May 19, 2020 | Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
As I was strapped into my electrical stimulation bike while simultaneously lifting weights I had my Bluetooth snuggly positioned into my ear listening to my “Rock it Out” music to keep my motivation over that next hour. Pandora played a song by the black-eyed peas,...
Mar 28, 2020 | Before the Accident, Family, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Today is the first quiet moment I have had in over six weeks and I realized I had not engaged in one of my favorite activities – Writing! Life has been a fast-paced world wind of excitement, chaos, joy, and hustle recently. This doesn’t even include the...
Feb 24, 2020 | Before the Accident, Family, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
[wpvideo AdXqmzir] Thinking back to my childhood I recall playing the “what do you want to be when you grow up” game with other kids. My answer was always a resounding “mermaid.” The water has always been such a central part of my life having grown up in the...
Jan 27, 2020 | Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury
The battle I was fighting today was one of in-network providers. I need to give you little context as to how healthcare has changed over the last several years. While I understand Obama Care has many faults, several years ago the system was much more amenable to those...
Dec 17, 2019 | Funnies, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
It all started with two little pills – one from above and one from below … There are not often medical stories in my life that end up in giggles, smiles, and rainbows, but I am proud to say this one did! In my adolescent years of spinal cord injury I developed...
Dec 10, 2019 | Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
The other day I was reading an article on how traveling on airlines are far from “accessibly” friendly to those in wheelchairs. In this article the story started out by featuring a wheelchair user in his mid-twenties named, and you may know him, Shane...
