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....
Nov 21, 2023 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Yesterday I had an hour to kill and I decided to do a fun filled beauty Photo-shoot for myself. I think my mother was an excellent photographer. The behind the scenes of setting my body up, well that was rather comical and gave me a great giggle for the day, but it...
