We all ran into the water diving in. As I floated to the surface face down unable to move I knew the blood in the water was mine. I was placed in a halo brace to stabilize quadriplegia. My creative works since have featured in 65 exhibitions around the world "Love the Universe in You" is my latest published book. It was written with a glowing smile. Grab a copy and find your bliss.
We all ran into the water diving in. As I floated to the surface face down unable to move I knew the blood in the water was mine. I was placed in a halo brace to stabilize quadriplegia. My creative works since have featured in 65 exhibitions around the world "Love the Universe in You" is my latest published book. It was written with a glowing smile. Grab a copy and find your bliss.
After losing her brother and becoming a paraplegic in a horrific motor vehicle accident Sarah Casteel has gone on to become a world ranked wheelchair tennis champion. With a mean top-spin backhand the inspiring Sarah Casteel has her eyes set on the London Paralympics 2012.
A Carlos Brooks film released by Magnolia Pictures in 2008, Quid Pro Quo stars Nick Stahl as Isaac Knott, a paraplegic radio reporter who dares follow the beautiful complex Fiona played by Vera Farmiga into the secretive world of self harm through wheelchair envy.
Feminist, author, disability activist, Andrea Rita Dworkin suffered from an agonizing bone disease for many years. She describes her disability with grim humor and shares her worst moments and triumphs in overcoming crippling pain...
Influential Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) painted images of a disabled female body. Striking self portrait’s of her own trauma following a tram car accident in 1925 in which she suffered spinal column and spinal cord injuries. Frida Kahlo paintings and artworks are an artists journey through pain trauma and recovery.
Winner of the Audience Award and the Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992 The Waterdance is a film about coming to terms with paralysis and wheelchair life. Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as each character tries to cope with his new found disability and the problems that go with it, especially Joel, whose lover Anna is having as...
At seventeen Tasha Amadi became a quadriplegic after a diving accident training for a school swimming gala. An avid swimmer and scholar admired by her peers Tasha's world was turned upside down. "The moment I hit the water I couldn't feel my body. I floated around in the water face down, unable to get up. I saw blood in the water (I must have bitten my tongue) and heard my friend telling me to stop messing around and that I wasn't being funny." Her courage and determination saw her complete school with distinctions and go on to inspire all who meet her...
Tim Ward was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident causing complete C5 tetraplegia. Tim spent five weeks in Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before flying home to New Zealand to continue treatment and therapy in the Burwood Spinal Injuries Unit. Tim tells us of life before and after tetraplegia, his future plans, and offers a free ebook written by his mum.
Quadriplegia is caused by injury to the cervical section C1-C7 of the spinal cord. My name is Graham, as a quadriplegic I've learnt a great deal about spinal cord injury paralysis and living life in a wheelchair. The physical emotional and social impact, and coming full circle with what I sometimes call, the gift of my accident. At 26 I knew very little about quadriplegia, that was all about to change.
It Was Mothers Day. Tegan was to visit with her Mum but detoured off road for a bit of "bush bashing" first. "It was fun for a while then things got out of hand. The last thing I remember was my boyfriend yelling at the driver to slow down. I woke up in hospital a C5 paraplegic." Tegan shares her heartbreak upon learning she would never walk again, receiving her first wheelchair and...
Bob Salzman explains how "gimp" is just a word and shares his story of determination to walk independently leaving the wheelchair far behind. Pushing himself through a grueling exercise regime at the local YMCA incredibly Bob's next goal is to run. "I had to believe in myself and believe that I could do more tomorrow than I was doing today...
