May 28, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury
Let’s face it: your brain is dramatic. Not theater-kid-in-high-school dramatic. More like toddler-who-dropped-their-Fruit-Roll-Up-in-a-sandbox dramatic. Every day, your decisions are being pulled in a three-way battle between: 🧠 The impulsive part that wants dopamine...
May 9, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional
(Could this be you? Or someone you love?) I wish I could say this is one of my usual dark humor posts. It’s not. It is, however, one of the most necessary things I’ve written in a while—for all of us, as human beings navigating a system that often forgets the human...
Dec 17, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
I will never stop learning, reading, and experimenting on myself with nutrition, exercise, pain management techniques, how to better work with my audiences, and so much more. My chronic burning pins & needles pain reaches about a 8.5/10 each day & can be...
Sep 4, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Before my accident it was quite automatic to just wake up, roll out of bed, walk into the bathroom, brush my teeth, use my hands to turn on the sink, wash my face, etc. It wasn’t until months after I returned home from the hospital when my caregivers were...
Aug 11, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Uncategorized
It almost feels as though every time I travel, I’m living Groundhog Day. There are a few major challenges that I’d like to address. The first is that every major airline contracts with a third-party company to handle ground transportation (folks that help...
Jul 21, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Surprisingly, or perhaps not, I am often approached by strangers and asked if I will ever walk again? Or, I’m told I will walk again if I just work harder or pray. If we are just talking science here for a minute … I think it’s important to unpack what actually causes...
