Jan 5, 2018 | Family, Lessons Learned, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
A little over 10 years ago BBC produced a television mini-series called “Planet Earth.” They spent five years filming unique exotic environments, plants, and animals all over the world. There was one episode where the film crew spent months in subzero Himalayan...
Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’ve often been asked what a typical day looks like for me as a quadriplegic (quad). While every quad is different I can confidently generalize that with being paralyzed and fully dependent one has to spend a minimum of several hours a day dealing with general spinal...
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...
