Well, this is about the most depressing news story I’ve read in a long while. We’ve lost another paraplegic to falling + cold weather, people. This is not good.
– Tiff
PS. I did not know him personally. He lived in the country.
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Not dead yet, and still receiving gifts
Having Pneumonia for 10 days this month was by far the scariest health thing I’ve experienced since breaking my neck in 1993. Thanks to massive antibiotics and figuring out how to cough using my knee, I beat it. So check this, upon coming home here’s an awesome Bowie stencil I received as a Welcome Home gift:
I’ve always loved this older photograph of the legendary Mr. Bowie.
February lessons: 1) I CAN beat Pnemonia as a C6 quad despite the odds being against me. 2) Homemade gifts are awesome.
Don’t ever think life with a spinal cord injury gets dull. It never does. And never forget how good it feels to breathe.
– Tiff
Quadriplegic researching erotic energy for healing
Paraplegic “climbs” mountain, but is climb the right word?
Don’t let Pneumonia happen to you; I did
Pneumonia can kill, and it almost killed me. Here’s a word of caution.
“Sympathy for Delicious” stars actual paraplegic, Mark Ruffalo directs
This movie follows a jaded DJ paraplegic who mysteriously wakes up with the gift to heal others, but discovers he still can’t heal himself. “Sympathy for Delicious” also stars Orlando Bloom and Juliette Lewis, and was written by Christopher Thornton, the film’s star.
It has a cool back story too. Thornton and Ruffalo are old acting school buddies from before Thornton’s injury (a rock climbing accident) in 1992. This script was a longtime coming too (an idea Thornton had while wheeling to the liquor store).
The completed film is premiering at Sundance this week. If anyone out there has seen it yet, let us know what you thought (good or bad). Does it deserve to be picked up?
It’s the last season of Lost, and Sawyer’s jumping off a cliff?
I’ll admit I fell in love with Lost late in the game. Thanks to every episode available on ABC.com (and because the show is really that addictive), I watched all four seasons last winter before the start of Season 5 (wheelchair-users need something to do here in Minnesota when the snow flies). And now, it’s crazy, but it’s in my Top 3 shows, (1) Six Feet Under, (2) Battlestar Galactica, and (3) Lost, with Lost knocking Sex & The City out of the Top 3.
In honor of the last season of the show premiering next Tuesday (which is depressing as Hell btw, and I hope the the ending come May isn’t more Opium-induced visions from J.J. Abrams), here is the brand new smoking hot Davidoff Cool Water commercial starring the official heatthrob of Lost (NOT Jack) – Mr. “Sexy Pants” Josh Holloway.
I’m a Sawyer girl. What can I say.
One of my YouTube videos
It took me a solid 10 years to perfect my makeup routine with paralyzed hands. Here’s how I do it.
– Tiff
Solar wheelchair works, but can you overlook the “roof?”
Would anyone actually use a wheelchair with a crazy roof, just to go green?Not me! I understand why he had to do it, but did you have to make the roof THAT big? More ranting…
Paralyzed R&B legend, Teddy Pendergrass, dies. Did you know who he was?
He was a 1970’s soul superstar, a quadriplegic from A Rolls Royce accident, and a man the music industry will never forget. Read my blog on Teddy here.