Mar 30, 2021 | Advocacy, Funnies, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
There’s an art and a science to pretty much everything in life and surviving for weeks on end in the ICU is no different. With a majority of medical professionals being woefully under trained in all of the secondary complications accompanying spinal cord injury, the...
Feb 17, 2021 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
It’s hard to believe that it’s only the middle of February and with the state of affairs in the world today I try very hard to focus my energy on affecting change in whatever capacity I am able to in order to bring a little bit of light into this world. I’ve...
Feb 9, 2021 | Family, Lessons Learned, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
I am so honored to be featured once again in New Mobility Magazine to talk about my marriage, the challenges we face, and how we work through them. Marriage is challenging enough, but when you add in the layered complexity of disability into a relationship I find that...
Feb 2, 2021 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Misc, Uncategorized
The other day I posted an Instagram story that choosing to be happy is a conscious choice. I received a message from a person who asked me a simple, yet thought-provoking, question on how I choose to be happy? This got the wheels turning as it is a really great...
Jan 21, 2021 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
I’m super honored to be featured in another article by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation this year. There are concrete steps you can take to navigate the appeal system and I am partnering with SPINALpedia to create a website this year for a...
Dec 17, 2020 | Advocacy, Family, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Mental Health. Society has come to appreciate the importance of mental health just as much as physical health in recent decades, but somehow there still a negative shadow cast over those who open up about mental challenges they may be facing. If you break...
