It Sucks!
August 1, 2023
There’s a story about your disabled life that you tell other people and a story you tell yourself. You don’t go around telling others how... Read MoreOur blog offers stories from the community, updates from the Reeve Foundation, and breaking news on research.
The opinions expressed in these blogs are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
July 7, 2023
I was out in my front yard trimming the hedge the other day, just snip-snip-snipping away, lost in time and space. Out of the corner of my eye I see... Read MoreJune 20, 2023
Some problems attendants to a lifetime of paralysis are difficult, frustrating, painful, and demoralizing. But many chronic problems have simple... Read MoreJune 1, 2023
I grew up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma and still keep in touch with many of my high school classmates. Unfortunately, much of the news is... Read MoreApril 29, 2023
I am not the oldest para I know by a long shot – as many readers are quick to remind me – but I have been around the barn enough times to see how... Read MoreApril 6, 2023
One thing that has come back to me lately is that I have never gotten truly angry or enraged about this awful, monumentally unfair paralysis scourge... Read MoreMarch 22, 2023
My wife is in her eighth month of treatment for breast cancer which includes a mastectomy, many chemotherapy sessions, and a six-week radiation... Read MoreMarch 14, 2023
Early on in my paralyzed life, I developed a problem wound/ulcer on the most obvious place in the world, the coccyx or tailbone. I began to visit a... Read MoreFebruary 23, 2023
Social media, that two-faced ghoul, has accelerated to hyper speed a habit Americans were already addicted to: lists. Lists use much less brain power... Read MoreThe opinions expressed in these blogs are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.