“I have the best job ever because I get to cheer people up all day long!” These are the words of Galion, a therapy dog at Shepherd Center in Atlanta. With the help of a clever voice-over to narrate his routine, Galion takes…
Scott’s son Parker sustained a C4/5 spinal cord injury from a diving accident in 2012. Scott reflects on how life after his son’s SCI has both dramatically changed and yet amazingly stayed the same. Scott takes on the role of…
In 1976, an earthquake rattled the city of Tangshan in China. It left 242,769 people dead and 3,817 individuals paralyzed. Gao was living with her family at that time, and they were celebrating her achievement of earning her undergraduate degree just hours…
Pressure sores are a very serious threat for people with spinal cord injuries and other medical conditions where body movement is limited. Sores can develop quickly and can takes months to years to heal, and some sores require surgery to…
In 2004 during a business trip, Kim woke up one morning and her right foot was tingly. Three hours later, she couldn’t move anything below her waist. “I thought I probably had pinched a nerve. I kept expecting my…
Oftentimes, people who live with a disability or who have mobility issues get a case of cabin fever in the winter. Colder, inclement weather makes getting out more difficult, and thus, people sometimes find themselves “stuck inside” with the winter…
Joe has spent the last 40 years working with people with disabilities, providing them with orthotics and prosthetics. So it was a bit of a shock when it was his turn to become the patient. Joe experienced a series of…
“My name is Isabella Kres-Nash, I am a student at Brown University, but I am from Seattle Washington, my pronouns are she-her-hers, and I identify as a multiracial black woman.” This is how Isabella says she introduces herself when speaking…
There’s no doubt that an injury can change perceptions about so many things. One perception that Georgina’s injury changed for her was her body image. Georgina became a T3 paraplegic following a blood clot on her spinal cord, and the effects…
“I had lost the ability to paint with my hands. I had lost the control to do the things that I’d loved.” When she was 20 years old, Mariam was paralyzed from a gunshot. And while she suddenly found herself…