Conquering Life

Over the past couple months I’ve read several questions by fellow quadriplegics at the CareCure and Apparelyzed Spinal Cord Injury forums about what mouse to use and how to set it up to work best for a quadriplegic.  Not saying that my setup is the absolute best or anything, but Read More

Since writing the article “How I Broke My Neck and Became Quadomated” 10 days ago I’ve received a couple messages from folks telling me they think about my injury every time they ski, how they’re more scared of skiing now, and take it easier on the hill.  I’ve thought about Read More

WOW!  Simply overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support since I wrote about how I broke my neck last week.  I can’t get over the number of people far and wide who have read this post and reconnected with me.  Almost like all the most wonderful people in my life digitally Read More

I’ve been struggling with whether I should write this or not over the past couple weeks.  I think most people are curious about the details behind my whole skiing injury, but if I put it down in writing would it be too much?  Back and forth I’ve gone, until finally making up my Read More

Without a doubt the highlight of Caleb the Super Dog’s day (duh… obviously other than hanging out with me!) is when mom comes home from work and he gets to do his favorite trick in the whole world… Get mommy’s slippers! You see, he loves this trick not only because he’s being Read More

Hey there friends, family, cci folks, technology geeks… anyone who is following along with Quadomated.  Please go on over to the newly created Quadomated Facebook page and like it!  This should make it way easier for anyone interested in Quadomated to follow along with all my Read More

This might come as a surprise to some of you, but life as a quadriplegic ain’t always full of fairytales and picnics.  Don’t get me wrong, I definitely have more than my share of awesome days and love life, and all that good stuff, but sometimes when I get sick it just really Read More

The Presque Isle Community Center is a project I have worked on closely over the past many months and something I think is hugely important to our community.  Looking back through my lifetime of growing up in Presque Isle I can think of no place I further enjoyed or had a larger Read More

I had a really funny/awesome encounter with an adorable little girl and her mommy while cruising around the grocery store with Caleb yesterday.  The kid was in the driver’s seat, sitting in the bottom of one of those race car like grocery carts (what did I say… KIDS LOVE RACE Read More

Tune in to the 10 AM Sesame Street Episode, “Brandeis is Looking for a Job” about service dogs this morning!  One of Caleb’s CCI classmates and best buds will be showing the furry stuffed animals how it’s done. Here’s a little sneak peek of the song “Life as a Servi Read More