Apr 27, 2022 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Pain. Chronic pain. It’s no joke. It’s debilitating. It can lead to death. It can be physically and psychologically crushing to your soul. Living with physical paralysis, for me, pales in comparison to pain. If...
Apr 20, 2022 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
It was pretty awesome to be a guest last week Hosted by BACKBONES and sponsored by the REEVE FOUNDATION with a good friend Chelsea McDonald. We really dove into some super personal disability topics that are just not normalized in mainstream society! It was an honest,...
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...
Oct 23, 2020 | Family, Lessons Learned, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Recently my husband and I took a week long vacation to visit a friend in Florida. I distinctly remember one day when he was helping me with all of my bathroom duties, getting my swimsuit on, lifting me up from a very low surface bed (killing his back), lifting...
