Jun 9, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
Because if you’re going to live life on the edge, make sure it’s properly harnessed. Skydiving has been on my bucket list since forever—but I didn’t get the chance before I broke my neck in a shallow water dive and became a C6 quad, paralyzed from the chest down with...
May 28, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury
Let’s face it: your brain is dramatic. Not theater-kid-in-high-school dramatic. More like toddler-who-dropped-their-Fruit-Roll-Up-in-a-sandbox dramatic. Every day, your decisions are being pulled in a three-way battle between: 🧠 The impulsive part that wants dopamine...
May 20, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
There are a few things I wish someone had handed me early in life: 📝 A how-to guide on being paralyzed with style📉 A manual on avoiding airport catastrophe🎁 And maybe a coupon for lifetime bubble wrap I didn’t know what I didn’t know—until I learned the hard way. And...
May 9, 2025 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Professional
(Could this be you? Or someone you love?) I wish I could say this is one of my usual dark humor posts. It’s not. It is, however, one of the most necessary things I’ve written in a while—for all of us, as human beings navigating a system that often forgets the human...
Mar 8, 2025 | Advocacy, Before the Accident, Lessons Learned, Professional, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized
(Because Some Moments Take Time to Face) Signing up for the National Storytelling Competition made me revisit a photograph I’ve never shared beforeI blocked off four-hour chunks for book editing. Progress update? Still on round one… with three more to go. Turns out,...
