Out of Bounds
by Chloe - 15 March 2010
Another tedious skiing adventure from Chloe? Yeah maybe, but I wouldn’t write about it if I didn’t think I had something new to say:
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Hiking Angst
by Chloe - 16 November 2008
The hiking season is over. I have been hiking a great deal this year. One might reasonably ask why a would-be paraplegic is doing so much hiking. The simple answer is that it is something that I greatly enjoy. However, there are deep undercurrents of BIID making this much more complex.
Hiking Angst continues »“From There To Here”
by Chloe - 10 November 2008
It is important to me to try to prepare myself emotionally for becoming paraplegic. I don’t take this lightly. I am not so naive as to imagine that BIID will protect me from grief and depression. Paraplegia is not just sunshine and rainbows. The adjustment will be tough, physically and emotionally. Recently I read a book that helped me work through some of these issues.
“From There To Here” continues »Accepting BIID – two levels
by Sean - 14 March 2007
Continuing on the thought of accepting and coming to grips with not being a paraplegic, I came to realise that there is in fact two levels, two layers to accepting my condition. First, there is the acceptance of the fact that I have BIID. Second, there is accepting that I am not a para.
Accepting BIID – two levels continues »Stuck at the bargaining stage
by Sean - 13 March 2007
Another session with my therapist today. As usual, kinda hesitant, thinking "What’s the point?". But I keep going, because each time it turns out that there are a few insights that come out of it. Today, I put into words the fact that my plate is over-filled with three major issues: transabled stuff, depression stuff, and relationship trouble. It’s nothing new, but putting it that way really seems to clarify the issue for me, in some way. And the other thing was something my therapist mentionned just before the session was ending. She asked me if I was perhaps stuck at the bargaining stage of the "stages of grief".
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