Dec 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
The topic of caregiving is a very tricky one to navigate. This is an extremely sensitive topic for me and can be challenging for me to even write about. I preface this blog by stating it is written from my personal and dozens of other spinal cord injury folk’s...
Dec 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Recently Aaron, my boyfriend, wrote an awesome article on Push Living Magazine talking about what it is like to date a woman in a wheelchair. It’s a pretty cool article, which you can read on: http://pushliving.com/dating-disabled-woman/ … The real question at...
Dec 2, 2017 | Lessons Learned, Misc, Sex + Dating, Uncategorized
Six months after breaking my neck in 2010 a gentleman sent me a Facebook message telling me that he thought I was very cute and he wanted to suck my toes. He informed me he was a Devotee. Of course I had no idea what this meant at the time, so I asked around to some...
Nov 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Check out my new Quirky Quad Column on Push Living Magazine: http://pushliving.com/danger-how-negativity-about-disability-can-create-chronic-inflammation/ …. One of my favorite songs is by Bobby McFerrin called “Don’t worry, Be Happy.” This song makes me giggle...
Nov 6, 2017 | Lessons Learned, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago I had a psychological epiphany with respect to my life over the last 7 years since my accident, and probably way before that too. I was reading an article by one of my favorite authors who focuses on writing about behavioral psychology, James Clear...
Oct 31, 2017 | Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Check out my new column on Push Living Magazine: http://pushliving.com/how-i-vacation-as-a-c6-quadriplegic/ … Taking a vacation as an able-bodied person takes planning, but as a quadriplegic, well, it is way more complicated! … I wasn’t quite sure...
