Maintaining Your Health after Spinal Cord Injury
Weight, nutrition and diet, and exercise are important factors to consider in maintaining our health with a spinal cord injury. Doctors can examine the status
My First (but not last) Experience with Kroger’s Home Grocery Delivery Service
Rainy Day + Empty Fridge = The decision to try home delivery with Kroger
Ticket to Work
Read how Melissa has successfully transitioned from receiving SSDI to college and grad school to working full time with the Ticket to Work program. Click
8 Things to Pack for an Extended Hospital Stay
Have you ever wondered what to pack for an extended time in the hospital? After my 3-week hospital stay turned into almost 17 weeks, I
Suffering Well
Suffering. It’s a word with many faces. Poverty. Illness. War. Financial hardship. Death. According to the book of Job, God allows suffering. Job is described
BCIR Update #7
A lot has happened since my last update. I flew home. Then less than two weeks later I flew back to Florida.
Do You Have a Wheelchair?
Have you ever stopped to consider if people in developing countries have access to wheelchairs or other mobility aids? I hadn’t until nine years after
Commemorating 29 Years of SCI
Today is the 29th anniversary of my injury. (Math tells me that, but I don’t believe it. I’m not even 29 years old, right?) On
BCIR Update #6
I’m home. I’m on IV antibiotics and had a scary run-in with sepsis the last week. But I’m home.
Why Scarves are My Favorite Quad-Friendly Accessory
As a quad, it’s difficult to deal with earrings or necklaces so I just keep it simple with scarves. Watch this video to see a
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After a spinal cord injury at 16, I discovered that a wheelchair could take me places I never dared to imagined.
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