It has been more than 3 years since I’ve seen the trauma surgeon who saved my life -- not once, but twice. In the first few months following the bicycling accident that left me a paraplegic, she was the thread that held it all together.
From the moment I arrived at the rehab hospital to learn how to live with paralysis, people were asking me what sort of adaptive sport I’d get involved in. Though it seemed like a given to everyone else, for me it was anything but.
This Thanksgiving weekend marked the 4th anniversary of my near-death accident when an out-of-control SUV with a sleeping driver barreled into my bicycle.
In the true spirit of the season, LeanOnWe is showing its appreciation not only with words, but with deeds by giving to the Wounded Warrior Project.
This Father’s Day will be the second without my father following his passing last May. Like most children who have lost a parent, I think of him frequently.
I amazed the crowd at Sunday’s LeanOnWe Launch Party when I came onto the stage “walking” after 3 ½ years in a wheelchair.
I can’t get out of bed in the morning by myself — and that’s how LeanOnWe came to be.