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.
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.
When attempting to rejoin society after tragically similar spinal cord injuries 16 years ago, one would be bitterly failed and the other well served by Australia's disability support system...
A National Disability Insurance Scheme will ease the huge financial cost of living with a disability like spinal cord injury. What if it happened to your son, wife or mother. Could you drop your job put your life on hold and meet their care needs for the rest of their life?"
Life in a wheelchair raises deep heartfelt emotional thoughts and feelings usually kept very secretive. Discover these deep dark secrets and share in the intimate emotional world of wheelchair users, their lovers and those coming to terms with a disability like spinal cord injury. This pictorial of courageous raw wheelchair emotion quotes is inspiring and heart breaking feelings. Expressions from the heart…
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...
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...
Janine Shepherd training for Olympics was hit by a truck causing paraplegia at 24. Her inspirational life story is one of heartache to triumph and achievement. Overcoming spinal injury Janine walked down the isle, had childen, obtained a pilots license, had several books published and now works as a motivational speaker...
