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4 Must Have Features for Driving a Handicapped Accessible Van
Interested in finally getting an accessible van? Four things to know before you make that purchase.
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Wheelie Favorite Things – April 2013
Here's the April installment of my Wheelie Favorite Things column at Push Living, including the world's only wheelchair accessible limo, the MVS (made from two MV-1 vehicles from VPG).
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My Top 5 Wheely Favorite Things
Welcome to the first installment of our Wheely Favorite Things. Each month we'll be profiling the best five things - products, places, pop culture and whatever else we can think of - for wheelchair-users.
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Animals and wheelchairs: Cute-ifying disability
Call it a trend, or maybe a new revelation, but the masses have discovered (thanks to viral videos) that they absolutely love animals in wheelchairs. It started with cats and dogs in wheelchairs, and now even goldfish and baby pigs, like Chris P. Bacon from Florida, are getting in on the action.
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“Cruise ship from Hell” inaccessible too
When the Carnival Triumph stopped working in the middle of the ocean last week, it was a nightmare for Carnival Cruise Lines, but for people with disabilities who've been on this awful boat before? A sense of sweet vindication.
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Wife of quadriplegic publishes beautiful ebook on caregiving
Wife of a quadriplegic, Dana Brown Ritter (she writes a really awesome disability relationship blog, LoveLikeThisLife.com), has published her first ebook based on the most popular blog post she's ever written, "We Are," a poem written for all the wives of quads (really powerful stuff).
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Taking on the shower
I look forward to my shower almost as much as my first cup of coffee, but when I was first paralyzed this was so not the case.
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SCI Superstar: Frank Gardner
As part of my blogging for SPINALpedia.com, I get to write about a lot of awesome people with SCI. And Frank Gardner, a paralyzed BBC security correspondent, is one of the coolest. Learn all about this badass Brit who was shot in Saudi Arabia in 2004, and hasn’t stopped being a high-profile journalist. Read this entry
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Explaining disability to those darned kids
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
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SCI Superstar: Ellen Stohl
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
