As a teenager, all Syahidah Alim ever wanted was to join in a campfire and enjoy the wild outdoors. Normally an activity where children learn to test their own limits, Syahidah first had to deal with those who placed external…
Caregivers’ lives are filled with demands. They must juggle many responsibilities day after day, and this constant barrage can oftentimes leave caregivers feeling frazzled. Harriet is a health and wellness writer, and she is also a caregiver to her husband,…
Have you ever been wheeling yourself to your gate in an airport and find yourself face to face with an escalator? What do you do? Do you find and wait for an elevator? Or do you wheel aboard and take…
Love is in the air for Australian couple Perry and Susie. The pair were married in a secret ceremony in 2016 on Susie’s birthday after they dated for two years. Perry is a quadriplegic who sustained a spinal cord injury…
Erik is a T4-5 paraplegic who uses a manual wheelchair, and he lives in an area where snow is common in the winter. Standard wheelchair tires can often slip and slide on ice and completely lose traction when trying to…
When a spinal cord injury happens, relationships often change. And sometimes getting through those changes can be a challenge. Nancy Rosenberg, a clinical psychologist at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital talks about the kinds of changes couples often experience in their relationship…
Meg is a quadriplegic with no finger movement and limited hand and arm movement, and she demonstrates the tricky task of putting on nylon socks. Meg says she prefers socks over pantyhose because the socks are much easier to get…
Meg has made a batch of funeral potatoes, and now it’s time for her to bake them in the oven. Meg is a quadriplegic with limited hand function, and she uses a manual wheelchair. She demonstrates how she preheats the…
Bernard, who experienced a spinal cord injury followed by a double leg amputation as a result of a sky diving accident in 2012, is heading into his second semester at Colorado State University’s Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program. He is…
By the time she turned 22, Shannon had traveled to 12 different countries. To say she is an experienced world traveler is a bit of an understatement. With all those miles under her belt, Shannon has come up with four…