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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
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SCI Superstar: Mitch Longley
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
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Ready, set, time to get old?
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
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Three amazing wheelchair comics
Three hysterical comedians with spinal cord injuries: Chuck Bittner (pictured), a C5 quad from New Hampshire doing some stinging self-deprecating “wicked” humor and Damon Rozier, a para from NYC, doing a “wheelchair lap dance.” Also watch legendary UK Cockney comic (wc-user from polio), who passed away this spring, Tony Gerrard. Read this entry
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Nope, still can’t get out of chores
Three awesome videos (including a great 9 min one from a sexy European w/ great mirror cleaning tips!) on how to do chores in a wheelchair. Laundry, ironing, mopping, dusting, these cover it all. Read this entry (ps. I’m a clean freak too)
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Snowmobiling – thrilling and easily adapted!
Snowmobiling is one of those things post-injury sports that rules. They already have hand-controls built into them, and almost nothing beats going 60mph on powder in some of the most beautiful scenery you’ve ever been around. Check out these three awesome videos of paraplegics, including “100 mph” Trevor Moen from BC, Canada. Read this entry
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Podcast 92: Damon Boiser – Mahalo is his middle name
In podcast 92, Tiffiny is joined by Damon Boiser, a lifelong resident of Hawaii, who was injured doing what he loves – surfing – 9 years ago. They talk about Damon’s interesting (and sometimes tumultuous) journey to recovery on the Big Island (traveling there from Kauai). And they discuss his discovery and love of three adrenaline-soaring sports that have helped fill the void that surfing left – skydiving, karate and Aikido. He’s the first person to directly land in their wheelchair after a skydive in fact!
