As a wheelchair-user, you gotta love kids for their innocence and open-mindedness, but let’s face, sometimes it can be awkward explaining EVERYTHING to them lol.
Here are three people with spinal cord injuries seamlessly speaking to kids (including a clip of Christopher Reeve on Sesame Street!). Read this entry
Dear Tiffiny,
I’m a 20 year old guy with Friedrich’s Ataxia, a very rare genetic disorder, similar to Muscular Dystrophy. I’ve been in a wheelchair since age 14, and have never dated. Not that I haven’t tried.
I’ve asked girls out and have tried loads of dating sites, but with no luck. Girls I ask out say no, and girls on dating sites rarely respond. Friends (who do happen to be girls, but aren’t my “girlfriends”) have said I’m handsome, so I don’t think I’m rejected because I’m ugly.
I’ve felt depressed at times, because I’m never able to attract the right type of girl. Any advice?
She’s the one and only woman with a spinal cord injury to pose in Playboy (the June 1987 issue to be exact), and yes, it desperately needs to be repeated.
See what Ellen Stohl is up to these days, including working as a professor at Cal State Northridge. Read this entry
You gotta watch these three awesome winter videos covering very important wheelchair skills.
The first (and my fav), power wheelchair racing on ice (possibly the most entertaining adapted sport ever, replete with NASCAR play-by-plays). Also, find out the perfect number of layer to stay warm (you’ll have to watch to find out the magic number).
Also find out the best snow tires for manual wheelchair (wrapping plastic rope around your wheels can work too). Read this entry
The hunkiest guy in a wheelchair to make it big in Hollywood – Mitch Longley.
He’s been a hearthrob fans adored in General Hospital and Another World, he was on NBC’s Las Vegas until 2010 and he’s in the new documentary CinemAbility. This guy really needs a website. Read this entry
I’ve always loved FDR. He made it cool to be in a wheelchair (even though he didn’t want the world to know he was in one). Ok, maybe “cool” isn’t the operative term. “Badass”….yeah, that’s more like it.
FDR essentially turned the word “invalid” upside down. You can imagine how excited I was then when I saw the preview for Hyde Park on the Hudson last night.
It’s a new movie profiling a snippet of FDR’s life in the summer of 1939, starring Bill Murray as FDR and Laura linney as Daisy Stuckley. Read this entry
While wheelchair dancing has been a sport for over 20 years, wheelchair hip-hop dancing has never really gotten it’s spotlight – until now.
Chelsie Hill, one of the youngest stars from the reality show Push Girls, has founded her very own integrated (able-bodied and disabled) dance team, which she’s dubbed Team Hotwheelz. Read this entry
You never think about getting old after you sustain a spinal cord injury, but before you know it, you’re 18 years post (not cool!).
Staying healthy is huge in our world. Watch a great video interviewing 5 people 18 years post; what’s changed and tips galore.
Plus – two more videos, one of shoulder pain prevention, the other on pressure sore prevention (did you know you have to eat 3x the amount of protein when you have one?). Read this entry
In podcast #93, Tiffiny is joined by Sara Tabor, a 30 something woman paralyzed 4 years ago in a bizarre accident, who’s went on to discover a new sport post-injury (where females are still the minority, but are recently gaining numbers) – sled hockey.
Hyrded Makabali, a paraplegic from Cali (who grew up in the UK), has gone on to become the only female semi-pro pool player with a spinal cord injury. And she’s a makeup artist (with a talent in special effects makeup).
Learn all about this stunner on wheels! Read this entry
