Apr 24, 2024 | Advocacy, Medical, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
(Partnering with the North Carolina Medical Society & Legislators) It was such an honor to be invited back to speak with the top doctors, legislators, advocates, and folks advancing healthcare equity in the state of North Carolina. The North Carolina Medical...
Jan 30, 2024 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Bowel and bladder and sex oh my. All topics that are woefully under discussed and talked about. I wrote an article about sex last week and will be filming a video for safe sex positions (PG style of course) in the coming week. However, it dawned on...
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,...
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....