Find Inspiration in Unexpected Places: Wheelchair-Users Showing Us What's Possible!
It's amazing what representation can do to a person. Recognizing yourself in a public figure can uplift and inspire. I've experienced...
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The Unseen Consequences of COVID-19: Medical Supply Shortages - A Personal Story
Most of the time I don’t let spinal cord injury related problems get to me. Some problems don't seem big but the butterfly effect is...
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Exploring the Possibilities of Curing Paralysis: A Journey from Fear to Hope
As a child, I feared a future where chips were implanted in people, as seen in movies where AI or robots took over the world. Today...
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Finding Love and Acceptance in a Wheelchair: A Journey of Self-Discovery
I remember after a month, still laying in the hospital bed I told my father I thought I would be forever alone. He said 'If I would meet...
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What living with a Spinal Cord Injury
Not knowing what a SCI truly meant, I've found out the hard way. Before I got injured I've never had any health problems. The life...
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Topsport
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has devastating consequences for the physical, social and vocational well-being of the injured person....
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The airplane experience
A year ago I travelled for the first time by airplane since being in a wheelchair. The first time it was a short flight of 2 hours and I...
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Prevention
To prevent is better than to cure. It's a Dutch saying and I try to keep it in mind when I order water instead of alcohol or when I...
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Still Single (& Disabled)
"But you're too pretty to be in a wheelchair" is a comment I often hear. Having a disability is linked to being unattractive, sick or...
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You Are what you Like
Doesn't it seem like everybody is wanting to be like someone else these days. And mostly just famous because of status or money. Open...
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Desexualized
I’m a wheelchair user now. Not by choice. Accidents happen. I got used to using the wheels, but my environment didn’t. Accessibility...
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I want to Walk Again
Since exo-skeletons are very expensive, starting at 90.000 euros, it's not some amount (most) people just have. So what would you do?...
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The Bright Side Of being disabled
There must be some positive side to this all. Yes, of course! I believe there is. Being disabled is not always bad. Here is why. Number 1:...
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