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  • Reuniting with the Trauma Surgeon Who Saved My Life -- Twice

    May 31st, 2016

    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. Not only did I rely on her, but I easily connected with her and held onto her every word during my 51 days in the Intensive Care Unit at Hackensack University Medical Center. She has that kind of hold on people.

  • Even in a Wheelchair, Everyone Wants to Know What Sport I Play

    May 24th, 2016

    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. I was in no frame of mind to think about shooting hoops or racing in a wheelchair while sprawled out on a hospital bed, a dazed and scrawny paraplegic who couldn’t sit up without help.

  • Thinking About Dad

    Jun 20th, 2015

    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.

  • Attorneys Prioritize Fighting Elder Abuse

    Apr 21st, 2015

    In a national survey of hundreds elder law attorneys across the country conducted in 2014, more than 50% indicated that elder abuse is one of the issues they confront most frequently in their practices.

  • How I “Walked” Across the Stage

    Apr 3rd, 2015

    I amazed the crowd at Sunday’s LeanOnWe Launch Party when I came onto the stage “walking” after 3 ½ years in a wheelchair. It was the first time they had seen me vertical since an out-of-control SUV plowed into my bicycle and left me a paraplegic. So how did I “walk”? Was that robotics?

  • LeanOnWe Launch Party Recap: Part I

    Mar 30th, 2015

    My friend and partner Ron Gold, a paraplegic after an out-of-control SUV rammed into his bicycle three years ago, stunned the crowd at our company’s launch party last night when he “WALKED” across the stage.

  • Should We Move Mom and Dad Back Home?

    Mar 5th, 2015

    To move or not to move? That is the (perennial) question. Mom and Dad retired and joined friends who moved from the cold north winters to warm, dry Arizona. They were healthy and had a good life.

  • Every Morning I Need A Caregiver

    Feb 12th, 2015

    Three years ago an SUV plowed into my bicycle, crushing my spine, leaving me permanently paralyzed. As a result, I can’t get out of bed in the morning by myself — and that’s how LeanOnWe came to be.

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