2.5 years ago, I had a near-fatal motorcycle crash. I spent four months in the hospital followed by 15 months in (mostly) and out of a wheelchair. I had 13 surgeries in 18 months. I’ve taught myself to walk again. I’ve gone through bankruptcy, as the only hospital that was …
It took 835 days of recovery from my crash to run again. I had been yearning to run for months. I had tried more than once.
The Labor Day weekend in San Francisco was beautiful. The weather here has been cold this year, and we haven’t broken 70 degrees since July 12. It was in the high sixties and the sky was a gorgeous blue on Sunday, so I decided to spend the day in one …
This morning, I packed up all of the durable medical equipment I have needed to use over the last year, loaded it into a taxi, and brought it to the donation center for Recares in San Francisco. Recares is a wonderful organization in the San Francisco Bay area that redistributes them …
As I’ve been working on some basic outlines and structure for how I intend to proceed with my posts on trauma and recovery, there is one thing I believe to be so critical to successful and strong recovery from trauma that I chose to make it the first piece of …
