Dana’s podcast live where we get raw and real about life. We chat about the good, the bad, and the ugly...
Mar 18, 2024 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
BEST 41ST Birthday Present EVER! On my birthday, March 1, I received the most exciting news! I was selected to be 1 of 10 TEDx speakers at University of North Carolina (UNC) in Pembroke out of hundreds of applicants. Since I started speaking years ago this is been a...
Sep 12, 2023 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Many of you may not know this, but I spent the first 7 years after my accident in and out of hospitals with multiple surgeries including multiple life-threatening pressure sores, spinal cysts, pulmonary embolism’s, hyperthyroidism, osteoporosis, cervical cancer,...
Jul 20, 2023 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Medical, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
A huge thank you to the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA) for writing such a beautiful article on so many challenges many of us wheelchair users continually strive to fight for health equity in our community! Excerpt: “Seat Elevation:...
Apr 4, 2022 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Many of you know I’ve been fighting for an adaptive rowing machine called the Vitaglide for some time now with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. I hit a dead end working directly with BCBS policy directors and I’m now introducing legislation with NC State...
