2022 – Year in Review – “A Wild Ride”

Dec 31, 2022 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized

My father raised me with so many incredible quotes.  Over the course of 2022 and throughout all of my wonderful successes and failures – this one in particular continues to drive me on a daily basis: “Luck is the Residue of Design” – English Poet John...

“Quad Cast” Podcast

Dec 30, 2022 | Advocacy

Help me to support a great new friend named John McAleavy … Incredible human, passionate, driven, and fellow quadriplegic. John has a very cool podcast called “Quad Cast” where he interviews people with disabilities with diverse wide-ranging stories....

Accessible Pool Lift for My Community – Pushing Beyond Minimum Accessibility Standards

Sep 9, 2022 | Advocacy, Featured Posts, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury

DONATION LINK: https://helphopelive.org/campaign/20851/ Dearest Friends, Family, and Supporters! For many of you that know me, as a C6 quadriplegic paralyzed from the chest down in a shallow water diving accident in 2010, swimming is the one activity in my life that...

A Completely Different Perspective – Walter Magazine Article

Sep 5, 2022 | Advocacy, Lessons Learned, Medical, Misc, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized

A dear friend of mine writes for many magazines and wrote a beautiful piece over the last several months on my life, but what I think was very different as compared to many profile pieces was a night out on the town with me. I fitted Billy up for a power wheelchair...

SPENDING A YEAR IN BED

Jul 8, 2022 | Advocacy, Family, Lessons Learned, Misc, Sex + Dating, Spinal Cord Injury, Uncategorized

“SPENDING A YEAR IN BED: New YouTube Video Out — Quirky Quad “Shower Talk with Ali” — UNCENSORED! I bet you don’t know a lot of people that have spent a year in bed. Why would you? This is definitely not normal. I’ve written about it...